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c ADVERTISING IP YOU ARE HUSTLER I l "V T7 IS TO BUSINESS 1 1 T STEAM JS TO- Machinery, ,1 T I'l. 'I'iM IN0 VUWY.V. Si'1' , ,, ., nico advertisement about ' . ' '. !,,.'- and in.-ert it in XKS DEMO CK AT, .r. a change in business, all PROFESSIONAL. - (1 ii I tOW'KbL, coriior Xcw Hotel, Main -ft1' - .il.AND XKf'K, X. C. M-. ;,vs at his ofliee when not ,W engaged elsewhere U 2G lv y-i A NIC WHITEHEAD, 0 0li;,.o X,ih cornci- New Hotel, Main direct. S oTI-ANO Xi:cK,rX. C. v;i found at his office when r,,t j,r. .fi--K '!i;il lv engaged eiHiieiy. 7 C lv i; c. UYERMOX, 0rn, ,-( )ver J. I). Kay's store. fi'iico li1 nrs from '.Mo 1 o'clock; 2 to ;,V...-k. p.m. -t ( TLAXD XECK. X. C. D AVID HELL, Attorney at Law, EX EI ELD, X. C. - I'r:i-lic in all the Courts of Hali fax -i'id adjoining counties and m the s,n,ifrnc and Federal Courts. Claims Hhrted iu all parts of the State. P. 8 lv W A. Dl'NX. I t f T O ? X E Y-A T-L A W. S uTl.AXO Xl' K, X. C. Practices wherever his services are 0 11, V. J. WAUIL Surereon Dentist, Enfield, X'. C. O.iire over Harrison's Drug Store. If 7 ly lVAlM L. TRAVIS, Atlnrney and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, X. G. "lf.,,M' Tjntiud on Fanii Land. 2-2 1-1 v ti K r .EVANS, GF.N EltAL CAREEXTEIv. A specialty of Bracket and Scroll v.- rk .f all kinds. Work done cheap ;itrl every piece guaranteed. i 7 lv Scotland Xeck, X. C. -NEW- Jewelry Store Af:or-i' years experience, I feel thor-"'i-rliiv competent to do all work that is expected of a WATCHMAKER and JEWELER. 1 a'o carry a full line of Vv'A'IVUF.s, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, MFsic.VL INSTRUMENTS AND FANCY GOODS. Spectacles and l rtZ Eye Classes Properly l T Fitted to the Eye. l "is Stasia! Sewing Mm THE REST ON EARTH. FAY I Xf; MACHINES CLE AXED AM) REPAIRED. SAT! -'ACTION, GUARANTEED. II'. II. JOHNSTON, A-; h,i.l, ,,. (o entrance. 10 0 Gm. NOW ON 1IAXD. WILL SELL THEM ('HEAT. IyAlso will take contract to 25"unii -h lots trom 50,000 or mi, re anywhere within &&K miles of Scotland Xeck want. Correspond-jgjl f i'"c and orders sohcited.f &. A. MADDRY, l-lu-tc-iy Scotland Xeck, X. C. MENTION THIS TAPER. 1111111 BRICK ! LD N E W S I ' A P A RS FOR SALE, 10 eta. per hundred. HE E. E. MILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XI. RE &2L The Old Friend And the best friend, that never fail3 you, is Simmons Liver Regu lator, (the Red Z) that's what you hear at the mention of tlii.3 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 take3 the place of Quinine and Calomel. It acts directly on the Liver, Kidney3 ami 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. S-KVKIIY PACKAGE-S5 Han the V' Stamp In red on uiappcr. J. II. ZKIL.1N & CO., I'hiladelchia, Pa. NEVER TOO LATE. It is too late ! Ah, nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to pal pitate. Cato learned Greek at eighty ; Sopho cles Wrote his grand "CEdipus ;" and Si- monides Bore off the prize of verse from his compeers When each had numbered more than four-score years ; And Theophrastus at fourscore and ten Had but begun his "Characters of Men Chaucer, at Woodstock with the night ingales. At sixty wrote "The Canterbury tales ;" Goethe, at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed "Faust" when eighty years were past. These are indeed exceptions ; but they show How far the Gulf Stream of our youth mav flow Into the artic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself sur vives. New York Christian Advocate. Had Need of a Tiger. Selected. At a sale of animals from Ilarnum'a ippodrome in Bridgeport, says Life, a ger was being offered. The highest bid was made by a man who was a tranger, and to him it was knocked down. Darnum, who had been eyeing the stranger uneasily during the bid ding, then went up to him and said : l'ardon me tor asking the question, iut will you tell me where you are from ?" "Down South a bit," responded the man. "Are you connected with any show?" "No." "And are you buying this animal for ourself?"' "Yes." Barnum shifted about for a few mo ments, looking alternately at the man and the tiger, evidently trying his best to reckon the two together. "Now, young man," he finally said, "you need not take this animal unless you want to, for there are those here who will tate it off your hands." "I don't want to sell," was the quiet reply. Then Barnum said in desperation: "What on earth are you going to do with such an ugly beast, if you have no show of your own, and are not buy ing for some one who is a showman?" "Well, I will tell you," said the pur chaser, "my wife died about three weeKS ago. We had lived together for ten years, and then 1 missed her." He paused to wipe his eyes and steady his voice, and then added, "So I have bought this tiger." "I understand you," said the great showman, in a husky voice, as he turn ed awav to hide his emotion. All Free. Those who have used Dr. Kings Xew Discovery know its value, and those who have not, have now the opportunity to try it Free. Call on the advertised Druggist and get a Trial iiii (,.a. sionri vnnr name and ad- tt v 7nkiPn & Co.. Chicago, and get a sample dox oi xjv. - , 1 1 . n rrTW i r T .. Vinir u Xew Life Fills Free, as wen as wlv TTnilth nnd Household In- IJl VIU1UC IU ' ' structor, Free. All of which is guar i An vo i n-ood and cost you nothing at E. T. Whitehead & Cos SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1895. A 1TLW CEOP. How the Young Faanier Got Out o The But. Youth's Companion. A young farmer in the Southwest, having come into possession of a small plantation through the death of his fa ther, determined to introduce some rad ical changes. The farm had not been profitable for several years. His father had borrowed money of merchants and put every acre into cotton, buying his food supplies and running every year more deeply into debt. The son was anxious, as he said, "to get out of the rut." He decided to abandon cotton-planting, and to raise strawberries and other fruit on a large scale, and, so far as pos sible, to make a living from his farm by producing his own food supplies. He began with a few acres of strawber ries, and put the remainder of his land in corn, oats, grass, potatoes and vege tables, increasing his supply of poultry and pork. All his. neighbors remonstrated with him. A Southern planter, they said, who did not raise cotton, but devoted his energies to small fruit and "truck ing," would be of no account socially, while inviting financial ruin. The young farmer was warned that in breaking the customs and traditions of the cotton belt he was lowering his dig nity and degrading himself to the level of "the poor white trash." One critic was even more outspoken. He was the father of the young woman whom the young farmer had been courting, and who was engaged to him. "You're acting like a lunatic "growl ed this veteran. "What can you do without a cash crop like cotton ? Where can you find a market for your straw berries? You are as mad as a March hare !" "The finest varieties of berries will grow here to perfection. I can make arrangements to send them by rail north, where I shall be ahead of the season, and also south for tne latest va rieties when the home crop is exhaust ed. As for cotton, it is impoverishing the planters here, as you well know. Why should I raise cotton without profit for the sake of what you call so cial prestige?" "Well, sir," was the angry reply, "it you are bent upon going on with your crazy schemes, you shall not drag down my daughter with you. She is a cot ton planter's daughter, and shall not be a truck-farmer's wife." As the daughter sided with the fath er, the engagement was broken off. The young man. undismayed by the disap proval of his neighbors, carried out his plans with resolute determination. The experiment was successful. He was obliged to be patient as Avell as determined, and tne result was that he was soon obliged to double his straw berry acreage. He then introduced raspberries as a crop to follow the straw berries. The result has been that he found his profits warranted the purchase of another farm, and the enlargement of his fruit business. Meanwhile the planters around him were many of them impoverished by the low prices tor cotton. The veteran who had called him a lunatic was re duced to such straits that one or two ot his children went into the fruit-farm er's fields to pick strawberries in their season for the wages they might receive. Every one now is convinced that there was method in the young planter's mad ness. Free Pills. Send your address to H. E. Bucklen & Co., Chicagornd get a free sample box of Dr. King's X'ew Life Fills. A trial will convince you of their merits. These pills are easy in action and are particularly effective in the cure of con stipation and Sick Headache. For Malaria and Liver troubles they have been proved invaluable. They are guaranteed to be perfectly free from every deleterious substance and to be purely vegetable. They do not weak en by their action, but by giving tone to stomach and bowels greatly invigo rate the system. Regular size 25c. per box. Sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co., druggist. "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. Ferret Els 0m ITanie. Srlected. Some of the most amusing stories of the tricks of memory are thofo which illustrate the facility with vhich proj er names escape the recollecaon. They elude you like greaed pigs "Then I had it on the end of my ibrgue," and, "I recall your face, but ior the life of me I can't place you," arc t-t common ly heard as to eicite no comment. "By the way, how do you spell jour name?" inquired a youn?Tady of an old acquaintance. She took thia way of recalling, without embarassment, a name that unaccountably escaped her recollection. "S-m-l-t-h," he replied to hej confusion. It Is related of Joe Jefferson that he was one day introduced to General Grant, an event that naturally impress ed him strongly. Later in the day, ac cording to the Xew York Hail and Ex press, he got into an elevator of the hotel at which they were both stopping. A short, heavy set man also got in, lift ed his hat to Jefferson and made some remark. "I beg your paidon. Your face is familiar to me, but I cannot re call the name," said the actor. Gener al Grant courteously gave his name, "I got off at the next floor for fear I should ask him if he had ever been in the war," Jefferson said, in relating the story. Worse than that, he once forgot his own name. He had gone into a post office at some small resort wiere he was unknown and asked the clerk if there was any mail for him. "What's the name !" asked the clerk. "Xame? Oh, yes, certainly. Why, let's see ! I play Rip Van Winkle, you know." "Jeffer son," said the astonished and delighted clerk. "Yes, Jefferson, thanks," he answered politely, as he received his mail and bowed himself out. A Cheerful Face. Selected. There is no greater every day virtue than cheerfulness. This quality in man among men is like sunshine to the day, or gentle renewing moisture to parched herbs. The light of a cheerful face diffuses itselt and commu nicates the happy spirit that inspires it. The sourest temper must sweeten in the atmosphere ot continuous good humor. As well might fog and cloud and vapor hope to cling to the sun-illumined landscape, as the "blues" and moroseness to combat jovial speech and exhilarating laughter. Be cheerful always. There is no path but will be easier traveled, no load bvit will be lighter, no heart or brain but will lift sooner in the presence of a determined cheerfulness. It may at times seem difficult for the happiest tempered to keep the countenance of peace and content, but the difficulty will vanish when we truly consider that sullen gloom and passionate depair do nothing but multiply thorns and thick en sorrows. Ill comes to us providen tially as good, if we rightly apply its lessons. Giants of Their Kind. Exchange. The largest bell in Japan, is that in the temple at Kiota, it is 24 feet high and 10 feet in diameter across the rim. The largest bunch of grapes of which there is any record was picked at San Jose, Cal., in September, 1886. It weighed 16 pounds. The highest chimney in the world is at Glasgow, Scotland ; height 474 feet. The deepest coal mine in Europe is at Lambert, Belgium ; depth 3,400 feet The highest price paid for a modern painting was $110,600 for Millet's "An gelas." The highest monument in the world is Washington's at Washington, D. C. ; height 555 feet. The largest landed estate is that of the Czar Xicholas of Russia ; 100,000, 000 acres. The largest landed estate In Great Britain Is that of the Duke of Suther land ; 1,358,000 acres. The largest bronze statue is that of Peter the Great, at St. Petersburg; weight 1,000 tons. The largest library is in Paris, the Xational ; containing 2,200,000 volumes The deepest artesian well is at Pesth, Hungary ; depth 8,l40feet. MOCR Curing the Blues. Youth's Coinjmnion. People who are mbiect to "thicVi corning fancies" that trouble the brain and weigh upon the he.iu chouid he-d the prescription of the docu.r in "Mni" beth" : "Therein the patient nui-i minister to himself."' The blue are to be cured not by drug', pre-criU-d by a quack, but by the personal t niggle of the nffiicted one. llarj.rr' Ilazar td of the struggles or "bluish" people id different sorts and conditions, from which a sufferer may choose a remedy to his own case : "I take a walk," said one young wom an, vigorous of mind and body. "If the trouble comes from indigestion, as it usually does, there is nothing like a ten-mile tramp to put your internal or gans to rights." The reply of a Boston maiden may be deemed characteristic : "I sit down to the hardest mathematical ptoblem that I can find." "I go into one of the alcoves in the reading room," said another, the pos sessor of that Boston patent of nobili y a share in the Athena-num, "with the new magazines or a pile of local histo ries." "I suppose the saintly-minded would say that the best plan is to go to ee some one who is worse off than your self," said a young woman of feeble constitution, but brilliant mental en dowments. "I only add this misery to mine, and the sum total is suicidal. I just think, kit isn't illness and it isn't death ; nothing else matters.' Or I try to bring m3'self to the admirable frame of mind that Dolly Madison attained at eighty : 'My dear, when you have reached my age, you will learn that nothing matters.' " "I sweep my room," said an energet ic little housewife, "usually to the in dignation ot the maid, who has just completed the same task." Perhaps the best suggestion of all came from the tired little bookkeeper : "I try to do something for some body else." For, as the Salvation Army sister phrased it, "Ii you make other people 'appy, you've a 'appiness in your 'art that don't come in no other wav." She Only "Wanted to Know. It was a little, dried-up, stoop-shouldered, thick-lipped, white-eved black woman who went into a big dry goods emporium the other day and said to the affable floor-walker as he met her at the door : "Got any yarn knittin' thread?" "Yes, step this way, please." "Wait a minute, honey," said the old woman, grabbing the floor-walker by the coat tails, much to the amuse ment of all the idle clerks, who legan to gather around to see the fun. "I ain't ax you y it. Got any pins an' cotton stripes, an' silk dresses, an' bleeched termestic, an' blue ribbon, an' piller cases, an' undershirts, an' sewin' machines, an' bustles, an' crimp in' pins, an' table colors, an'-an' " "Step this way and I will show you what we have," interposed the floor walker, thinking she was about to break down, but ?he had only paiif-ed for breath. "What mek you won't lemme ax A'OU what I wants?" she went on. "Got any cookin' stoves, an' lace cur tains, an' lam chimblies, an' carpets, an' chany cups, an' hairth brooms, an' pitcher frames, an' writm' pajer, an' kid gloves, an' head hankohers, an " "Step this way." "Walt jess a minute, chbe, tell deed' (oman jdt3 th'ough, can't you? I d'want to look at nothin' tal to-day. What I ax you, is you got 'em?" "Yes." "Well, now dat's what I wanter git at. Whyncher say so fust, den I wouldn't be here pesterin' you so long. You see, its disser way. De ol' man come home tother night and fotch me a speckle pullet, an' when Spring 'gin to open dat pullet jess nachelly gwine tart to lay, ain't she? Well, dat's huc huccome I come here axin' you what you got so's I'll know what to sject fer dem aigs when I fetch cm to town, dat's all." AT. SUBSCRIPTION PRICK S i oo. NO. 23 Suffered for Twelve Years. liulii, N. V. ; ifvu-vij- a brt rrrflo wie w-ta ru- tul pron;j.ta em to nu jtu. 1 r,t t atfrri trwt- if. fnta I tr. In Urtmf.gr. torot tJ t up frr ir. rfar. n-tjiii to ,Jk, ffitv month' ir-ttitit itti four l.clof 'Jrrr' '. Mrv Wno Arr cniLn. t."n- 1 '""- oll-nt health. I woull. to h- Uo in wt rrve. arvi my little chu.ir. n nn.thr hU It nut fiw ..u nt! rnvir nti. Ims J wiu rrviiiwuM)U )uur lur-'u lii lonjr as I lire. If any on doubt thia. (tire xnj name an 3 addn-fl. Yours alnotn ly, Mai. MALVINA WILSON'. 10 MORE EYE-GLASSES CO WEAI l!ME 0JS EYES. MITCHELL'S ve-Salve Certain. Safe, and F.frertlre Kmelr for SORE, WEAK, & INFLAMED EYES, .. Producing Long-Sigfitedness. A ?sfor ing th Sight of th Old. Corel TeirDropt, Granulation Styt Tumors, Red Eyes, Matted Eye Lath ft, in worms qnci kelief us rtiintn ctu. Also, equally efflc-aclnue when ua1 In other CialadlM, eurh llrere. Frftr Mere. Tamore, Hlt Khrin, llama, Pllra, of Wherrrrr Inflammation exiata, M ITCUHL.lt B 0JL.I VK way be nael to advantage. 8ld br mil Dr acetate at tf 3 Ccate. - 7 12 ly -thi:- Hew Drug Store, IS A. JL V We invite the attention of the pie of Ser Hand Nock and surrounding country to mir Mock and roa-ona hie prices. Wo, carry a well MdccMiJ stock of Dris, Patent Medicines, Chemicals, Perfumery, Toilet Article We make a specialty of Physicians' Prescriptions, Which are filled by our Mr. M. TJ henny, a druggist of over !'" umi- cv perieiK ; in the husincsx. I'omc :iud see us. Ko.sjK'ctfii!! v. 1 21 tf SroTI.ANlt Nm K II.T. 'o. MENTION" H 11 I'AI KIi. Southern Hotel, HALIFAX, N. C Kikst Class A ( o.mmoi.ation- jop Tin: Vrv.uc The Fn,e Th j;,,t Tl Mnrbt Arn.rd, Mrs. C. P. Tn.i .Knv. - Man.i -ci . Mks. John H. J'iani.i:. 2 '2 :irn w 1 ) x V- V. t 1 h- S oo r-l P in y. o CD r-r- GO 52! H 2 o' P Si - 2 o o ic ! 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