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E. E. MILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor
VOL. XI.
"EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO.
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PROFESSIONAL.
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DTLA Xl NECK. X. C,
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AVID 15HLL,
Attorney at Law,
ENFIELD, X. C.
:Piu-ti'-c in all the Courts of Halifax-
;ml .adjoining counties and in the
supreme and Federal Courts. Claims
ciilrrted in all parts of the State.
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Practice- wherever his service are
re jiiircd.
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t. V. J. "WARD,
Surgeon Dentist,
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OlTi.-e over Harrison's Drug Store.
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DWARD L. TRAVIS,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
HALT FAX, X. C.
3r. !"., I.onnnl on Fa r in Lands.
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A ;eoialty of Bracket ;md Scroll
wr.rk uf all kinds. Work done cheap
and every piece guaranteed.
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Scotland X'eck, X". C.
Aftcr i x year- experience, I feel thor
oiiudily competent to do all work
that is exected of n
"ATCHMA KEIi and JEWELER.
1 al" carry a full line of
BATCHES, CLOCKS, J E WELTI Y,
MI'SICAL IXSTRUvMEXTS AXD
FANCY GOODS.
Spectacles and X
Eve Classes Properly Zjl
T Fitted to the Eye. l
Ti3 hM Sewing Mm
THE REST OX EARTH.
SEWlXf; MACHINES ('LEANED
AXD REPAIRED.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
IF. H. JOHNS TOX,
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WILL SELL THEM CHEAP.
?Also will take contract to
t?"fnrnisli mts from 50,000
or more anv where within
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MKXTIOX THIS TAI'ER.
LI XEWSPAPARS FOR SALE,
40 ct. per hundred.
Jewelry Store
or
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A 1TLW SWINDLE.
which the people of the South
are resenting, is the efforts of
Borne to sell them imitations for
the real Simmons Liver Regu
lator, because they make more
money by the imitation ; and
they care little that they swindle
the people in selling them an
inferior article. It's the money
they are after, and the people can
look out for themselves. Now
this is just what the people are
doing, and merchants are having
a hard time trying to get people
to take the stuff they offer them
in place of Simmons Liver Reg
ulator which is the "King of
Liver Medicines," because it never
fails to give relief in all liver
troubles. Be sure that you get
Simmon3 Liver Regulator. You
know it by the same
old stamp &m of the Red
Z on the I jKP package.
It has y&gmM never fail
ed you, ifllgjySa an(l people
who have been per
suaded to take something else have
always come back again to The
Old Friend. Better not take any
thing else but that made by J. H.
Zeilin & Co., Philadelphia.
IF EVERY DAY WERE MAY-UAY.
If every day were May-Day
With flowers all ablow
And in the very hey-day
Of loveliness aglow,
If every day were May-Day
With bird song everywhere.
And every day a gay day
Without a sign of care,
If the snn were always shining
In a sky forever blue,
We all would fall a pining
For clouda of sombre hue ;
We'd tire of endless May-Day
And gins lorever bright
And hail a restful gray day
AVitn unalloyed delight
And though we ask thee yet to pause
Thou fairest of the year,
We love thee all the more because
Thou art not always here.
Marco Morrow.
For Johnny's Mother.
Selected.
If you would letian Johnny's repect,
don't allow him to get the idea that lie
must show more politness to a strang
er than he does to vou. Good manners
is not something that is put on and off
like a Sunday garment. Johnny must
make them a part of JTmself, or they
do him little good and you little credit.
A great deal has been said recently
about deceiving children, but not too
much, for many parents good people
too think nothing of telling their lit
tle ones little '-white lies." Don't do
it, as you value your child's future.
Don't be afraid to let Johnny have
all the fresh air he can possibly get.
Johnny's little sister, too, needs
plenty of out-door exercise, and can
not grow up into the healthy woman
you want her to be, unless she gets it.
Remember that Johnny's sleeping
room indeed every sleeping room in
the house needs an abundance of
fresh air. Arrangements should be
made to allow a little outside air into
the rooms at all times.
Provide a separate bed for Johnny ;
don't allow him to sleep with other
children or with older persons.
Johnny's mmrt is very susceptible to
impressions. A wise mother can
mould it. or at least direct it in the
right way. You can interest him in
the good, the beautiful and the true if
you will only take the pains and use
your womanly tact.
Don't, in your efforts to make a nice
boy of Johnny, make him a prig.
Teach him to be kind and gentle with
out being effeminate to be courageous
for the right, without being "preachy ;"
and in all things to be noble and hon
orable. Care of Poultry.
If you wish the poultry to be profita
ble, they must have the best care. That
is one reason why so many farmers can
not make their fowls pay. They al
low them to '-rough it," and then com
plain if they do not get good returns,
(food houses, good feeding and good
care speak for themselves, and the more
exact we are in this attention, the bet
ter will the results be. If farmers,
when they seem inclined to complain
about the unprofitableness of their
hens, would first examine the treat
ment they are living them probably
they might not have so much to say on
the subject.
SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1895.
A Y I D E -S PR E D EVIL.
AIT EARNEST PROTEST AGAI1TST
A GREAT AND GROWING
BAD PRACTICE.
Little Respect fsr Anthcrity.
II? v. J. T. Albritton in Xeu Ob-i rvr.
This writer desires to say, by way of
preface, that he is a little member of
that political party which has been re
ported, for some months past, as being
thoroughly dead, and that he never has
been, and never expects to be, in affili
ation with any other political organiza
tion. It has been said that the dead
party first killed itself by its own inter
nal dissensions ; then the surviving
parties combined and killed it again,
and they keep on killing it, through
fear of its revivification.
If the report concerning the party's
death be true, then I must be dead al
so ; yet, I am conscious of a strong in
clination to give expression to some
thoughts upon a wide-spread evil of
our times. I, therefore, rise to ask
of the editor a little space for a few
words.
By the way, this reminds me of the
amusing predicament m which the late
Dr. C. F. Deems once found himself.
The sad news of Ghost Eliot's death
having reached him, he eat down in
his New York sanctum and wrote quite
a complimentary obituary of his de
ceased friend, in which he stated that
the old gentleman not only made free
use of the interrogation point, but bore
a striking resemblance, in his physique,
to that crooked punctuation mark.
Mr. Eliot enjoyed a privilege denied to
mo; men the privilege of reading his
own obituary ; and after reading it, he
affirmed that, when he saw the Doctor
again he would get eyen with him and
let him know that the wasn't dead at
all.
If the warfare among the political
parties must go on, I insist in the
name of patriotism and humanity, that
it shall be conducted on a higher
plane. We are drifting towards the
savagery of wild beasts, by injecting
into our political discussions an ever
increasing superabundance of sharp
and offensive personalities. Even
our religious controversies are not free
from this grievous fault. Cannot men
differ in religion or politics, without
exhausting the vocabulary of bitter in
vective and low billingsgate in their
abuse of one another? We have be
come so afflicted with the evil eye,
that we can see nothining good or
praiseworthy in a political opponent.
We magnify the wrong he does, and if
we cannot deny or disprove" his noble,
generous deeds, we will at least seek to
besmirch them by putting bad motives
behind them.
A still greater evil, however, is the
unreasonableness and injustice that
characterize our criticism of public offi
cers. Did the Apostle Peter look down
through the centuries upon our age,
when hfc wrote the words, "they are
not afraid to speak evil of dignities?"
Surely the words aptly describe many
of our speakers and writers. To the
speakers there come intervals of rest
which they devote to the cultivation
of peace and good will among men ;
but for the writers, as for the wicked,
there seems to be neither rest nor
peace.
The careless and reckless manner in
which we have spoken and written
concerning our public officers has
borne much bad fruit already, and will
bear much more hereafter. Public
officers are God's ministers, and we owe
it to God and our country to respect
their persons for the sake of their offi
cial positions, and to be just and tem
perate in our criticisms of their official
acts.
Because of honest difference of opin
ion among our representatives, as well
as among ourselves, upon great finan
cial questions, our last Congress fell
short of what we desired or hoped for
in the matter of wise legislation. We,
therefore, began the work ot vitupera
tion, and carried it on, through the
press, on the stump, at the cross-roads,
by the fire-side, ail over the country,
until great public men, whose names
! Lad once l,een Jiousehold word among
j us, were rendered despicable in the eves
of thousands of our people. That great
and good man, Dr. John A. Droadus, a
little before his death, said of the re
proaches cast upon our last Congress.
"The most painful thing u, it destroys
all reverence lor tho-e CM has place 1
in authority over us. It is undermin
ing the very foundation.- of our gov
ernment." Much has been said about our last
State Legislature much more than
should have been said. Some of our
representatives in that body may have
been bad or -incompetent men ; some
of the laws enacted may not be wise or
beneficial, certainly, they are not in
accord with my views or those of many
of my fellow-citizens ; but I believe
there were in the General As-embly
many men of honest purpose to do the
right. They were not thieves and cut
throats of alien birth, but men "to the
manor born," and recognized as men
of honor and integrity where they were
reared. They were backed by the best
constituency on the face of the earth ;
for I verily believe that the rural pop
ulation of North Carolina are the best
people in the world. Ilight or wrong
politically, they are the best people we
have. Both our representatiyea and
their constituences may, under bad
leadership, have gone wrong politically.
But I believe the greater part of them
were honest and conscientious. The
end they sought was relief from finan
cial depression ; the means they adopt
ed were, in the judgement of many of
us, unwise and unfortunate. If our
people ever become again unified, as
they once were, let me say this happy
consummation will be reached by oth
er means than ridicule and sarcasm.
It strikes me as a piece of policy to
charge the last Legislature with favor
ing miscegenation. Probably there
was not a single representative that
favored this abomination. If there
was one, he would be repudiated by
his constituency, it known to be such.
As for the so-called assignment law,
ijo political party approves the thing,
and none should be held responsible
for it. Find out. if possible, the sharp,
unprincipled person or pesons who per
petrated this fraud upon our people,
and punish them to the full extent of
the law.
But let me emphasize the flagrant
wrong of epeaking evil of our civil offi
cers, and thus degrading them in the
eyes of the masses. When we have led
our people to have no respect for those j
whom we have chosen by our suffrages j
to make, interpret, and execute our
laws, they will have no respect for the
laws themselves. Every man will be a
law unto himself, and this country will
relapse into a state of wild anarchy.
Dr. Adam Clark never spoke wiser
or truer words than when he said :
"Behave respectfully to men in office ;
if you cannot even respect the man (for
an important office may be filled by an
unworthy person) respect his office. If
a man habituate himself to disrespect
official characters, he will soon find
himself disposed to pay little respect or
obedience to the laws themselves."
But let a greater than Adam Clarke
speak. Paul the Apostle, under great
provocation, applied to Annanias, a
cruel and avaricious man, the oppro
brious epithet, "whited wall." Upon
being reminded that he was addresaing
the head of the Jewish court, Paul said,
'T wist not, brethren, that he was
the high priest : for it is written, Thou
shalt not speak evil of the ruler of Un
people." This corrupt official deserved
the epithet ; yet we infer from Paul's
language, that he would not have ap
plied it to him, had he known, or been
mindful of thefact that Annanias was
the high priest. He would have res
pected the person, for the sake of the
office.
Let no man think that I am fight
ing a man of straw. I could fill every
page of this newspaper with virtuper
ative articles abusive of our public offi
cers articles selected from the politi
cal papers of a single week. Bui I will
not afflict the reading public with their
repetition. It is a great pity that tfiey
cau appear in public print at all.
These papers are the spelling-books oi
J the children, and almost the sum total
of the literature .of many country h.rr
i hey atKsunl in vitujiation
public officer-, from the rh'.ftl
trate of the nation d-.wn to !.
.: .'ur
Ma-!-
officer, the hi:he! g'-ttin- the b
M! l' -t
share. Our President. wh'in we -h
tf'P.cb our children to re-it and b.ti
or, whatever may he the diercc!T- of
our poluie.nl view-, ha N-eti -o nn -
t tired and slandert-L lia:ti r p- :
re.-ented by some write;,- as l-i:!-; j. ''
greater traitor th.tn Lenedict Arnold,
and a greater criminal than the wo;.-t
enitentiary convict, that be has Uv '
come, in the eyes of many a Ih.v. j
very diminutive, insignificant, con-j
temptible creature. A bo was henrd
to say, not long since, that if the Pit-i-dent
oT the United States were pre-! ::t
he would drown him in the swamp.
What kind ol citizens can we hope
to make out of boys who are fed from
week to week, upon such pabulum u
this?
What conceivable good can be hop
ed for from broadcasting oer the land
such intemperate utterances? Do they
not tend, rather, to extinguish the fires
of patriotism, to peqetrate and aug
ment the divisions and alienations al
ready engendered in families and com
munities, and to beget contempt for all
law, parental, civil and divine? It
seems to me that we are rapidly drift
ing towards disintegration and wild anarch-.
The newspaper is a mighty educa
tional factor, for weal or for woe, among
our people, and is largely responsible
for whatever destiny awaits our beloved
country.
Come lown, O ye brethren of the
quill, from your Mount Ebls and rest
for a season from your arduous cursing.
About Girls.
Womankind.
A young woman recently found em
ployment in a queensware store. She
immediately began a cour.e of study
in her leisure moments, upon glass
ware and China. She then read some
recent works upon the appointment of
the table, and in a short time, by ap
plying herself to her business, berame
the most valued employe in a large
store.
In a millinery establishment tie
young woman who found time for read
ing a book or two on colors and their
harmonious combination, found her
own taste greatly improved and her
ability to please patrons much greater.
She was soon a favorite with the em
ployers and customers.
The young woman who, to earn an
honorable living went into my lady's
kitchen, and instead of gossiping every
evening found time to read a few good
books and household papers, was soon
too valuable a housekeeper to be kept
in a subordinate position in the kitch
en. She knew how a table should look
for a formal dinner, she knew what
dishes were in season, she knew how to
serve a meal in its proper course-, and
more than that, she knew something
about the food value of different dishe--.
Of course this sounds like an old
fashion Sunday-school book, but the
fact remains that there is always
"room at the top" and that no unu-ual
amount of intelligence is needed to
reach the top. A fair average of good
sense and a proper amount of applica
tion will accomplish everything.
What is an Eiitcr?
Sflxt'd.
A writer in the South? en Ch'ir-hmai
furnishes the following unique defini
tion : i
It may interest you to know what
was thought of editors by certain peo
ple the other dy. "An editor is a man
who handles words." "An editor makes
his living out of the English language."
"An editor is somebody who does not
do anything himself, and when some
body else does, goes and tells other j-eo-ple
all about it." I append these for
the benefit of the fraternity. In a
small way I have made use of the En
glish language for many years, and I
must say, while not an editor, I appre
ciate the above definitions. An editor,
i should say, is a man who has the in
dustry of the leaver, the instincts of a
bee and the patience of Job.
SUBSCRIPTION I'KICl- S o
NO. 24.
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in ootiM'.pH-tice if f.ij i urr, .i:
condition thut : rt'p-ud ;n
l'!ng to aou! nostalgia and
heart," were etami.Med aftrr c!t
their intern! r w m : i -
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that the nutrition ,,f t.f. t ':.
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leen interfered with,ii:d thr .
proer of various it.d o: ;., ,A
dergone the -m kind d. :: -i.e.
as that brought abo,it bv p!io-j ;. :..
or the germo of info-Moii- dwu- I !
pol-on of yjjrf j, li.orr thi!l I.Vir
For a time the whoV org in:-rn o
thrown, and temporary -eclu-: -:i :- m.
peratne f,.i ptoj-r m. lju-rment .
Grief cannot te ignored, t:e;t!..r .-an
it be cheered up. Itrini-t U m. ; !
and allow id to wear 1 1 1 f nway. !:
adjustment ome -lowly. -":!o..
grief, and all great misfortune -!i..-s! !
Ik? regarded as condition- similar t .
acute infectious di-ense.. which t!a
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i .'. , i j i nit i'- jesun , via ;aur, h- i
a
lescence from Mich dieae-. Se 'lu-ioi
rest, sleep, appropriate i.mnI. fn-l
sun-hine, intere-ts that tax in-ilh.-mind
nor bdv, tb c ain r ii i i : -f m-1 it
in this c'ass of iline-.
Cawht it all tho Sar.o.
Tommv went iHiii
the other '!a
without the pej mi--io'i ..fiii- nr.tb.-r.
Next morning a neighbor's sou m. t
him and a-ket. "Ibd you eat.-h anv
thing yeterday. Tommy ." '-.Not nil
1 got home," was the rather sad
ponse.
GOOD SPIRITS
follow pofxl limit h
While lew HflritW,
iirIihk holm, 1 1 t i j n i r
d riH inorv, mi row,
or IrriiMtilo t-u jw-r,
f.'nr of inirx-ii'l-lnr
calurmt y mi 1
ii tln.ijHj.nl uii'l
Kicr.ts of IkmJv
arul niifi'l. nnwft
from j rriirn.uM,
nolltury re
tl N, of f. ii irj'lu lhr 1
ty tie- yrtutji.
ttiroiiKh ltrtifiriin'-i- .f
their rijifiutjs ci.ini.
lij rie t. Ncrvmn il-!al-ity.
Aril l'h of iiuiiily
rxiwor. tint nit rviui fitl v
result irom surn unnnf urai tiatiitH.
To rcafh. rfdaim mid n-storc mich unfortu- ''
nates to healfh ami tiar'iinr, iH tin-aitii if an wb:
assfX'iatlon of nielical trntl-ineri. who have
firepan-el a tn-atiH'. written in plain but haft
anfvuatfe anl tr-atiur of thj naturf, cyiiip- ,,.,
toms and curaMlity, by home treatment, of t
such (liwaw'S. ''
A eopy of this useful book will, on r-niit
of thiH notiw, with 10 oent In utarnii.. fur
postatf-'', be mailed wciir'ly Healed in a plain
envlope. Aildnsfl, Wniini's Insi'LnAav , M
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