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IF YOU ARE HUSTLER v t ; ! t uvr JiTi-r . Business. IS TO OCRA A BUSINESS ! ! ; STKAM IS T- E. E. MILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. SUBSCRIPTION THICK Sj i i ;.. iya i vku. Dem , ;;ico advertisement about .'. . i iisi-rt it in THE DEMOCRAT, : a chiiii in business all 0 w .??.orESSIOWAL. , J IXAYELL, cLj-uor New Hotel, Main T ,! LAND N'KfK, X. C. ,.;iv- at iii'- office when not v eir'aged elsewhere. 0 20 lv 0 .! ! I; K WJIITKIIKAI), -V "M-;. rj ; i r( liner -ew ii'jiui, .'iiui S iVlLAM) XF.CK,'X. C. T"Ahvas found at his office when '," ',r, ,fr--ionally engaged elsewhere. 7 r, lv . c. I.IYKRMOX, 1 IA. J. k7 jr. J , ra, i Over J. Kay's store. ,.,. h-v from (.) to 1 o'clock ; 2 to m. 2 12 1y seoTLAXI) XECIC, X. C. VOL. XI. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1895. NO. 25 D win hull, Attorney at Law, KX FIELD, X. C. '.!': fix : r!;,-c in all the Courts of Hali !! :ii!i ining counties and in the :,i. ini'l Federal Courts. Claims fi in ;J1 parts of the State. ?, 8 lv A. lU'XX, a Tin n x i: v-a r-L a Tf i on. and Xkck, X. C. lii IVa-'tu-es wherever services are 2 13 ly U. Y. J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, EXTIFLP, X. C. o.liro over Harrison's Drug Store. 2 7 !).", y t WARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney ami Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, X. C. lLm;i Luna! d mi For Lands. 2-2 1-1 v .AU EVAXS, C.F.N ERAL CARPENTER. A -penalty of Bracket and Scroll won; .'f all kinds. Work done cheap .-in I t".jry piece guaranteed. 2 7 lv Scoti.anh Xkck, X. C. STILL HERE jomrsoir ! i e I ne Jeweler. The Old Friend And the Lest friend, that never fails you, is Simmons Liver Regu lator, (the Red Z) that's what you hear at the mention of this excellent Liver medicine, and people should not he persuaded that anything else will do. It is the King of Liver Medi cines; is better than pills, and takes the place of Quinine and Calomel. It acts directly on the Liver, Kidneys and 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. -KVF,ItY PACKACiE-?? 11 an the '. Stamp in red on tviniiiier, T. II. ZEI1.1X & CO., 1'hiladeU.hia, l'a. SPEAK TRUTH TO CHILDREN. THE PRACTICE 0? HUMBUGGING THEM IS BAD AND MAY DO HAEM. Parents Can Satisfy th9 Curiosity cf Their Children Without Tell ing Falsehoods. N THE CHILD'S PRAYER. Into her chamber went A little girl one day, And by her chair she knelt And thus bejjan to pray : "Jesus, my eyes I clo.e Thy form I cannot see : If Thou art near me, Lord, I pray Thee speak to me." A still, small voice she heard within her soul, "What is it, child? I hear thee tell Me all." "I pray Thee, Lord," she said, "That Thou wilt condescend To tarry in my heart And ever be my friend. The path of life is dark I would not go astray : Oh, let me have Thy hand To lead me in the way." "Fear not I will not leave thee, child, alone." She thought she felt a soit hand press her own. 'They tell mc, Lord, that all The living pass away The aged soon must die, And even children may. Oh, let my parents live Till I a woman grow : For if thev die, what can A little'Orphan do?" "Fear not, my child whatever ills may come, I'll not forsake thee till J bring thee home." Her little prayer was said, And from her chamber now, She passed forth, with, the light Of heaven upon her brow. "Mother, I've seen tne Lord His hand in mine I felt, And oh, I heard him say, As by my chair I knelt, "Fear not, my child whatever ills ma come, I'll not 'forsake thee till I bring thee home." Hoih'jcx Reed. What Our Factories Sell England. Vii'h ;i thorough knowledge of the ,iial a complete outfit of tools :n:- maerial, I am better prepared than "'(. : l anything that is expected ol ;i ;r-i -la-s watch-maker and jeweler. A full line of Watches, Clocks, Jews AND MTSICAL INSTRUMENTS. slry le- and eve glasses properly to the eve. free of charge. All t-ttod Ui :k guaranteed and as low as good ' can be d me. "in, it MnrJu'rus adjv.xted and re- f?"LfM,k for my big watch sign at die New Drug Store. W.H.JOHNSTON. "'"lUi;.. Nerk, X. L 10 0 tf u m n NOW OX HAND. 'ILL SKLL THEM CHEAP. r.&. will take contract to ?ftiri)i.-!i lots trom 50,000 .f.?""or more anywhere within JPf miles of Scotland Neck :' i always f iirni.-h whatjgj want. Correspond- J ("a' ' and orders solid ied.0 D. A. MADDRY, l-KMr,-iy Scotland Neck, X. C. MKXTION THIS I'AI'F.R. 01 1 NEWSrAl'AllS FOR SALE, 10 eta. per hundred. Xew York Sun. The United Kingdom takes more of our total exports than wev sell to all other countries combined. It has been much discussed, but as our exports are so largely agricultural and mineral, an important fact ha? been lost sight of. It is generally supposed that while England buys freely our breadstuff and provisions it buys only inconsider able quantities of our manufactured1 oods. The Treasury reports show the con- .i ii. i ; . trarv. During tne nine monins tmuiu April 1, the United Kingdom was our largest customer in several of the most important lines of manufactures, and one of the largest m all. Out of a total of .157,089,000 of exported Ameri can cotton England took 47S,000, or more than all the rest of Europe and twice as much as Mexico. Out of a total of $3,262,000 exported manufac tures of iron and steel England took $500,000 twice as much as Mexico, the Argentine Republic or Brazil, which have been supposably our best customers for such goods. In machinery such as locomotives and stationary engines England ranks only second to Brazil among our cus tomers. In passenger cars England took more than Brazil and more than twice as much as all continental Eu rope. Of our exports of leather 75 per cent, went to England, of sewing-ma chines 25 per cent., of naval stores over 33 per cent., of mineral oils over 33 per cent, of ,all manufactured woods over 25 per cent., and so on through the list of articles exportedlfromour factories. Norfolk Pilot. Good parents should have in mind that when a child reaches the advanced ae of 4 years he usually begins to develop a natural passion for knowledge. This is a much more important stage in his career than most people seem to think. Once stifle this early spirit of inquiry and you may do the child an irreparable injury. The parent has now the opportunity ot laying the foundation of a wise man or a fool, for although the elementary knowledge acquired by one no young may appear trivial and premature, it is really the basis on which all his later education is built up. More than this, it is the habit of seeking information that is necessary to encourage and stimulate. Forced studies at too early an age are greatly to bo deprecated, but we are always safe in letting the child learn what it has a strong desire to know. And this desire or curiosity is the best guarantee we could have that our in struction will receive close attention and be impressed on the memory. Shakespeare's rule is a golden one, in youth or manhood : "No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en ; in brief, sir, study what you most affect." 'J he questions which these youngsters are perpetually springing on us are often yery extraordinary. One little fellow, a short time ago, said to his father, "As God can do everything, can He make a stone so heavy that He can't lilt it?" Many parents would hayebeen puzzled to give a satisfactory answer. The worst thing we can do in difficult cases is to say, impatiently, "Don't bother me child !" If you are ignorant on the point submitted to you, it is much better to say, frankly, "That is one of the things your father doesn't know. Ask me something else, my child." But the great difficulty with most people is to find a way of answering these questions that shall be intelligible to the 3'oung mind with its scanty knowledge and very limited vocabulary. But with patience and perseverance it can generally be managed. Take a case in illustration. Little Freddy has been looking out of the window, and suddenly asks his father, "What is snow, daddy?" The father replies, "Don't bother me now. I'm reading." The big brother, home from school, comes to the rescue : "Snow is moisture in the air that has been frozen into crystals in a tempera ture of 32 degrees or lower." The mother then breaks m : " hat is the uae m telling the child that stuff? Come here, Freddy, dear, Mother Carey is plucking her goose and snow is the feathers." Later on, when the young ster finds that snow is certainly not feathers, he says to himself, 'mother is a story-teller like the rest of us,' and moral influence is lost. If the system continues, the child finds that he is being humbugged and stops asking questions a convenient but deplorable state of affairs. Now, what that father should have done is this : He should have laid down his book and said : "Well, Freddy, snow is wet up in the air that gets frozen and falls down." He would then be asked : "What is 'frozen?" and would reply, "When anything gets hard and white with cold." If the question ia then put, "Why docs it fall down?" a suitable renlv would be, "Because when it is frozen it gets too heavy to stay up." Such answers as these would be intel ligible to every young mind, and al though they are far from scientific, they really leave nothing to be unlearn ed. And this is the great point to bs always kept in view : do not teacn a child anything that it will have to unlearn in after years. It is just as eas,- to tell him that the stars are suns ever and ever so far off, as to say that thev are holes in the sky for angels to peep through. But on no account should achild' imagination 1-e crushed ; on the con trary, it should be stimulated in every reasonable way. This may at firt seem in contradiction to what has already been written, but it i not so. All that the writer contends i: that in matters of physical science and every day fact, we hhould not wilfully mislead our children. Let them by all means re main loyal to their fairies and other pretty childish fancies, for thee are on quite a different plane. They form the poetry in their young lives, and it is a common fallacy that poetry and scien tific knowledge are oppose!. The vault of heaven ban more poetry for the as tronomer than for the ignorant star gazer. The popular fable of Santa Claus does no harm whatever. Directly the littlo skeptic lies awake and finds out the fraud that has been practiced upon him he simply realizes, with more pleasure than disappointment, that the good saint was merely a poetic figure for his loving parents. There was just this much to learn, and practically nothing to unlearn. As for the fairies, why, we all still believe in them in the world of poetry ; every wood and dell is peo pled with them in our playful imag inations. Finally, what a lot we can learn from these clear-headed -oungsters ! "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings" we get problems that may well puzzle men of learning. If a chance question sends us to a textbook that we have not opened for ten or twelve years, let us not be,impatient, but thankful for the opportunity of recovering what had slipped our memory. If it leads us to seek and acquire additional knowledge, it will be a gain to us as well as to the child. The late Prof. Tyndall, always en couraged schoolboys to ask him ques tions. One of them wanted to know why the part of a towel that had been dipped in water was darker than the dry portion, and the man of science re marked that no man had ever asked this question, and very few would have been able to give the correct answer. There Is nothing to gain and a good deal to lose by humbugging our children. The Lats J. J. Vann. v. rourh. iz i vcr f b ru- f pn iv v.. At a meeting of the M'-nr- b.sr March 27. 1V.M, Mr. 1. . Ovinsfu-i delivered an e!pi?nt eulogy of Mr. J. J. Vann v. ho had ju-t died, and -wa- well kiivin -otne year ag the people of Sooti md Neck. F .;! are Mr. "o Instou' r!. -i:.i: remark on Mr. Var.n's life : 'When a man ha- grown in going on.lhv MtJl ,,, ,f.!( lht. . , ; about in doing good : uhenhis headjM.,,n h,u c.,in m p .-UMi. le sa- nevwr dwid f the trt The r. J)!I2tll!)g ",3 ! mTO W H 1 I t J Uh out d-rtU'm at ; curate, w I U .1- (. !l? WW, it r ..- .... "I K W-- . . - - v What She Missed. Youth's Companion. "Did you have a good rest oyer at your sister Mary's?" asked one of Mrs. Jennie Wool son's neighbors. "I s'pose 1 had a good rest enough," answered Mrs. Woolson. I didn't have a thing to do for a week. But I was as homesick and lonesome as an old cat." "Why, I thought they'd entertain you first rate !" exclaimed the neighbor. I understood Mary kep' a hired girl and lived real stvlish. "Well, so she does," admitted Mrs. Woolson. "And they did everything they could for me. But Mary's hus band's shop is right across the street, an' he's always home just on the tick or his meals. An' she's got a hired girl that's just as capable as she can be m' don't need a mite o' lookin' after. An her two boys are just like little clocks I never see two sech stiddy lit tle fellows in all my days." "Well, 1 should think you'd have had a real peaceful time," said the neighbor. "I did," returned Mrs. Woolson, "but it wan't a thing for me to worry about from morning till night an I missed the excitement; that's jest what the trouble was. An I come home two davs before mv visit was out because I got so dreadful low in my mind I be gun to feel kinder sick." "You look all right now," said the neighbor, with a glance at Mrs. Wool son's red cheeks. "Mussy sakes, yes ! Why, when Cy rus met me at the depot yesterday, he said fust thing that he thought by the looks of the corn 'twas all dryin up, an we shouldn't have anythln' to pay for all he'd spent on the fiield this year, an he said that Miry looked to him as if she was comin' down with the measles, an Johnny had eat somethin' that he reckoned was p'ison the day before, an was liable to be took sick any minute An, lawzee, I begun to feel as homey an contented as ever I was in my life. An by the time we drove up to the door I was all chippered up an ready for anvthing 1" has been whitened with th fnt of' i manv winters ; hi" form bowf-i bv thf ' weight of many re-ponsib:ht's ; his face furrowed by the troublous touch of time ; his eyesight dim, hi step un steady and he is ready, like the shook of ripened grain, to le garner? 1 in, it is not so pad for him to call hi friend and family around him and, after le stowin; upon each the parting blessing, to gather up hij robes and, like a ribb ing thought, climb upward, tar by .tar, into Heaven. But for the young, for the mature man, surrounded by nil the comforts and luxurie of life, jut beginning to live, to be suddenly cut down, without a moment's warning, without an opportunity even to speak a good-bye or impart a final blessing, is sad beyond expression, and, from a human standpoint, an inscrutable Providence. Upon such an one death falls like an "untimely frost" that blasts the "fairest flower in all the fields.'' We cannot understand it. We need not. It is enough that it is ko, and that man is happy who, submitting to the inevitable, is able to feel and be lieve with Whittier in his "Eternal Goodness" : 'I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air, 1 only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care. 'And so, beside the silent sea, I Wait the muffled oar, No harm from Him can come to mo On ocean or on shore. '1 sigh for household voices gone, For vanished smiles I long, But God has led our dear ones on, And He can do no wrong.' "Edward Fuller, one of North Caroli na's most brilliant sons, and, to my mind, her sweetest singer, left to us all, in the evening of his life, a priceless legacy which, if we appropriate, will be a "lamp to our fe-et" and light up our pathway as we journey through life, and will strengthen us w hen we come to pass through the "valley of the shadow of death." and enable us finally to walk by the "side of the still waters" and to "lie down in green pas tures" : 'Thus do I wish to live, life's aims subserved to God, And each continued day and hour re gard As special gifts to be improved for Him ; To wear the girdle of this world about my loins so loosely, That a moment will suffice to break the clasp And lav it down." ' fib - lty in UU he.trt, a -,! :. i ;. by t l-ogg.ir-worr.Hn. lie p!edti utter 3 tck of ne-ney. .u. 1 Midiy turned a-ide ; but on the jr.end; cantV heeeehh:g him to M'arch hi pockets, he hoji'!e!y put hi hand !n one. an 1 to hia amazement i. ! found a fio-shi!ling pievo. 'Another of G..,l'- miracle "' be i v i-laimed : and then, the woman: "Thi cm U-'oir.'- ! vu Take it. and go in peare." Having told the story u ten b-ur-later ! hit worldly-minded p.::-!; prie-t, and fUgge-ted thnt ; Ley -!.. .i;!d both go down on their kwe :;d wil der thanks to ( iod, a strange, unpV ant light suddenly broku on the mind of the i-direwd pa-tor, who exclaimed in accents not suggc-t i e of thank-gi in.; ii- i .i i "iroou neaven : .Are uio-mv i:eerjie . i DR. H. 0. HYATT'S SANATORIUM, K I - 1 N &-! Norfolk Commission Co., .1". - t . !:!:;; - i ' i ' ' , . . ! ! W .-! 1 . . i V, ' , I ;. : . ! ' i: I' r. of w , . :e, .o- i l: 1 veu ve on vou A PRETTY GAMK. The sun and lain m fickle weather Were playing hidr and-seel. toet!ier, And each in turn would try to elm-" The other from hidim.' place. At la-f tliOV met to -.iy gofl-by, And !o ! a rainbow -panned th ky. Aitit M. I'rntt ru Youth's ..t.iyf. ion. l',-h -:i !.:; . e. ! f . - - .: s ! ' !. I I W . ; Due.--.-'.-! : d ' I 1 I '.'-J Is. rie-!,.), Wj, ,. O, J :,!! !! : '. r i ,..d leni: - f 1 ; -''o. ' 1 v,.. in to-,-. . ' S I l.o.n !. : -e of i.ie fj- Wol. II f'il I '. ' ' I - ' i ; ! known. .--'M ' " 1 I I v 1 Co . !;: '-. - ' I ' ! b ! I v. A rALK FACE romn from poor M!. Your i1k1 ney1s Vt lo enrioliHil aiul vitAlil 1 r this thi-f't nothing in tll ( I M fto tli'T- ouhly clTcotivM h Ir. I'lern-s (;.l.n ilo'licnl Disrovrry. t'hiMr'n who lire weak, thin, lah', and puny are ninle strong, rlun'P. rosy. and robust by tho " I)ieovery." lt"n t-iv eially adnptl to them, too, from it. ilns anttasto. It's an apix-tizinR, restorative ton ic which huilds up n".l."l il-sli ami Mrem-th. In every 1.Ixj1-taint or lisorh r, f it doesn't lMnoiit or euro, you havo your money baek. Dr. It. V. Piekck: Tnr Sir J will my that I uwl the "Medlrnl Iiiscovory " for my littit; frirh and sb'- ih tntin ly wr 11. T cannot praine your medicines too biKl'ly. Vu nmy rest aanured that you will always hav- my Support ; 1 lot; Crtoicta. 'I be bt,;.,!!- M.1-' !!' I ( ' I M . I o 1 1 . ' I . ! I . I ! j I ill ho--- an ! !- ' I , e-. , 1 ;:t ! I V ' - t . e e. 1 ! , ' " 11 " ' I . ! ' Hi' II-led '' !.: i: ' 1 -I II e cUl e. It", i j .Io-cn'- ! I Ml;- ri: (v;:i: j'li'rv vr i- A ' i i i i I ' ' ; 1 ! : b.ei, n-e-J f.,! ui ; ' ' . ! b !.- '.r ,,t!.- ? i -! i ' : i o i it : e . ; .v it PostmaeU-r of Alion, JYrry ., Tcnn. Japanese Soys and Girls. Gospel in All Land. Japanese children are gentle m their manner and -ways. Their toys are the most fragile of play things, and yet they keep them int act for years. An American child vrill pick out her doll's eyes to see how she shuts them, and dig holes in her ribs to let out the sawdust ; in fact, make her "a thing of shreds and patche.'' in less than twenty-four hours. The little Japanese 3a iy carries her doll as if it were made of precious Btuff, and keeps it very carefully. When she is a grown wrr.an, "he has her dolls and tovs in a good ?tae of preservation. A set of toy is bought for e.ch son born in the family. Pole- adorned with paper carp, after the manner of flags, are set up all over the city, one carp for every son that has been born in the community during the pa.-t year. The reason carp are used is that they are supposed to swim up river against the current more bravely than any other fish. So the Japanese think well of the sturdy boys who, overcom ing all obstacles, rise to fame and fortune. 'i. f. ) 7. i V. lie : ;!!... p'e.l t 'ii.'- ' ;M-t- III e e ; T'A e;. v I, ve . e:.' .. i. U-..'led. .!.' I"e - Win-!. .a- ....!,! Ho older i. i ! ;d . ! , -'! II i CO P i 1-3 w -i O Q C New Drug Store. -Scolwfe)rij 0. p- . ' ! :. : ! e, ui to ii,:- i'c .- . : ! -t -e, . i I K1 P o o ".. Chwpinianc' Dvr" ' rir in .0 I I If 0 1 U I C4 ! ! 0 I ..UiJJf VThn Baby -was htck, re rT Castort. "hen ahe -was a Child, she cr.e-i Tor Castorla. Vrhta she becam iLis, 'JL Circ to CatorX TTbra tte Lfi d ClikL-oa, ah gave Umia CtoriA. ! ! ':;: i i ' j Mi:TI N I III- I A! Southern Hotel, HALIFAX, N. C. T Cl.A-S A' o.MV'.iiA Iio.s - ; i in: r i:l.! Th- Fore 71,- !: 77,- M WORE rv? r - , Mi:s. C. I'. Tn.u i:v, Mus. John II. I'knm.u. 2 -21 Zit. M; i !:.t ger-. Certain. htf, a: .1 V ". r : -'f Sunt, itAK, G ii.it -i- l i uo, Producing Lcrj-C';- it :. I h: ..'..- irjthiSj' -: if t'-: :.. CoreiTearDropi.CrfiHutio- dva Turners, Red Eyfi. Vatt i t-,t Luei, jiq rtiH'Hc (i ia ; . . i : :' ' '-oCt'.g. H5:;' ''': ' " ' 11 "'-'f r": r f I If" T it.- '''" Timiin, H.lt ICiUf. iitr . i'y- v f,,T-rt inr:-ijt. . . ! 4 H i.. 1.119 liMKiir !e :t r. .m.-..'. field tor all iruaii u( Cent. 7 I'J iy r
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