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7 IS TO BUSINESS V, II A S'i'KAM IS TO- Machinery, J'i;(i:i i-i.lN' r,,-vj;i: , i;icf advertisement about V::' . ;iikI in.-ert it in THE DEMOCRAT, ;i change in business nil pr.crsssraAL. rDOWKLb, ( I J ,(!iior New Hotel, Main .AM Xixk. X. C. - nt his ollico when not i 1 1 ur. i g -' I e ! se w ! i f re. o 20 iv : viijti:hi:ai), .-If I c rner Xew Hotel, Main 1 . -i ii i.m Xi:ck, X. C. rSA! -. - found at hi office when r.";.,V. J,, !;!- ensued elsewhere. V( 1 ' n::. A. ' - Li im,.i- , k i .;. -. Over .1. D. RayV, store. , !,-!ix from to 1 o'clock ; 2 to -k.!.. m. 2 12 1y -ruTI.AND Xr.CK, X. C. D VVIH I5KLL, Attorney at Law, EX FIELD, X. C. 1'r.n-tirc-: in all the Courts of Tlali- c :!ni a'li'iinint; counties and in the i.rctiic and I'ederal Omrts. Claims 1 in all parts of the iStatc. :i s ly w, A. DI N'X, .i r t o i: x : v-a t-l a w S. nTI.AMi Xkcic, X. C. Pr.i.-t l.-o- wherever f? JM! I t'll. Jus service are 2 VA ly J) It. W. J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, Km "iki.d, X. C. nvcr Harrison's Dru'JT Store. 2 7 '.)-" ly E1 AVAR I) L. TRAVI: Alsonicy Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, X. C. 2-21-ly I. -... Vi; V:?: m r:Tiox this paper. STILL HERE JOHNSON he Jeweler. ii .i thorough knowledge of the and a complete outfit of tools - ''rial, I am better prepared than do an thing that is expected of -; a-s watch-maker and jeweier. A full line of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry AM) VESICAL IXSTREM EXTS. ; -r :t, :e ad 0ye glasses properly ' the eye. free of charge. All -laranteed and as low as good ;u he d' nc. M'K-hJlHS tt!Hst''( Olid "'- L-.-.k for my big watch sign at ' a i M-ng Store. VI. H. JOHNSTON. I W-k. X. C. 10 0 tf NOW ox HAXD. WILL SELL THEM CHEAP. 3S"A!so will take contract to f.ffurnish lots lrom 50,000 lor more anywhere within "0 miles of Scotland Xeck 'i a sways furnish whatgyy 1 want. Corresoond- and orders solicited. RBIOK ' EM M B D. A. MADDRY, l-l'i-'.i.Vly Scotland Xeck, X. C. -MENTION THIS PAPER. -LHE E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XI. SIMMOMSN Are you taking Simmons Liver Reg ulator, the "King of Liver Medi cines?" That is what our readers want, and nothing but that. It is the same old friend to which the old folks pinned their faith and were never dis appointed. But another crood rpfrnn. mendation for it is, that it is better than Pills, never gripes, never weak ens Dut works in such an easy and natural way, just like nature itself, that reuei comes quick and sure, and one ieeis new all over. It never fails, Everybody needs take a liver remedy, anu everyone snould take only Sim mons Liver Regulator. Be sure you get it. The Red Z is on the wrapper. J. 1. Zeilin & Co., Philadelphia. A PUZZLING QUESTION. AXX.V Af. PRATT. 'Jrandma says (though I don't see why) i iiat I am the apple of her eve : lirother calls me a dunce ; Aunt Fan Says she thinks I'm a little man : Father ."ays I'm a reg'iar boy, And mother calls me her pride 'n' joy. Xow this is what I would like to know How in the world can a fellow grow Who's a pride 'n' joy, an apple, a dunce. V reg lar bov and a man at once ! Yo uth x Co in pi i n io n . Insects Friendly to Man. Xen' York Tribune. The lady bug, so quaintly marked that it is bard to find two of them just alike, is one of the gardener's best friends, vet hundreds of them are killed ecause people in their ignorance don't know what a helper tliey have in this pretty, buxom little insect. A few days ago 1 vi-ited a friend who has a garden full of all sorts of flowers, and back of there is the kitchen garden, with rows of currants and raspberry bushes. The leaves of both these shrubs were cov ered with blight or lice that were as green as the leaves on which they lived and thrived. Hunting about the hugh es were a number ol lady bugs. The woman in her ignorance was killing these right and left, thinking they were loing all the damage, and when told they were her best Iriends was incredu lous. A few minutes' eareJul watching, however, showed the small bug busy eating the smaller green pest. Small yellow pyramids showed where she had laid her eggs, which in a day or two would hatch. The woman saw and believed, and in future the lady bug has a sure refuge and a welcome in her natch of flowers and fruit. Another insect that is forever being killed owing to the ignorance of the general public is the dragon Jly, also known as the needlecase. It is one of the most usesul insects of this climate. in its Laval state he subsists almost entirely on those small squirming threads that can bo seen darting about m any still water, and which hatch out into the sweet singing mosquito As soon as the dragon lly leaves his watery nursery ground and, climbing some friendly reed, throws away the old shell and Hies away, he is helping man again. His quarry now is the house fly. Xot long ago I saw one of these insects knocked down in a veranda, where he had been doing yeoman's service, and the children and women seemed de lighted, although they shrank back from the poor wounded dragon lly. They all thought he had an awful sting at the end of his long bod a cruel injustice. When I took the insect up there was general wonderment, which was increased when a captured lly was offered him and he ate it greedily. The boys of that hoiiseuold will never harm a dragon lly again. Grandfather Counts. Sccutijic A mcrican. Holland disfranchises a citizen it he is absent from the country for ten years and during that lime does not formally notify the proper authority that lie vihes to continue to he regarded as citizen. Great Britain does not so easily give up her claim to the loyalty of her sub jects. A man may count upon ner pc - tectiou on the ground that hi 'i-andfa- ucuoo oo . - ther was by birth and ahegiancean ,.n - gl'shman. even though he and i;1-s t!-er were both born and have aiw:.-- liyed on foreign soil,but without being 1 r fO I I'X'tiitrfi.... ........ ! SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. THURSDAY. UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. HOW MSS. STOWS GOT EE?. ORIG INAL CHARACTERS. Tns Anther's Connection vrith the Famous "Undergrcmd Railway." The Story of Eliza Harris -Other Fig ures in the Story. OJiio Stair .Jtjuruti. It reads almost like some chapter of forgotten history the story of Harriet Iieecher Stowe, who did more to free the slaves than any other one or half dozen causes. It may not he generally known that "Cnele Tom's Cabin" was written when Airs. Stowe was Ja resi dent of Walnut Hills, asurpurb of Cin cinati, and her husband, Prof. Calvin Stowe, was connected with Lane Theo logical Seminary. That was before the war, when Cincinnati, in slavery days, was an important station on the "un derground railroad." The Ohio river was easily crossed at this point, anc numerous runaways made their way over from Kentucky and were met in Cincinnati by friends who assisted them in various ways to make good their c c ipe. Among those more or less active in tli is movement were the l?eechers, Aln Stowe beins a daughter of Lvman needier, president of the seminary. There she first imbibed her hatred of slavery, and began work on a newspa per story depicting life among the lowly, that was afterward enlarged to Cnele Tom's Cabin." The house in which she wrote the historic work still stands on Walnut Hills, a modest little home, at which no passer would glance i second time, and all the characters were taken from tne experience of Mrs. towe, who saw much of the evils of .lavery at that time. The "Eliza" louse that gave refuge to the escaped lave girl who afterward figured in the tory as Eliza, stands upon a hill near the village of Glendale, the Van Tromp f the narrat've being John Van Zandt, i member of the Society of Friends, ho settled on the farm and made it in mderground station, lhe Eliza was liza Harris, a Kentucky slave, owned v a man near mpiev, v., uui on uie lavery side of the river. She ran away rom her master with her child, as told in the story, crossing the river on the ice, and aiterwam snenereu in me louse of Kev. .Mm Kankin, whose amily still lives in Kipley. Another young girl who gave much o the construction ot the character ol Cliza was a seamstress m the employ ot Mrs. Stowe. She came from ventucky with the consent of her mis tress, her brother being held as a hos- isre for her return. Tne occurrences were not frequent, as the Kentuckians were very lenient with their slaves and often indulged them in trips across the Ohio to free soil. The girl was legally free by her presence in Ohio by consent of her mistress. Shortly after her arrival the brother escaped, and she resolved not to return. In this she was encouraged by her friends, and also by Mrs. Stowe, in whose family she had found employment. "Free papers" were obtained lor her to make her con dition doubly legal. There were many people in Cincinnati, however, who were ready to serve the slaveholders by kidnapping fugitives, and when Prof. Stowe learned that the former master of Eliza was in the city, and a friend told him there was a plan to take the girl at night, it was determined to put her in a place of safety. Accordingly Prof. Stowe performed the part of Sen ator Pird. Procuring a horse and wagon, accompanied by Henry Ward Iieecher, he drove the girl ten miles along a lonely road and over a dangerously-Hooded ford, to the house of John Van Zandt. The fireplace is still shown where Eliza is said to have been con lined during one ot the visits of the slave hunters to the place in their pursuit. Another character in the story is Richard iiillingham, a young Ouaker lrom Morrow, ()., who came to Cincin nati to teach the negroes, and whose enthusiasm led him to Xashviile in behalf of a slave, where he was impris oned and died before his release, bo far as known, only one of the originals of the characters of the story is now living, a very old man, ai.d who.-e ad vfin!:irp are recorded in this story as the experiences of George Harris. He crossed the Ohio at Pipley, and had refuge for several days with the Pan kins. He was afterwards conducted north into Clinton county, where he found safetv and a home for year among the (Quakers of thai part of the state. A son of Kev. John bankm William Kankin, was Harris giuue, and tells with relish the incidents of the escapes of Harris and Eliza. Such are some ot the scenes and incidents and people upon which was founded the storv ol "Lncle lorn Cabin," a book which has been read in everv onartei of the globe, over which 1 niil,ions h.ive weptj and whicb brought j freedoin to the captive and enduring i f;ime to tne woman wno ceieoraieu in a quiet way her eighty-fourth birthday recently. Democrat. "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. ' I'rf. ,1. Hi. C A. f"iint"ii. of the .-'an Vr.w -cl.-co Hoard of Education, has made a ! sjeeiai study of the effect of cigarette! smoking among the public -choo I children of that city, and e.-pre.-e- him-I e!t m the foil. .win: unmi-takahle lan guage : "A c,ood deal ha- been -aid abnit the evils of cigarette -m-'king. but ne half the truth has never (.eon told. Ihae watched this thing f r a long time, and I can say calmly and deliberately that 1 helive cigarette smoking is as bad a habit as opium smoking. I am talking now of boys, remember. The effect upon grown men is, of coure, not m marked. "A cigarette fiend will he and steal just as a morphine or opium fiend will lie and steal. Cigarette smoking blunts iuj niioie moral nature, it nas an aj- ) illiug effect upon the system. It fir.-t stimulates and then stupefies the nerves It gives them enlargement of tho r.rvnj and it sends them to the insane asylum I am physician to several hoy schools and J am often callel m to prescribe for palpitation of the heart. In nine cases out of ten it is rau.-ed by the cig arette habit. Every physician know.- the cigarette heart. 1 haveeen bright boys turned into dmres, and straight forward honest boys made into misera ble cowards, by cigarette smoking, am not exagerating. I am speakin the truth, that ever;' physician and nearly every teacher Inows. "When Niagar: Han Dry. Iioston Transcript. Congressman Dan Lockwood of Buf falo says that withir. his recollection the great waterfall at Niagara was sus pended, and that many people passed oyer Us rocky place dry shod. He says that .the miracle was wrought in 1848, during the month of March. To be exact, it was or the morning of March 2(., 1848, and fur several hours the wonderful torrent cid cease follow, and the river ran dry. The preceding winter lind been sove!'d hikI t Ho ice which had formed in Lake Erie was ot phenomenal thickness. There came on march 27 a sulden exceedingly warm spell ot weather, which melted the snows, and then ;i warm rain pour ed down in torrents during the entire day of March 28. Ti e ice was loosen ed, and a strong east wind drove it far out in the lake during the night. Put at sunrise on the 2'Jth the wind came from the west, and as the sailor ays, it was "blowing great guns." This terrific gale drove the immense mass of ice into the mouth of the Xiagara Riv er, where it was gorged and piled up from shore to shore, hermetically seal ing the river from damming the waters back into the lake. JThus it happened that Xiagara ran dry, its falls become lack, barren rocks, and its mighty thunders were put to sleep. Within four or five hours tinv streams of water began to trickle through the gorge. The tremendous po ver back of those streams accelerated their llowing, and in a short time the ice dam gaye way, and there never was such a wild, roar ing, mad Hood in Viagara before or since, and thus the cataract became it self again. A Word to Farmers. Co m rn r re in I A ji pral. Take care of the small tilings and the large ones take cire ol themselves, is a saving which is very old and which has had many varieties. Its age, how ever, has nothing to do with its reason, the state of mind called dotage not ap- ilyiiig here. The axiom is especially true in farm life, and recent statistics should impress its importance on the farmers. According to the census ot 18!)0, the wheat yield was said to be S.oM..7H bushels in the United States. This would nave oetri woiiu .ro,.;.;.o.7i. 11 I . il. 1C ".)" col counting the price at b cents, per bushel. The yield of corn in 18!X) was i?.iv::. ::o bushels. We can see things better by compar- t ........ i . .. :u . . l ... i?ons, and a coiuia-L neiu win not ou out ot place. According to the report referred to. the dairy product was 107. o.")7.11 gallons of milk, G1U310 pounds of cheese and 2V.14, ob pounds ol butter. Xot counting the milk and cheese, the butter at J'J cents per pound, aptly says a contemporary, was worth nearly as much as the wheat crop rated at 7" cents perj-ushel. The yield of eggs reached 23.1 2.313 dozens. At 10 cents per dozen, it can very read ily be seen that the eggs alone bring in a wonderful amount of revenue. The farmers are beginning to heed the advice to diversify crops ; in Geor gia, Mississippi arid Arkansas there is a considerable acreage in cairn and oth er cereals, and they are looking splen did, while the cotton crop does not ap pear so flattering. If the cow and poultry shoul l have the attention they merit justly from every farmer, there would be less reason to complain of hard times. AUGUST 22. 1895. f. A iifw-paj- c. .r;r-; :ii'. - me I tt... f tfe I.:;.. I: :. r-e: e inch ', Wadiing! :i ah?Wi .u-c. fir-t !;;cn , !.f ; t! : f ( 1 en Att.-rne - .esu-r.t! f V - ' !.; e ! f i i.i ;- i ; . U.nch to Li- ,.-. j ifV'.l - ltoriH' -' : .it i S'att-.;Hid !ef: L:--on ! drank. ai:d -;tc: if. -cd IL- V XV. iri P.u! , r t : i g H;ti.icaU!g Lq'.or. Aii 'lLtT p.nq cr a- ; ! he Sup: erne ' ui t f C had been e-tccmed oi; . i .o: . .i tb" m--t eli'ijuent men of hi time lie came to Washington to get an odlce. v.a-di-appoint d. took lo drink, drank Li; -elf out of pocket, mind, and friend-, and into the p'orhou-e. In .'.is company w.i- a once wealthy newspaper editor and proprietor, (,f Xew York, a man of great political inlhience. Thi.i man ha- h--n f.i three years in the poorhou.-e. Some times his friends take him out, but 1 drinks .-o much that fie he- a! .'it the street and is returnad by the police. In another branch ol the in-titution was an ex-Attorney-( ieneral of North! Carolina. The principal rea-on for hi-' being put then? is that lie stole a triend's vest and sold it for whi-key. To such depths of degradation will whiskey bring the strongest and ablt st of us. A man who was Stephen A. Doug lass' intimate friend, and who u.-ed t speak from the same platform-, with him, is a Washington pauper. When fortune smiled on him, ho u-ed liquor as a relish and when her smiles turned to 1 row ns he took it as an antiuote lor sorrow. Jt brought him temporary relief, but permanent ruin. Coming int ) the almshouse as the correspondent left it, va an old white haired man, who was at one time one f the leading men of the Michigan ar. He was the man who backed Zachariah Chandler, and made him polU'.caliji sjitr.MKin, u nai ne was. .And this man of great legal ability and po- itical influence sullieicnt to make and unmake men, ard of much weahh, i.- now a pauper. v. nv: i.ecame ne irank alcoholic liquor. How foolish is anyone, high or low, who will take this poison and hope to escape its effects ! '.Vlien H;try was sicfc, pave her Castorla. 'A'h-a she -was a CUUJV die cr ! ior Castorla 'Vhcn she Tiecamo M r-s, : he cun t Ciist..ria. VLc a i -3 hu J .il'-'-'tn, i gave Umsiu (Jt'i'toria. Hog : Cholera -CEKED--CURED- f B uv i.sixi; Tin: I 4 niiRii II J U Dim UUIIJJ. I-OK SAI.K A'l- X. II. 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