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USINESS L- v,nT i:am is to ' ctciiinery, . --v.-o-.o- ..1,-oi-ticPTrmnt. flhillt, Vr: ;";f.,, I in-ert it in Cfl DEMO CHAT, .. fra (.J,:inge in business all . 4 V: " p?,C?SSSI01TAL. ,. (Kh puWF.LL, - r.j. rwinrr New Hotel, Main -..1,,-v- :it liis office when, not 7sKVinTEIIEADf ,.anipr Xew Hotel, Main street, i'OTI-AN I Xkck, N. C. W; Ii'iniU Jtl inn imuw "lien pf. .fJjoii:illv entered, elsewhere. 7 0 ly la.c. i.ivermox, untitle 0fFI(-E Over J. P. Kay's store. ,p!i1(ur from 1) to 1 o'clock ; 2 to toVl'H-k. . m. -iy i VILA XI) NECK, X. C. IVID BKLL, Attorney at Law. ENFIELD, X. C. Pr iftiees in nil the Courts of Hali- I'Him'l arli"ining counties and in the Iviprcme mi'l reuei iU vxnui.s. Planus Ifjlia'tcd in all parts of the State. : S ly A. PIWX, ,1 7 7 0? X E Y-A T-L A W. S'n-n.ANJ) Xkck, X. C. rr;iftii-s wherever his service are jiiintl. 2 13 ly G. W. J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, Exi ir.i.D, X. C. Office over Harrison's Drucr Store. 2 7 Ooly ;i'VARI L. TRAVIS, Attorney ami Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, X. C. f&"Lii' 'i I.naiinl oil Farm Land-i. 2-21-Lv -MKXTIOX THIS FAFER. STILL HERE J0HJTSO1T The Jeweler, 'tha thorough knowledge of the 'in!:,,.- id a complete outfit of tools !,!H material, I ain hotter prepared than t"':' t' (1 any t li in.ir that is expected ol a''!:-t clt-s watch-maker and jeweler. A full line of Watches, Clocks, J ewelry AI MI'SICAI, IXSTRUMEXTS. loct:u-los and eye glasses properly t 1 1 in- eye. free of charge. All n"r'K 'inmnteed and as low as good ,vr,rk can l,c done. s' Mnrhhmn ml a tied and re- Look for mv liif writ oh sitrn at t!ie -vv I n:; Store. W. II. JOHNSTON. IN..-!;, X. (J. 100 u ICK! sinu :- X0W ox HAND. ,,v!hl. SELL THEM CHEAP. Also will take contract to ff"furnish lots Irom 50,000 1ST' or more anywhere within O.j0 miles of Scotland Neck ''mi r,T... . . . - n.ays lurnish what ,u want. Correspond- 'e and orders solicited. . A. AIADDRY, Scotland Xeck, N. 0. The Democrat. E. E. MILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor VOL. XL REGULAfOR7 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 game old friend to which the old folks pinned their faith and were never dis appointed. But another good recom mendation for it is, that it is better than Pills, never gripes, never weak ens, but works in such an easy and natural way, just like nature itself, that relief comes quick and sure, and one feels new all over. It never fails. Everybody needs take a liver remedy, and everyone should take orily Sim mons Liver" Regulator. Be sure you get it. The Red Z is on the wrapper. J. H. Zeiliu & Co., Philadelphia. A GAME OF TAG. A grasshopper once had a game of tag With some crickets that lived near by, When he stumped his toe and over he went, In the twinkling of an eye. Then the crickets leaned up against a fence And laughed till their sides were sore, But the grasshopper said, "You are laughing at me, And I shan't play any more." So off he went, tho' he wanted to stay, For he was not hurt by his fall, And the gay little crickets went on with the game, And neyer missed him at all. A bright-eyed squirrel called out as he passed, Swinging from a. tree by his toes, "What a foolish fellow that grasshop per is ; Why, he's bit off his own little nose." $'Iecti(l. Marriage Not a Matter of Fact. Srll'Ctld. "Marriage is a very matter-of-fact al lair. There is little noetrv in it : and all experience shows that it is better to get rid of all nonsense before commit ting matrimony.' I beg to differ. All experience does not show any such thing. If nonsense means here, as it seems to mean, vM those things that make the poetry of life, I say the more you have of it the better. A marriage that can properly be styled a matter-of-fact one promises no happiness for the man, and unutterable misery for the woman, if she has any soul. What ! Because a thing is real, must it be common-place? The light of love illumines the homeliest duties ; and because there must be eating and drinking, and sleeping, and earning of bread-and-butter in its years, marriage need not be a matter-of-fact arrange ment a coarse sort of bargain; in which the wife becomes a housekeeper, and the husband banker. Better that there should be no marrying at all ; for what shall they do in those hours oi trouble and pain whicn come to all of us, when every heart craves sympathy, and when none can giyo it so well as the lover whose love has endured through many years? When two people of opposite sex, temperament and habits resolve to live together for the rest of their lives, there is a necessity for a little of that ro mance that makes people seem better and more beautiful than they really are, if in time they would not hate each other. Xo if you have no other part in life that is not common-place and mat ter ot lact, forbid that home-life which is the consequence of marriage to sink to this. Have a thousand "songs with out words" for every day. Nourish your most delicate sentiments and weave them with the hours as they glide by. Don't have all your poetry in the book case, and all your music in tho piano. The woman that is a happy wife need not long to be courted again. There is no need, he is won : nor are many compliments necessary. Mutual devotion is an ever-appreciated compli ment. Yet, still, do not quite forget those old clavs which drew you to each other. Be lovers always. 31 any peo ple are ; and those who love are safe. The meeting and parting kiss, the kind look, the appreciative word never for get these. Never let marriage degener ate into the common-place. So surely as you do, worse will follow ; fur the husband and wife who have no tender sentiments towards each other will be come foes. Mary Kyle. - SCOTLAND NECK, ABOUT SCHOOLS. TEACHERS AND PAP.ENTS. The Needed Cord of Sympathy. Edward Bok in Ladies' llonu Journal. DUTY OF PARENTS. I believe it is time that the Ameri can school system should receive a lit- tle more personal attention at the hands of our parents, and the position of the teacher be more clearly understood. The average parent owes it as a duty to himself and to herself, and to his oi lier children. The cry of "no time" of the engrossed business man or the busy housewife is not a legitimate excuse. We should find time, we must make time lor a matter which so closely con cerns the future welfare of our own flesh and blood. Parents must become a more "personal part of the school life of their children, or the present misun derstanding of the teacher's capabili ties and the existing evils in our school buildings will never be remedied and removed. That our schools arc over crowded admits of no question. We have only to watch the newspapers at this season of the year when our schools are opening, to read the number oi children crowded into inadequate space and the number who are refused ad mittance altogether, or taught on half time. The worst possible ventilation exists in the majority of our school rooms. The foul air which our child ren breathe into their lungs for five hours of each day would amaze some parents if they would take the trouble to visit the schools which their child ren attend. Not long ago an observant teacher, a woman who stands high in her profession in the West, wrote to me : "I have been a teacher for fifteen years, and I am frank to say that rath er than commit my little one to breathe the fetid air of some of our schoolrooms I would keep him at home. Again and again have I gone into classrooms when the air was such as make one grow sick and tarnt. Generally it comes from lack of ventilation, caused in the main by circumstances over which the teacher has no control ; at other times by the teacher's own carelessness or her occupation with so many other duties that she forgets this important ques tion of pure air. Do I wonder that so many children go home with headache ! No, my wonder is rather that the health of our children is so good." This sub ject has often been agitated, and the most startling facts laid bare, yet our parents are indifferent to it. SYMPATHY WITH TEACHERS. The teacher, too, should have her hands upheld by the parents. She must be better understood, and her po sition more intelligently appreciated. Without assistance from the parents, the school-teacher fights single-handed and against the most difficult odds. Not only is it incumbent upon the parent that he or she should personally know the teacher of the child, but the teach er should be given the opportunity of seeing her pupil's home life. A knowl edge of the domestic influences which surround a child has frequently helped a teacher in her proper guidance of the pupil at school. She works more in telligently when she knows the wishes ot the parents and the peculiarities of the child. If teachers and parents would come closer together than they do the beneficial results to the children would be incalculable. Not only would such a closer coming together be felt by parents and pupil, but by the teach er in fitting her better for her work. A glimpse of the cheer of domestic life would mean much to the average school-teacher who passes her evenings in a boarding-house. And the average teacher proves a delightful guest at a home table. Her vocation usually makes her well-informed end her mind is keen by constant training. Two of the biightest and wittiest women I ever met, women as charming in their man ners as repartee was sparkling and their wit delicious, are teachers in one of New York's public schools. They were, in fact, the brightest women at the ta ble at which they sat and surprised their hostess with their capacity as so cial additions. These women are reg ular guests at many a table in the homes of their pupils, and much of their suc cess with the children at school, they have told me, is attributed to the op portunities they have enjoyed of com ing into this personal contact with the parents under their charge. There are people who have yet to learn that the day of the proverbial spectacled school ma'am is over, and that some of oui very brightest women are in the schools of our cities, towns, and villages. SOCIAL VIRTUES. We are now at the season ot the year when our schools are re-opening and our teachers are beginning to take up their duties for the winter. And it will do much for the welfare of your child ren if you devote closer attention to their school life and to those in whose ' i ' ' : 1 . . . "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. 1895. hand their educative training has been placed. The first thing to do i to vi. it the school which your children at tend. Make a jint of this, even if it means a sacrifice of something el.-. Few things can le more important than to see for yourself the surround ings of jour child during'echool hours. Observe quietly yet keenly, but remem ber that any observations or comments you have to make, the teacher of the chiss in which jour child happens to i-e is not the projer jerson to whom to make them. The principal of the school or the superintendent is the proi-er functionary for such nurjioses. The teacher is helpless; she must accept conditions as she finds them. .he is an employe, pure and simple. But seek her out and win her acquaintance and confidence. Show her that you mean to co-operate with her. She Knows that the best results can only te obtained when teacher and parent co operate. Invite her to your heme not in a general way but at a definite time. 3Iake her feel that you want her to be something more than the teacher of your child. 3Iake a friend of her if you can ; at least give her the opportu nity to show that she has another side to her nature than that which she shows in the classroom. The teacher's burden is a heavy one rather than a light one ; to make it easier for her is to your advantage, and means the"cast ing of bread upon the waters." let her see her pupil at home, and the in fluences which surround the child when away from her. If it is important that you, as parent, should know the atmos phere of the schoolroom, it is equally important that she, as teacher, should know something of the atmosphere of the home of her pupil. Such a knowl edge is mutually advantageous, and its benefits will directly accrue to your child. Social Crimes Brokon Promises. Wilson Advance. If we were to charge any person of our acquaintance with deliberately breaking a promise the result might be a case in the Police Court. And yet what man is there who reads these lines who has not broken a promise this month? There are many excuses for you, no doubt, (), gentle reader ! Per haps your wife made you promise to bring her a spool of No. 10 cotton and you forgot it in the press of business. Perhaps you told the collector on 3Ionday that you would call and pay that bill on Tuesday, and when Tues day came you went to a barbecue. 3Iaybe you promised your mother not to smoke any more cigarettes, but who ever expected a Man to keep a foolish promise like that? Maybe you prom ised yourself at church last Sunday that you would do a little better here after, but somehow or other j-ou have not kept that promise. The list is a long one, for however it may be else where, In this pait of the kingdom more promises are broken than kept. This practice to which we are all so prone is a great crime against society, or in other words against our fellow man. It renders a life, already uncer tain eirough, still more uncertain. We engage a man to cut wood. He prom ises to come, but he does not and we have to engage another and in this way about half of our work must be done twice over because people don't keep their promises. Because the man failed to cut the wood, as promised, you could not have dinner on time as you prom ised and hence your husband could not meet a man on time as he promised and heoce a trade was missed and so it goes, until a little thing rows into a big thing and the Editor on the watch tower sees it and raises the cry of warn ing. You am not obliged to make a prom ise. But if you do, be a man and keep that promise. Try it awhile and get your friends to try it. Try it at home and try it at the store. Try it on the farm and if you are a miller in the name of all those people who have had to wait all day to get their corn ground try it at the mill. If you are a poli tician try it on the voters. They will hardly believe their senses at first, but try it for luck. You can't have any idea ot how smoothly this globe would revolve how pleasant would be the days, how sweet the nights if everybody kept his promises. 3Iary, queen of Scotts, had red hair and a cross eye, and in spite of the en comiums of her contemporaries is le lieved not to have been a handsone woman. When Baby was fcick, re gave hr Castorta. When she was a Child, she cr;ed ior Castori. When she beoeraw Miss, cho cuing to Castoria. Then iio he J Children, she g-aTetheax Cartori. CHINESE ICNOltA.NX'K. sTJPESSTincirs about the Ht1lpr'n WtrlltJ. The ceremonies .- J-jf:en !'rfd (-oa-ion if death !1 hme tl.-;r oncm in the demointloiry of the Tattur:-:-Paper clothes. pa" r pulac . pal pi J ., nd p.qer ir.nr.i v are burr.! hIh', a man die-i to provide th .-ail oft!..' deal with mcatw i,f bribing its way through the devil's kingdom t it- iv-t. and the clothes burned are often pat terned after high official.' gowns in or der to impress more favorably the .-pirns encountered on the interion journey. Taourist priests are called tocon.-u!t the soul of the departed to ascertain it wishes. They discover the locality for burial and indicate all details ot thi last service to the dead. The Shanghai railroad met its doom from this source. The priest informed the people that the rumbling noise of the cars and the steam engine were distasteful to the dead who filled the numerous mounds along its coure. To appease the wrath of the dead, Chines; capitalists bought the road with its equipments, and tore up the tracks, and stored the entire plant under sheds at Shanghai. Thus it is .-oen that thi- re ligion stands in the way of all innova tions in that old country, and the first thing necessary in order to introduce railroads into China is to dethrone the priests and infuse a little common-sen.-e into the people. During the prevalence of tho great famine in Northwestern China in 1N7-1-'78 there was an unusual flood in the valley of the Yang-tc-Iiang. The priests endeavored to solve the mystery of this uneven distribution of rain. The censure fell upon the royal house hold of Peking. It is the duty of the Emperor to enter the Temple of Heaven twice a year and invoke the blessings of Heaven upon the people. He til ways asKS for rain among other things, and the impression obtained that the Emperor had hurriedly asked for ruin but had not taken the pains to state where he wanted it. The result was that floods came in some places, while famine from drought came in other places of the empire. This leeling was producing a genera! spirit of revolt, when in 1S7S, the rains came to the rescue in the drought-smitten prov inces. A few of the more intelligent China men at Shanghai, with whom I hae conversed, exhibited an independence of thought which was exceptional. It showed a tendency to break away from the tyranny of ignorance and supersti tion, which tendency must eventually spread sufficiently to awaken an age (if reason. And when it comes the Taour ist high priest must fold his tent and silently march away. But tho dominance of ignorance and quackery ot priests will hold China in slavery to an unreasoning fear and ir rational faith for generations yet un born. Yet the seeds of a better intelli gence are being planted in this dark corner of the earth. The people ob serve that Eurojeans give no heed to imaginary devils, and nevertheless pros per without the intervention of priests : and thus the realization will eventual ly dawn upon them of how grievously their forefathers have been hoodwink ed, cheated, and robbed by the reign of demonologj-, created and jerjf;tuated for their own gain by the army of Ta ourist priests. Hog : Cholera CURED CURED ; 1 1 m ;s BY USING THE MAJOR CHOLERA GORE. FOR SALE AT N. B. JOSEY'S and E. T. WHITEHEAD & CO.'S Scotland Neck, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE S - NO. 30 f t -! tt Iff' I ' 1 1 " e.iit' : ; .f tii i. i it U tut ri t i - 1 1 len a hrnf I lVc- I Irtutt 1 rliti will t f"f Hwr .wrrt di rlTrl hvrr, cKr u j-tur rtm, nuiko Ufc l k L:TcTrtit l. Ttt it jn a j l-TO-sAiit nay. u Tbrj r U fcmnlWt, th i4.ift to tk. :-l tin ttt nn.'urw l-t ifcr.lv Kvp a vial "f thrxw tlnv lYIVu tti your vtt pi-k-t Th II n Vti jrn.irnf -ur f.r ii.lt' u-Ji . J.iu'vli-'f". l'i.ija!i.ii. In i'.ints--fi. 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Also a cat-aluu of meviiai leal and scieiitiflc book ent f n-e. 1'aU-nts taken tbronnb Muun tc Cf. rerelrn fl'fcial notice in the Nrlrntiflc Anif rtrnn. ami thus arc brought wlileljr before tba piil.iic iu, out cost to the inTPtitor. Tbm Bt'lPtidid par r. iued weekly. elegantly illnntrat'l. bai b f ull, lrj-'est rirculatmu of any rcu-ntiuc work in tint world. $3 s ;ear. Cample coptm aetit fren. Huildins Kilition. monthly, f'iijOa y-ar. Hirjlo copies, U. centa. Krery runilrt-r eontamt Im-hu. ti f ul platen, in color, and i,(ir,ir,frapl of i." honson. with plana, enabling builders to nh -w u. latest dPBiim and erur contract. A'Mn ML'.NN &. CO.. iV.w VoHh.. Util IlituAUWAY. HO MORE EYE-GUSSES HO MORE MITCHELL'S Eye-Salve A Certain. Eafa. and Effective Kema'y for SORE, WEAK, & INFLAMED EYES, Producing Long-sightedness, A Restor ing the Sight of the 0IJ. Cures Tear Drops, Granulation Stye Tumors, Red Eyes, Matted Eye Lathes, AID rHODirilS lKa EtLILFASD ILtMMHTtltf Alo, equally' efS'-acl'iu when In ether maladi-n, aurh t I leera. J'rriir rea. Timnri, Halt It hen m, llarea, f?le. ,t Wherever Irjl'amaiatl'in e x iM, 9t 1 1 C It : LIS 0 ftJLL.VK may Le w to cJ vtita ,. Sell bj all Drofglst ct US Cents. -11 '.u 00V mm l. am am a t kavaisK . r r U I Ifji'lj-iT'Wf Tm " TASTELESS HILL IS JUST AS COOD FORADULTS. WARRANTED. PRICE 50 cts GALATIA. It xs., Nov. K, 151. Parin Me1tcfn'? Co.. ht. Ium, M-t. ... We l)it tcv. f l.t':'- ' b;:!il.t thret? alnady this year, lri a.i fti" iHTifiie f 11 yenm. In tbo CtmH bu;u- hiiv t,tTi.r t-A' mi artie'.e tbat fii ' u ti ui.n eriil latUou ad Jwur luic V ours truly. AJ4SEV.CAKK A -For -ale and ia-.m!ee i hy K. T- WJf 1TKIIK AI A- ro., fi li oui fccothmd Neck-, N". C. j km fTSJRADEMARiSV COPYRIGHTS. V SPfcK WEAK T IF YOU ARE HUSTLER hvn.i :-r- ot "ft Business. i " ' t, :.ii:ioiv : V , III I ! V-' I.! 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The Commonwealth (Scotland Neck, N.C.)
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