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IF YOU ARE HUSTLES BUSINESS ; - , 1 M JTO- T;- cliinery, A Business. E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XII. i'OWKR. EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. SUlibCKIPTlON i'KJCl. Si w SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1896. NO. 26 - - Democ p. ertbement aboii t DEMOCRAT, '. "c in bu.-ines all ., ,. -.v. Ki.L. .v Hotel, Main - X C i :- office when not -ed elsewhere. KKMON, 23 (S i- i S. lowers it Co's store. .. p t 1 o'clock ; 2 to i N'ECK', X. C. Attorney at Law, i!N i 1 1" LI), X. C. rhe Courts of Hali Ci. unties and in the ral Courts. Claims Y O f the State. v ; r-.i t-l a w. .:;- Xkck, X. C. ;-:tjver his service are V : In'. Surgeon Dentist, En-fii:i.i X. C. Drns' Store. :.va:i! L. TRAVIS. U'!V,v V U!:fT Ointv fur at ljnr, 1 FA I.I FAX, X. C. .,: Far )ii Lands. v.U;l AhsTn'N. Attornev-at-Law, HALIFAX. X. C STILL HERE J0H3STSTOU eweler. T.ih knowdedge of the m;.leUf outfit of tools m hotter prepared than dug that is expected oi h -maker and jeweler. vv a tclies. Clocks. s eweiry Ah INVTRU-TEXTS i eve glasses properly . free of charge. All 1 and as low as good .". adjusted and re mv big watch sign at Vv' . I. JOHNSTON. X . c. 10 G tf r ? n i r M i 3 S 5 B i : i : a s i : i my facil- I NOW PTC K TAKE I) : NTS II DOUBLE AX THY OF JMCK'K. wi!! take contract to : :-h lots from 50,000 ' : anywhere within " mii(.'sof Scotland Xeek ' wliaty ' ' 'i-gt$ --"hi-ited.j? B. A ind Xeck, X. C. I-A1KH. II!: i CAItl'KNTER. ' 1 bracket and Scroll Work done cheap uuiir.inteed. v. a. anted-An Idea Who can think Prr. of some simple I-'Oh' vL-t7v;lnp may brlnz you '-IT-ti Til CO., Patel Jour u... .. mingn; tuiog to patent r weaitn Patent Attor I 3 1 S J 6 SHIRT WAISTS. What is it that I hear each day, As near the Buford House I stray? What is it maks. my hair turn gray? 'Lis shirt waist. Whe.i to my room I r.ow repair. To try and find some comfort there. . What is the first sound that j Lear? Tis .shirt waists. And when I venture just a word, And think perhaps I shall be heard, I find all other talk deferred For shirt waists. When from my slumber I arise, As rosy dawn lights up the skies, What is it that greets my eyes? 'Tis .hirt waists. And when I lay me down at night, In sleep to "hut all things-from sight A vision comes, in colors bright, Of shirt waist?. When to my meals I go with glee, Thinking that there J .shall he free, (.treat heavens ! on every hand I see Those shirt waists. Whene'er I pass the ladies now, And doff my hat and smile and bow, They do not sav a thing, I vow, J Jut shirt waicts. What is it makes me swear and rave, And wish that I was in my grave, And for oblivion always crave? Tis shirt waists. What is it that brought this blight On me. who once was gay and bright? What keens me always in fright? 'Tis shirt waist?. What was it made me feel so bad? What took the cash I once had? Twas nothing but this crazy fad Of shirt waists. Xo more I walk the streets at will, But slinic around with foxy skill To dodge the chap who totes the bill For shirt waists. And when at last my life is o'er, I ask lor this and nothing more, To reach some fair and happy shore Where there's no shirt waists. I), in Charlotte Observer. A Twelve-Year-Old Hustler. Iola Ufa inter. There is a boy in this town that you would do well to keep your eye on. His name is Lawrence Wheeler.' He is only 12 years old, but he is the old est of a family of seven children, and his parents a-re poor. But that boy is a hustler. We got acquainted with him nearly a year ago, when he began to strike us for jobs. And ever since then we have never seen him when he wasn't busy, either doing something or hunting something to do. We never saw him sneaking around a corner to smoke a cigarette, and wo never saw him loaf ing or heard an idle or insolent word from his lips. For a long time lie sold cobs around town wherever he could find a customer, but hereof late he has taken the oil wagon and is going to see what he can do with that. He has no horse of his own, but he told u in a simple and unaffected way that several men had offered to help him buy one. Of course they have. Don't you sup pose that every man in town who knows that boy is his friend and wants to help him along? His family have recently moved into town, and Law rence has undertaken to keep up the rent oVi.") a month as his share of the family expenses, m addition, of course, to clothing himself. We found out all these things by asking him, not by anv self-praise or complaint of hi?. He .doesn't seem to think lie is doing anything uncommon, or that lie de erves special credit. Ho takes it all as a matter of course and goes about it as if he were already a man. And he is a man, Ood bless him, for all his twelye years. Banquet Without Wine. .SV I'Cted. It was a men'? banquet, too, the an niversary of the Bookkeepers Benefi cial Association of Philadelphia. Wa fer was the only beverage save the cof fee that followed the dessert. Of course all good business men will be glad to have their bookkeepers ?oler. ihey will do their work better and be more iikelv to keep their employers' busi ness secrets. Workmen and employes f . of all kinds are learning now mucn better it is for them to be ?ober, total abstainers ; but how long it has taken them to find it out. Your Bey Went Live a Month. So Mr. Oilman Brown, of :d Mill St., South Gardner, Mass., was told by the doctors. His son had Lung trouble, fol lowing Typhoid Malaria, and he spent three hundred and seventy five dollars with doctors, who finally gave him up, saying :"Yonr boy wont live a month." He tried Dr. King's Xew Discovery and i few bottles restored him to health and enabled him to go to work a perfect I' v-b man. He says he owes his present good health to use of Dr. Kings ew Discoverv, and knows it to be the be, ,i fnr Tain'' trouble, lrlal 111 LIIC vwii. -- . - , Bottles Free atli.T. v. imeueautv -Drug Store. ABOUT GRAND MOTHER. GRAND DAUGHTER'S WORK The Educated Married Wcsan. L- slie'.i It A strong prejudice exists m many quarter; again.-t the direct earning of money by married women. In several cities they are not allowed to teach in the public schools. Similar discrimi nations, often wisely, are made m manv factories and mercantile establishments. It is properly considered that a married woman s place, especially if ahe have children, lies m her home, unless the search for bread forces her abroad. But there is also still, eren among in telligent people, a tacit reproach to a husband if lie allows his wife to work for money in any department, even if she does her work at home, though it would seem that modern conditions must goon become obvious enough to show even the most conservative that the old theories of the necessary idle ness of, and ivy- (poison ivy?) like clinging of the w ife to her husband, are no part of the new woman's doctrine, and that, even if she must work to help her husband keep up the common home, she may prefer her own way of doing it. The average education of the woman of to-day is probably fifty per cent, better than that of her grand mother. Where the grandmother's sole means of proving her desire to be a helpmeet to her husband was the churning of his butter and the weav ing of his garments, there are now a hundred accomplishments at her grand daughter's finger-ends. The loom, spinning-wheel, and churn have al most disappeared,-and they have left a fortunate leisure. Even on our farms modern conveniences have wondefully conserved the time and strength of women. Painting and drawing, in all the ramifications of those arts ; writing for the magazines and newspapers ; em- bioidery mhI other foney work all done for nay occupy a considerable portion of the time of certain women in every community. Almost any ed ucated woman of small means would rather write an article for a magazine and use the money, even if she made nothing on the transaction, to pay a dressmaker than to do her dressmaking herself. She would rather paint a yase and hire a scrub-woman with the pro ceeds than to do her own house-cleaning, even when she is amply strong enough for the work. In the old days it was considered honorable enough, indeed indigpensa ble, that a woman should help her hus band by performing hard and menial work in her kitchen. Now that she can do, and prefers to do, a higher kind of labor, and to employ some pooer wo man to do the drudgery, is she any less a helpmeet to her husband? In every household of moderate means the mis tress must either do a vast deal of rou tine and mechanical work herself, or she must earn the money to pay some one else for doing it. Her education and her training are worth little to her unless she can do thi and do it effi ciently. The modern educated woman does it, and usually does it well and instead of being ilouted for it, she should be praised. Her husband is no loser by it, in either ''estate or happi ness. The stiength and cheerfulness conserved in the woman by performing a congenial instead of an uncongenial task make her a far more lovable and companionable wileand if this process is widely practiced the gayety of na tions must be materially increased thereby. The educated married woman of to day is usually just as faithful to her husband and her home as her grand mother was. She only demonstrates her spirit in a different way one which is no less honorable either to her husband or to herself. X. Y. Z. What the Shakers of Mount Lebanon know more than anybody else, Is the use of herbs and how to be heathy. They have studied the power of food. They nearly live to a ripe old age. The Shaker Digestive Cordial is pre pared by the Shakers trom herbs and plants with a special tonic power over the stomach. It helps the stomach digest its food, and digested food is the strength-mater. Strong muscles, strong body, strong brain, all come from properly digested food. A sick stomach can be cured and di gestion made easy by Shaker Digestive Cordial. It cures the nausea, loss of appetite, pain m the stomach, headache, giddi ness, weakness, and all the other symp toms of indigestion, certainly and per manently. Sold bv druggists. Trial bottle 10c. Wanted-fln Idea Who can think of some simple tblcff to patent? Protect your Idea; ther may bring you wealth. Write JOHN WEDDERBtTRN CO., Patent Attor neys, Washington, D. C. for their SIJSOO prise offer a&d list of two hundred luTonO" Undesirable Immigrants. o'thi' Coioja a ion. In the month of March nine thous and Italian immigrants landed at Xew at a heavier rate. Three thousand ar rived in two days ; four thousand more were known to 1? on the way, and from eight to ten thousand were waiting shipment at Italian iort.. Financial conditions and the dread of being conscripted to serve in the war with Abyssinia are cau-es which in part explain this sudden accession of immigrants. Another cause, in the opinion ot the Commissioner of Immi gration at Xew York, is the fear that Congress will enact the proposed law exacting an educational test of immi grants. The Italians hasten to get in to the country before any measure ex cluding them can be passed. About one-half of the Italian immi grants arriving at Xew York this spring are unable to read or write. Fifty cents each was found to be the average sum of money possessed by a party number ing about one thousand who were de tained at one time for examination. One in ten only of the immigrants had a ticket to carry him bevond Xew York. Existing laws direct the enforced re turn of the immigrants who are likely to become a public charge, and several hundred of the Italians were sent back under that clause ; but to many of the most thoughtful students of American social and industrial conditions it seems clear that the present restrictions should be increased, and the applica tion of a reading and writing test, for the purpose of sifting out and sending back the illiterate, seems the form of restriction most consistent with our in stitutions. Honsehold Hints. Selected. Celery is one of the most valuable of foods and is a positive remedy for suf ferers from rheumatism, neno troubles and nervous dyspepsia. To remove tar from any kind of cloth, saturate the spot and rub it well with turpentine, and every trace of the tar may be lemoved. Water carrying a little salt in solu tion is said to be an excellent wash for tired or inflamed eyes, when stronger solutions may prove injurious. If brooms are dipped In a pail of hot suds for a minuto or two once a week it will make them tough and pliable and they will last much longer. The discovery that cold coffee is an excellent tonic for growing plants should do away with the last remnants oi the custom of warring over cold coffee. For a sprained ankle, immersion for fifteen or twenty minutes m very hot water following this an applicaton of bandages wrung out in hot water is rec ommended as the best treatment. The only method ot cleansing jewel ry without scratching it is to wash in hot soapsuds to which a few drops of ammonia have been added, and then placing the jewelry in a box of jeweler's sawdust to dry. Tea or coffee stains in linen may be removed by moistening the spots with water and holding them over the fumes of a burning match. Then wash im mediately with water in which a little ammonia or soda has been dissolved. Silks or ribbons that are to be pack ed away should be rolled in brown pa per, as the chloride of lime in white paper will discolor them. White satin should be folded in blue paper and a brown paper put out side and pinned closely together at the edges. A simple disinfectant to use in a sick room is made by putting some ground coffee in a saucer and in the center a small piece of camphor gum. Light the gum with a match. A-i the gum burns adow the coffee to burn with it. The perfume is refreshing anc' health ful as well as inexpensive. A shelf over the door in a dining room is an excellent place for large and highly colored pieces of china, which may thus be made very ornamental to the room. Many of the new hou.-es are finished with a narrow shelf around the dining-room walls at the height of the door : it is intended for plauue. Frse Fills. Send your iwidress to H. K. Bueklen Cliic. and get a free sample box of Dr. King's New Life Fills. A trial will coITVinee you of their merits. These pills are easy in action and are particu larly effective in the cure of Constipa tion and Sick Headach. For Malaria and Liver troublesthey have been prov ed invaluable. They are guaranteed to be perfectly free from every deleterious subsiance and to be purely vegetable. They do not weaken by their action, but by giving tone to the stomach and bowels greatly invigorate the system. Ilc-gular size 2oe. per box. Sold by E. T. Whitehead, Druggist. to i ' The buT old major from lhequer.V ; u rf n - liii? nnrul ,:tt.nl 'it..!, ... t'kt camptire tales .f his fomp:mi n. llr' put a fre-di charge o! ffagrnv. b-Kuvo in the veteran pipe that he bad Uhmi smoking, and the three iH-rupaut- of', the compartment !.;p-d into exj tatit j silence, waiting to hear !rorr. h'm. ' ' "The bravest mm I cut met net on the flVld of battle," he l-egan 'He ii- a x!dier, but I know little about hi- tniiit iry n-ci.rd, and v-t when ! I sav he was t ho bravest man I ever taik- knew I think I know what I am ing about, Wf. h campaigning in ! India, and f.r som month1" the rn-i mand had simply been idling time J away. We wore s'.l thoroughly turd! of routine military inactivity, and li- nally a party of five of us sreured a j two week leave of ahtonre, which w proposed to spend in a hunt for big game. "One of our number a -enior regimental olhcer, who had hern through ten years' service in India. He :iad been the guiding spirit ot our expedition. Seated a few feet away irom nun and to ins lelt was a voiin"! junioi corr pan v olhcer. who had but recently joined t lie command. We had been eating fruit, which was ol ;i kind that lears a cry peculiar scent. It is a tradition that this nathe fruit has a strong attraction foi several va rieties of venomous rejtile?. which ;(veknow Iiow to take v:lrr o m--lf," -Ai,.' eculiar to that climate. I at least am j which is inten! on -iving hi own . .. convinced that there is something baster skin, is hie jnd : it i- on! wild more than tradition in it. the greatest caie and labor it cm be "As J have said, we were falsing of j keil clean and free tn.m foul, stagnant adventures when, m a moment of si- ; overgrowths, and able to n-Mect the lence, the bluff old regimental officer,' l,ur(' ,1,,f lf heaven. But purity m looking steadily at the young lieuten- j action, the purity that goei forth to ant to his left, slowly said : i help and save others, b liko the .,ely "'Do vou think vou could keep v, ,ur 1 mountain stream that come ii;i-hn.g presence of mind under the mot try-' down from the heights, w ith it, he.uf ing circumstances, wiien your life do- ! ,MO home of the sunbeam, too living I)ended ujion your coolness and eour- j'1 boniuls along to take the dehlrmen' flrft'' I of earth. "Dead silence followed the colonel's question, and the young officer, look ing quizzically at his interrogator, re--phed : " 'Yes, I think I could.' " 'Then the time has come when vou must be put to the test. Move not, j muscle until I tell you, or you uro a a dead man.' "Then the bronzed old warrior slow !y drew his pistol Irom his holster, and,! taking deliberate aim, he fired a shot at the very feet of the man to wjiom he had addres.-ed his ominous question. For tiie space ef a second we all at like tatues ; then the colonel, in a tone of , relief, exclaimed : "'It's all right now, bovs. I've kill- ed it.' "We were all on our feet in an in-,ed. Active steps are U-ing taken in stant, eager to know what danger had I Xortl, Carolina to have the !.,te re,, threatenel our young comrade. At hi- j rented at Chicago. Men like the f,,! feet lay the coiling, squirming body of uV,u :tr0 working in that State r a huge cobra, the most venomom rep tile that iiaunts the jungles ol India. I think the man who calmly faced that danger was the bravest man I've ever met," said the Major, and no one dis sented. A Ncvel D::r Boll. yew York Journal. A door bell for deaf mutes is the in- j vention of a deaf mute. There is come-1 thing paradoxical m the suggestion of j such a thing, but it exits, and lias a ! very reasonable scientific explanation. The ear of a deaf mute is not sensi tive to the little vibrations of air that in she normal ear is recognized as sound, but it instantly ercei yes anything like a jar, or such a thing as the rumbling of a train. When any one goe to- the house of a deaf mute and pulls the knob, no bell ring. The deaf mu'e's car would not perceive that. But a heavy metal ball talis off its support to the floor. It makes a vibration and a jarring in the door that is at once j-erceivod by the sensitive nerves of the deaf mute housewife, and answers all the purposes of the bell patented. The contrivance has been The Largest American Kule. (jt. Loni Republic. The largest mule that ever walked oii American -oil is now, or was recently, the property of one Oeorge II. John son, a farmer living a tew miles awav east of Honey Orove, Texas. His muleship is exactly ls hands, or fi feet 2 inches in height, being exactly d.es higher than the famous Lo- ! lie Pecos (Old Mexico) mule, which was so widely advertised in 18'JUdl as be ing "the most gigantic specimen of the mule family the world ha ever known." The Honey Grove mule is not slim and raw-boned, but is built in proportion to his height, weighing ltilO pounds. ...... In l.u. i".i"Mrj with ' ' 1 . I, r I j, , ; f.,r II ! 1. U) t'T, j;!; ! v. h : j that an Ita'uu w r-.: I i tl. : Dav and rduht he b . t :i c ! b ength it .t t.jt-h-l Ab. Jx-autlfnl rl, h 1 b.t.k en t !; r -n v M-.i;;,i,,n:i; :t". ..f .t. An ! rr t hi- ! . to i'c! n m "t th '!' f : : i i ' i ' -'. : ! to -h .iit . M ! . J.'.Ui. '. i. Thr man -1: 1 ! ' 1 h.t r 1 , .-.in hi. aiiJel . ! . i W, lli'.t t : h. i ; e ' i d on!v thing I.at he t K up a !- !'r.i whvh in on the untiei-hed p.nrmr.n!, , hi-hed it right thronirh The art i-t -t.u led f. -i a ,u ! t!.r t . i . ! ut.rk, and in trying - I.: j he MU'.I hi- l:fe. The b..-! r, w ja.-!rft in memo! v of .. m o je-capr. i may hae stii i-hed joir l ;el!orts, broken the -trong le.Srs j the good conduct vou har -mi Mid j I v building iq., that He may -ave . : j eternal life, which is -'not . iniht lit i.i "J IM,w'r. '''li by .My pn:t. -a t ! j the Lord." j Have a militant purity within y I that, like a sword of (iod, rushes d,,n to smite eerything foul, la-r and Meie pav-ioii purity, the puiitv id which th noblent utterance- i- 1 T!ie l'xpo-itlon Bulletin f r the Southern Slate- F.xposition nt ('hicig . August. September and Octobn. sen 1 out epinion-i a- to the heaily ....;:. ation (d the Southern State-. f . ,i 1 1, Carolina it says "The old North Stale wjil ceit.otilv be j the evoo.ition at Ohic-o. She U;M there before, and deriwdm. mu-d, i.,.iif f,,.,,, the ..v.... ..... . i ex .erience, could not be kept out of the undertaking. The State h.t- i.ie- n .w x 111 Itit in be rUVx condition tliat it could sent to Chicago, an exhibit o -o-.i? v.ilim ..n,l miliii- 'Ill- .. Ol . I ... I . i. . I MUNV lUIIUf . iillS i III MUM i' ( go to Chicago and be largelv tiiigmeuJ- d. Latta, Baleigh : W . .1 J Andrew.. J;,, Iolgh ; K. M. Miller, Chailotte. and Hon. Inlius Carr. A wealthy citizen of Noitfi Carolina, who 1, co-operating in the work of h: State, said recently, 'My .Mate -had j send a great exhibit to flue,,, If It has to lie done witii iny private me;i:i-.' ; Men like these, it goen without savmg, , ti-t.-. 1 ,. ..r.r,i,.tli.i, 1,. t!.,. ... rl- . f 1 are whnt make Sfat- An Ilngh-h journal says that -ome memlier- of a Oennan ship'-i ere Jiad occasion to visit a ship-building yard in Lngland, and in t ho cour-o of their jie-regrination entied a paint -shop wfiere two Iii-!ime-n were at work. The vi-itor- talked togthr iut!,e:i own tongue. The Irishmen un ier-' ,od nothing of what -aid. ::i-l at !a-f one of them could not re-train hi- eu r! o.-i ;y. "I -ay, Mike." -a'.d he to hi- fellow laborer, "arid do you kno v - h it th -e feiio'As are ,. ing'-" "Arrah. now, l'at," v.mw.fA the -e.-. 0:1,1 r,ii,:i '('"u -Ii"ttJ,i- :,,,Jr norance. T.hev're spakiri' -horthand." SUCCESS J'er-everrtn'-e alway firing-i'. Wf.i'e Kdi-oii and other- hrr.e -tartled the world time and again wi'h wo!,de:fu! invention-. th;e w ho --arc;.i-1 after a con-'itu'i.TMlcire ;.-.r BHKI'M.TIM were ba:M-i until recently. RHEUM ACIDE. Is the happy culmination of the inveri- tie gemu- and -r.-i-tent e..nr: a I Soutr. ern cherni.-t. It i i-omo'-ei of1. 11 ingredients, only two of which were j ever tried by medic. il men for rheurna- i tism. It i-s therefore, a new discovery, and the mo.-t pwerful b!d purifier known. A trial will convince. Sold inScotland Neck by K. T. White head & Co. l'rice $1 ier lottle. 4 9 2m tour !rtiM-mrnt t. ' t 1'- . 11 t I! u:,.l -!' i I'm: i: An ' M .- : .-! f 1 ! ill. f '. - ' 1 ! . I . I l !.! I . . i- !, ,:. ' I , I ' ! h l ! S : V. . !. I ..t I ! 'I'M' I nine U p; ! i 1 1, e ' . ! j ! , ' t.lh'e'- c .Oilll'd t-. . I'il.-e. J.". .-.! ..: . ,!e ! : W ANN 1 1 ! ! to ' j . , ' l ' . ' li.t-t.I ;. ,1 i.'. An..- . V h'!,. S" i j ' ! . I Me.;:i i:; .: ! en, e. i I ,;,,;;n.(. 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