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ADVERTISING IF YOU ARE HUSTLER VOtT WILL ADVERTISE YOUB Business. IS TO BUSINESS -AY HAT STEAM IS TO- Machinery, mmonw: ATrVTT" Co FT A S c That Gre.u rRoriaxiN- Rower. Write up a nice advertisement about vonr business and insert it in The Commonwealth. Rn;l voull "see a change in business all arounc 1." PROFESSIONAL. su. o. Mcdowell, O;l':oe North comer New Hotel, Main Street. Scotland Neck, N. C. jfPAhvays at his office when not professionally engaged elsewhere. HR. A. C. LIVERMON, b OrriCE-Over J. S. Bowers & Co's store. Oinoe hours from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to i o'clock, p. m. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. D AVID BELL, Attorney at Law, ENFIELD, N. C. nil the Courts of Hali- fix ind adjoining counties and in the in the Claims Supreme and Federal Courts. C collected in all iwts of the State. w, A. DUNN, ATT OR y E Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices wherever his services are rearmed. D R. Y. J. WAIiD, Surgeon Dentist, EXFIELD, N. C. Olnce over Harrison's Druf Store. E DWARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. glST Money Loaned on Farm Lands. H OWABD ALSTON, Attomey-at-Law, HALIFAX, N. STILL HERE jomrsToir The Jeweler. With a thorough knowledge of the business and a complete outfit of tools and material, I am better prepared than ever to do anything that is expected oi a first class watch-maker and jeweler. A full line of "Watches, Clocks, Jewelry AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. Spectacles and eye glasses properly fitted to the eye, free of charge. All work guaranteed and as low as good work can le done. Sewing Machines adjusted and re paired. ffLook for my big watch sign at the New Drug Store. W. H. JOHNSTON. Scotland Neck. N. C 10 6 tf BRICK ! HAVING INCREASED MY FACIL ITIES I AM NOW PREPARED TO FURNISH DOUBLE QUANTITY OF liRICK. gP"Also will take contract to 36Ffmnish lots from 50,000 JjgTor more anywhere within jrfiToO miles of Scotland Neck Can alwavs furnish what, you want. Correspond ence and orders solicited D. A. BXADDRY, 1-10-95-ly Scotland Neck, N. C MENTION THIS PAPER. 1 3 A AC EVANS, GENERAL CARPENTER. A specialty of Bracket and Scroll wnrV of all kinds. Work done cheap and every piece guaranteed. 2 7 ly Scotland Xww- C. Wanted-An Idea Who can think of some simple thin to oa tent r Protect your Ideas wrlte John timiriie o&et neys, Washington, D. C.. for thclrUW WW aidltst ot (wo hundred InTentr ""f . -- -patent Attor- h.-r mnr bring yoa wwim. Write JOl E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. ..EXCEIIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE I.oo. VOL. XH. New Series Vol. 1. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1896. NO. 31 - THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS. Points and Paragraphs of. Things Present, Past and Future. It has been announced that over 4, 000,000 spindles will curtail cotton yarn productions in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut during the remainder ot July and August. Many Southern mills will reduce pro duction as much as 50 per cent, during ttiis time. Canstant running of facto ries is one of the best ways to improve the times. A hundred men from the various trades and industries of this country have started on a tour through South America to "spy out the land," and to see what opportunities to trade the land of our neighbors offers. This country is fast becoming a great manu facturing country and we need new fields m which to sell our goods. Ev ery one will hope that these men who have gone on their good mission may bring good news for our people at home. The failures in the manufacture of bicycles have been very numerous of late. They have averaged almost one a day. Chicago has sustained more loss by such failures, it is said, than any other place in the country. This is an evidence of how imprudently men sometimes rush headlong into what is not absolutely safe. With the great in fatuation of "spinning a wheel" the manufacturers did not calculate wisely in their investments. Never swung a pendulum so far but that it swung back again. Temperance peopie will rejoice to learn that all but half dozen of Ken tucky distilleries haye agreed to shut down ior IS months, beginning the first of this month. All the warehouses are filled with whiskey. In these days of see-saw opinions there is much said about over-production and under con sumption. In the case of the whiskey distilleries shutting down in Kentucky, it is to be hoped that the cause is truly under-consumption and that this state ot affairs will continue. The reading public remember Secre tary Carlisle's speech not long ago in Chicago on the financial question. The speech bristled with statistics by the column almost, but Mr. Carlisle spoke rom memory, referring to his notes not more than three times during the delivers'. It has been set down as one of the remarkable feats of memory in this age. The speech made eight or ten columns of print and must haye contained from fifteen to twenty thous and words; and the remarkable part was the accuracy with which the statis tics were given. If any one thinks that this is a slow, dull age, let him ponder the following from the Westminster Gazette : "A trial was recently made in Aus tria to decide in how short a space o time living trees could be converted in to newspapers. At Elsenthal, on April 17, at 7 :35 in the morning, three trees were sawn aown ; at :o iuc wu having been stripped of bark, cut up, and converted into pulp, became paper, and passed from the factory to the press, from whence the first printed and folded copy was issued at ten o clock. So that in 145 minutes the tree had be come newspapers." The introduction and use of the tjpe writer has been a means of much great er dispatch in many branches of busi ness. And the machine was consider ed little less than a wonder when it was first introduced. Improvements have been made on it until its perfection had been well nigh reached, it was thought but recent developments show that it is to be so improved that ,otnr on one of the machines will be able-to double the speed of writ ing. Instead of writing the words one wor at a time, whole words will be written at a single stroke. Many the smaller words in common use, such as "and," "the," "of," etc., written at a single stroke. will be It is also within the range of possi hilities and probabilities, too, that elec triritv will be used for touching the to mint the letters or words de- treads on the heel o: mrcu. wonder, truly. AS SHE IS. WOMAN'S SPHERE TO-DAY. Some Things to Come. Mecklenburg Girl in Charlotte Democrat. Much is written, still more is said daily, of the "new woman." Promi nent clergymen and statesmen have discussed the puzzling question of "woman's rights," and newspapers pub lish lengthy articles on the same sub ject weekly ; yet the problem remains unsolved. That woman is forging to the front in the struggle for daily bread, and that some, yea a great number, are clamoring for their rights in competi tion with man, is an undeniable fact. That they are acquiring a broader and more liberal education and aie entering callings, and following pursuits, that fif ty years ago our grand mothers never dreamed of being efficiently filled save by man, is another fact. For many centuries marriage has been considered the highest and most honorable rela tion existing between man and woman ; so it remains to-day, but in earlier days a girl's highest ambition was to attain that end. Thus it followed, her educa tion was directed mainly to obtain the object of her life, and then, to live an "old maid" was to acknowledge that in the lottery of existence she had drawn a blank, in the battle of life hed met with defeat and failure. To-day it is different, many are entering into the different walks of life and filling posi tions of trust and honor without laying aside their modest dignity and purity. Women, as angels of light, are being sent into far heathen lands by our churches and by their gentle influences win many souls for the Redeemer's cause. Woman may be found around every bed of pain and suffering, and with her kind words and soothing touch, watching and waiting through long days and nights with submissive patience, smoothing the pain-contracted brow and calming the fevered pulse until it seems as if God had licensed her to remove the sufferer's pain. Wom an is not so anxious to vote and enter manly professions as she is to-day pic tured. That suffrage will be granted her some day can not be doubted but we are not ready for it yet. It will come gradually as almost every other great political change has. Woman is not quite ready to aban don her position as the queen of the home, the home upon which the basis ot our republic, the safeguard of liberty, the highest ideals of eocial life are bunded, and rush into the field of po itical aspirants and clamor for a seat in the presidential chair, or Senate hall. No devoted, consecrated christian moth er is willing to leave the training of her children in other than her own faith- ul hands, nor does she want the time to hasten when one kitchen, one laun dry, one nursery will serve a hundred lomes as some seem to think she does. What is needed at the polls, is not more voters, but voters of higher intel- lgence and more sterling integrity. Voters whose minds are unprejudiced and liberally educated, who can distin guish between cause and effect ; those who are willing and have the courage to probe social wrongs to the bottom and discover the underlying reasons for their existence ; those who will stand undismayed facing opposition, following justice and truth wherver they may lead. The education and environments of woman in the past have'nt been such as to best father for these important trusts, but when the time does come for her to exercise the right ot franchise both as a privilege and a duty she will be found cultivating reason, judgment, and courage, thus becoming a yarned member of State. The Two "Dark Days." St. Louis Republic. There are two "dark days" mention ed in the annals of New Lngland The first occurred on Oct. 21, 1716, when it suddenly became so dark soon after noon that the people were forced to use artificial lights to do their ordi nary work. This strange condition of the atmosphere lasted about 3 hours, Again, on May 19, 1780, there was a remarkable darkening of the atmos phere, but the phenomenon did not come on so suddenly as that upon the earlier date. The darkness in this lat ter instance began between 10 and 11 o'clock on the morning of the day named and lasted throughout the day. The darkness extended from the northeastern part of New England westward as far as Albany and south to Pennsylvania. The most intense and prolonged darkness, however, was confined to Massachusetts, more espec ially to the seaboard. It is said to have come from the southwest, but lnw is inn mentinn of it made in the It 1 at Ssr TkT nhio nr the Virerinias. The exact cause still remains one of the un explained mysteries. THE SLEEPING OF THE WIND. The great red moon was swinging Alow in the purple east ; The robins had ceased from singing; The noise of the day had ceased ; The golden sunset islands Had faded into the sky, And warm irom the sea of silence A wind of sleep came by. It came so balmy and resting That the treetop breathed a kiss, And a drowsy wood-bird, nestling, Chirped a wee note of bliss ; It stole over fragrant thickets As soft as an owl could fly. And whispered to tiny crickets The words of a lullaby. Then slowly the purple darkened, The whispering trees were still, And the hush of the woodland harkened To a crying whip-poor-will ; And the moon grew whiter, and by it The shadow's lay dark and deep ; But the fields were empty and quiet For the wind had fallen asleep. Charles B. Going in Ladies Home Jour nal. Reform in Criminal Trials. There is no other country on God's green earth, says the Washington Times, where as many murders are commit ted in proportion to the population, as in the United States. The figures are simply appalling. Within fifteen years the number has increased over 1,000 per cent. In 1880 and the years pre ceding that, about 1,000 murders were committed ; in 1886 the number was 1,449, ana gradually the horrible list has swelled until the record for 1896 stands at 10,212. England, with a pop ulation about half as large as ours, has only 3S0 murders on an average every year, and Italy has less than one fourth of our number. The most natural question is : What is the cause? Go into the criminal courts and into the prisons. Murder has come to be popular, and the people have made it so. Not only are assas sins treated with great consideration by prison authorities and sought out by 'oollsh numbskulls to be loaded with flowers and dainties, but the law con nives at making them feel that they occupy a distinguished position in the criminal ranks, and by these reasons are entitled to unusual consideration. The trial of the most brutal murderer, even though he may have been caught in the very act of slaying his victim, is surrounded with such regards as to put n the shade all other judicial proced ures, whether criminal or civil. Delay bllows delay, and in the end but a small percentage of the murderers get the punishment they deserve. Where is it all to end? What will be the record a half century hence if we progress at this fearlul ratio? What is to become of our boast that we are the most civilized and most enlighten ed people In the world? The remedy ies in the hands of the courts and ju ries. It is they who must maice the murderers understand that for their crime there is but one penalty, and that certain, and the extenuating circum stances will be but few and far between. He Had The Coon. Forest and Stream. Many of the sayings and doings of the southern negro that find their way into print may be apocryphal, but enough are known to be true to make good his claim to humor. A gentle man discussing coon hunting relates and incident that illustrates this char acteristic drollery. The party, consisting of hunters, dogs, axes and torches galore, had been hunting for a good part of the night without any luck whatever. Finally the dogs treed a coon. It would take some time to fell so large a tree, and one of the negroes volunteer ed to climb it and ascertain the where abouts of the coon. All agreed to this and sat around to await developments. Soon after the negro had disappeared among the branches a peculir sound was heard from the top of the tree. It was a kind of mixture of negro and coon dialect. Some one yenturea the re mark : 'Bill, have you got that coon?" "Yes. sah," was the reply. "I've got dis coon, but I wish you'd send some o' dem darkies up here to help turn him loose." Condensed Testimony. Chas. B. Hood, Broker and Manu facturer's Agent, Columbus, Ohio, cer tifies that Dr. King's New Discovery has no equal as Cough remedy. J, D. Brown, Prop. St. James Hotel, Ft. Wayne, Ind., testifies that he was cur ed of a Cough of two years standing caused by La Grippe, by Dr. King's New Discovery. B. F. Merrid, Bald winsville, Mass., says that he has used and recommended it and never knew it to lail and would rather have it than anv doctor, because it always cures. Mrs. Hemming, 222 E. 25th St., Chi cago, always keeps it at hand and has no fear of Croup, because is jhpuuu.v relieves. Free Trials Bottles at E. T. Whitehead & Co's Drug Store. LAST CARGO. SIMON-PURE AFRICANS. The Last Cargo of Slaves Brought From The Dark Continent to American Soil. Evening Lamp. When the last vessel that brought human chattels to our shores shipped from Mobile harbor the war cloud, which a little later darkened the whole land with its pall-like shadow, had not appeared above the horizon. When this good ship, returning with some thing more than 150 uncivilized, lear possessed Africans on board, dropped anchor in Mobile bay the conflict was in progress which made them valueless to the man who had bartered a ship load of lumber for them. A short distance out of Mobile there is a swamp that includes an area of many acres. Out beyond this swamp there are fertile heights and piny woods, and it was here that the last slave ship discharged its cargo and the ebon-black, half-clad men, women and childen of which it was composed were left, unhelped and without the power to make themselves understood to demonstrate their fitness to survive or to perish as the case might be. Thej-didnot perish, for although they could not talk in a language that could be understood by anv human being on this side of the sea except themselves, they could live on what ever it was the good pleasure of their employers to pay them and thiswas no important factor in their succcess, for being content with small remuneration their services were in constant demand. Thus they not onb survived, but as time went on, in a small way, they waxed prosperous in the strange but not unkindly land where late had cast them. The little homes have an appear ance of thrift and taste which is not found in the home of the American born colored man in the South. Vines, flowering plants and shrubs are care fully cultivated, and everything both within and without is scrupulously clean. There is about both the men and the women, and even the children, an independence and dignity which at once inspire attention and a certain respect. Although it is now between thirty and forty years since they were taken from their native land, without their consent, and incontinently set down where they now have their homes, they still keep up the tribal govern ment of their native country, and are, as far as the community in which they live is concerned, a law unto them selves. When the Dahomeys, who exchang ed them with the American trader lor a ship load of lumber, came down in darkness on their little village in the interior of Africa their king escaped, although many of the royal family were captured. These persons ol high degree have always been deferred to, and they settle all disputes and differ ences. They maintain the best of or der among their dusky subjects, who do not, however, pay them anything more substantial than respect, for prince and princesses work precisely as do their subjects, save somewhat more intelligently. It is said that not one of the African? have ever been brought before civil authorities. A nobleman of the tribe, ana one whose word is law, is one Cudjo Louis, whose last name has been Anglicized from Consoulon to Louis. He and his wife, Ahbiana, are among the few who were born in Africa, in this settlement, who can speak English, although they can all understand it. Ahbiana. who is especially intelligent and thought- A. ful, in speaking of their life in Africa, said they were very happy in their own countrv and would much rather be there than here. When asked about their occupation and capture, she said they tilled the soil as they do here, and were captured by the dreadful Dahomeys, who make their livinc. not bv work, but by stealing people when they are asleep at night. She declared that if she had money enough to take her whole iamily with her, she would be glad to return to her native land, even though the merciless, haunting Dahomeys are still abroad in if hoonuse"it is so much nicer there il, x, than it is here." These transplanted savages are very pious and without an exception are aithor "Rimtists or Methodists. When tiuu- questioned as to what ideas of religion they entertained before they were brought to this country Cudjo Louis said they knew about the one great Spirit that made and controls all, but that they did not hear about His Son until they came here. AUhnnrrh Cudio Louis is a leader of the tribe, the venerated prince and patriarch, from whose dictum there is nn anneal, is his relative, Charlie Louis. He is a little old man, with a serious black face shining out from beneath an aureole of silverv-white woolly -hair, who cannot speak more than half a dozen words of English. He owns a few fruitful acres, which he has fertilized and cultivated so care fully that he has waxed opulent, and is by far the richest man in the commu nity. He works from the early morning- until the darkness closes in, ex cepting when he is praying. He is de- yotedly pious, and he retires to his lit tle vine-covered house in the midst ol his possessions to pray every hour or two. He raises a succession of veget ables, which are marketed by his two daughters, who carry them into Mobile in baskets on their heads. As he has the earliest and finest vegetables in all that part of the country, he gets the highest price for them. When we vis ited this black truck-garden prince his 6mall holding was for the most part devoted to peas. There were six acres of them, and each pod-laden vine was carefully tied to a small stick driven down by it. Not only is old Charlie most thrifty and Irugal, but also most generous. He has quite a sum of ready money at his command, and when any of his tribe need pecuniary help he invariably comes to their aid. The women are no less industrious and frugal than the men. There are arge saw-mills in the vicinity of the settlement, and the Princesses Zuma and Camba maue a regular business of supplying the mill hands with a fresh ly-cooked dinner, and have grown wrell to-do on the proceeds. These Africans pride themselves on being not light of color, but very blacK. It was with unmixed pride that Cudjo Louis' wife pointed to her shining black sons and daughters and said : "My childrens is all Africans." It is loubtful, notwithstanding her conver sion to Christianity, if she would not be glad to have their swarthy faces tat tooed as are the faces of all those who crossed the ocean in that last slave ship. So strong is racial pride among these people that they do not often intermar- ry with the coioreu people oi tins country. Immorality is not known among them. They do not multiply, but rather diminish as the years go on and some ot the families have already died out altogether. Did Yon Ever. fry Electric Bitters as a remedy for your troubles? If not get a bottle now and get relief. Tins medicino has been found to be peculiarly adapted to the relief and cure ol all Female Complaints, exerting a wonderful di rect influence in giving strength and tone to the organs. If you have Loss ot Appetite, Constipation, Headache, Fainting Spells, or are Nervous, Sleep less Excitable, Melancholy or troubled with Dizzy Spells, Electric Bitters is the medicine you need. Health and Strength are guaranteed by its use. Fiftv cents ano $1.00 at E. T. White- head & Co's Drug Store. According to a celebrated anatomist there are upwards of 5,000,000 little elands in the human stomach. J hese elands pour out the digestive juices which dissolve or dicest the food. In digestion is want of juice, weakness ol elands, need of helo to restore the health of these organs. The best and most natural help is that given by Shaker Digestive Corbial. Natural, be cause it supplies the materials needed by the glands to prepare the digestive juices. Because it strengthens and in vigorates the glands and the stomach, until they are able to do their Avork alone Shaker Digestive Cordial cures lndiges- tion certain v and permanently. It does so by natural means, and therein lies the secret of its wonderlul and un varied success. At druggists, price 10 cents to $1.00 per bottle. We have just received a shipment of Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic It was bought with a distinct under standing between the manufacturer and ourselves that each and every bottle is guaranteed to cure any of the following diseases : lst-CHILLS AND FEVER. 2nd-BILIOUS FEVER. Sid-TYPHOID FEVER. 4th-HEMORRHAGlC FEVER. 5th-DENGUE FEVER. 6th-MEASLES. 7th-NEURALGIA. 8th-LAGRIPPE. jflT'Now, we are willing to sell to you on the same conditions we buy it on. We will guarantee one single 50c bot tle to cure any of the diseases above enumerated. Failing to do so we will cheerfully return your money. Yours truly, E. T. WHITEHEAD & CO., Scotland Neck, N. C. 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