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ADVERTISING IF YOU AHE HUSTLER , YOU WILL ADVERTISE t YOUR Business. o Sekl Youe Advertisement in Now. IS TO BUSINESS -WHAT STEAM IS TO Machinery, e Commonweal That Great Propelling Power. Write up a uice advertisement about v,v.r business and Insert it in. The Oommonwealtli. vl vau'll "see a change in Dusmess an PROFESSIONAL. HK. v. o. Mcdowell, U 0:i;-e North corner New Hotel, Main Street, Scotland Neck, N. C. g f Always at his office when not DnTfeionally engaged elsewhere. D K. A. C. LIVERMON, Omen-Over J. S. Bowers & Co's store. Or.ioe hours from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to 1 o'clock, p. m. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. D AVID BELL, Attorney at Law. ENFIELD, N. C. all .the Courts of Hali- Ux and adjoining counties and in the c- TWlpr.il Courts. Claims r'ii'Lvii i . v - - collected in all parts of the State. W A.DUNN, ,1 TTORNE Y-A T-L A IF. Scotl-vxd Neck, N. C. Practices wherever his services are required. D K. W. J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, EXFIELD, N. C. Office over Harrison's DruJ Store. E DWARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney iml Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. Money Loaned on Farm Lands. H OWARD ALSTON, Attorney-at-Law, HALIFAX, N. C STILL HERE J0HNST01T The Jeweler. With a thorough knowledge of the lnisinfss and a confolete 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. StKJctacles and eye glasses properly fitted to the eye. free ot charge, ah work guaranteed and as low as good AA-n VtA slfYlt I nyiKwm I Sewing Machines adjusted and re- paired. tfVLnnk for mv big watch sign at t!ie New Drug Store. -r -r-f TTrTOrnrk'M W . XX. J VJ-kJ- -- w-. 1 a mmm mb m . i Scotland Neck. iS. U. " BRICK ! HAVING INCREASED MY FACIL- ITIES I AM NOW PREPARED TO FURNISH DOUBLE QUANTITY OF BRICK. yAlso will take contract to 43S5"fumish lots from 5U,UUU or more anywnere wimm "50 miles of Scotland JNecK Can always furnish what, you want. Correspond ence and orders solicited 1-10-95-1 v Scotland Neck, N. C MENTION THIS PAPEB. JSAAC EVANS, GENERAL CARPENTER! a finAcialtv" of Bracket and Scroll work of all kinds. Work done cheap and every piece guaranteed. 2 7 ly Scotland "N- nt. Ci VJanted-An Idea Who eg mk. around.' nap hr mr snat jo E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. y SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00.- VOL. X3X New Series Yol. 1. SCOTLAND NEOK, N. P., THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1896. . NO. 35. THE EDITOE'S LEISUEE HOUBS. Points and Paragraphs of "Things Present, Past and Future. America lays claim to the most even- handed chance for rich and poor alike ; but the story goes around now that one of the new sheriffs of London years ago began making shirts alone. He cut out the garments himself and did his work in a very modest way, but now he employs 1,800 persons in thut business. The Commonwealth would like to remark that he must be a good adver tiser. Men are all the while ti nkering at some plan to improve the condition of the race, relieve them of disadvan tage or turn a bad thing into a good one. Many people, it not most people, know something about the London togs. A rainmaker is now figuring on a plan to dispel the London fog and turn it into rain. The plan is to es tablish stations outside of London and as the fog rolls in from the sea bom bard it and change it into rain. Sev eral capitalists are said to be willing to advance the money. Ordinarily the advertiser in news papers is subject to overdraw the col ors regarding the "great bargains" he has to offer, or the remarkably large stock which he is "selling at cost." But we can excuse such little slips with our country-town merchants when we read the statements about Wanna maker's great sales. "Acres of furni ture" is the way his furniture sales were headed a few days ago. And, in deed, that was true, we suppose ; truer than many a statement made in local papers about tne "greatest bargains ever offered, and positively the largest stock ever seen in this town." We believe it is held by some that every age and era has its counterpart in history somewhere. But we have never read nor heard of any one else reading of just such hotch-potch as the arena of American politics furnishes lor 1896. Every single political party in the nation has been divided already, and there is now no more hope for a ray of light through the darkness of un certainty than when the trouble began. Will it be truly "the survival of the fittest?" We shall see. But who will know, even when we have seen, what the next day may bring forth? The Raleigh Press Visitor says : "The army is now about buo men short of its maximum of 25,000, but the enlistment returns for June show a slight increase in numbers over pre ceding months ; 779 men were enlisted in June, as against 749 in May, 697 in April, 598 in February, 590 in January ani 573 m December. As an interest- . . . . connectlon wjtn these fie- ... .... i,wo f hoc hum nointnri nnt. that in most Gf the months the greatest num ber of enlistments were at the recruit- stations in the various cities. The new system 01 recruiting is wonting satisfactorily, and the character of the ' . . - .. . men la juiijcuyiuk it 10 muu, At this writing it cannot be told what will be the result of the proposition of the Democratic Executive Committee to the Populist Committee about that electoral division, and The Common wealth does not here give an opinion aa to the wisdom or folly of it ; but if there is fusion with the Populists on I the electoral ticket -only, Democrats and Populists will have a very difficult task in keeping the inconsistencies straight. The truth is, we doubt whether there will be many level-head- I A mon rm either side who Will be I JJL AV- voluntary campaigners. Did you ever catch a fish? Did you ever catch a fish out of the ocean? Did you ever catch a blue fish with a trolling line sixty or seventy-five feet long? And did vou actually pull m a big blue fish through the breakers of the "deep, blue sea"? Well, if you did you have expen onMul nnn mnmftnfc of mortal 10Y On which there can be no discount. " KASSJ The editor of The Commonwealth did that very thing the other day, and we felt taller than Tom Sawyer ever aa ooinimfr th other bovs to white- TRAVELERS' TALES. Have you a home? A dear precious spot, Be it a palace, Or be it a cot? Have you a home Where your darling ones dwell Safe from all danger? Oh ! treasure it well. Have you a home Where the hearth is aglow, Throwing its radiance Above and below? A home where your welcome Is honest and true? Where the eyes of affection . Are watching iorou? Have you a-home Where your tired feet may rest ; A spot where you sleep The sweet sleep of the blest? Treasure it, friend, Though afar you may roam, For you'll find ill your journeyings "No place like home." Selected. Advice For Summer Girls. Selected. Don't sleep all day and dance all night. Don't form lifelong friendships in three days. Don't walk on the beach after 12 at night. Don't have "heart talks" with every man you know. Don't have your dancing gowns made too decollete. Don't show too often a scorn for the chaperon theory. Don't read "Harry's" letters aloud to your girl friend. Don't go rowing with the young man who tips the boat. Don't refuse to marry a good man if you get the chance. Don't tell your admirers all the se crets of your girl friends. Don't put on your bathing suit un- ess you are going into the water. Don't join sailing parties unless you can stand a little rough weather. Don't snub your mother or maiden aunt in public. It does not look well. Don't try to protect your complexion. Give the sun and fresh ir an inning. - Don't sing unless nature has given you a voice which will not cause others pain. Don't forget that every man you meet has some 'dear, sweet girl" in the background. Don't trust the gentleman who hag married unhappily and wishes to tell you all about it.- Don't forget that half an hour of exer cise in the open air is worth more than all the nerve tonics in the market. Don't forget that the summer hotel veranda is the happy hunting ground of the most merciless gossips on earth. Don't make your willing slaves fasten your shoestrings more than seven times in the course of one day. The novelty wears off. Diagnostic Sign in Malaria. Philadelphia Record. Dr. Boisson, a French military sur geon, finds that patients suffering from malarial affections, even those of a mask ed or latent character, always present a peculiar discoloration of the nails. It appears to be independent of the local- ty in which the malaria was contract ed, as he has fonnd it. in soldiers both 'rom Tonquin and Madagascar. It ap- appears before the rigor, increasing dur ing the eold stage, and attains its max imum in the middle of the hot stage, af ter which it gradually diminishes, disap pearing towards the close of the sweat ing stage. This discoloration has been remarked bv other -observers, but as generally been looked upon as due to circulatory troubles during the cold stage. According to Dr. Boisson, how ever, it cannot be thus accounted for, as it commences before the cold stage, and is most evident later on. It differs also from the livid blue tint due to lo cal asphyxia, being of a gray slate col or, and is due probably to a changein the hemoglobin of those reu corpus cles which are destined to be destroyed during the acute stage. As to the di agnostic value of the sign, he has never failed to find it at the commencement nf a malarial attack, and has observed it where no fever occurred in an abort ive attack. Marvelous Results. From a letter written by Rev. J . Gun- ofDimondale. Mich., we are narmitted to make tnia-extract : have no hesitation in recommending Dr. King's New Discovery, as the re sults were almost marvelous in the case of my wife. . Wnile I was pastor of the Baptist churcn at Kives junction sue waa hrouent down wun rneumuiua succeeding La Grippe. Terrible parox tram a of Couching would last hours with little interruption and .It seemed as if she could not - survive them. A friend recommended Dr, King's New Discovery : it was quick in its work and hfThiv Betialncturv in results." Trial tattles free at E. T. Whitehead & Co,fa Drug Store. Regular size 50c. and 91 HOW THEY TALK. SILLY QIBL-EZFBSSSIONS. The Spread of Sianginess. Phil. Record. If the Vicar of Wakefield was shock ed to hear the lady Wilhemina Caroli na Araminta Skeggs . exclaim : "Oh, Jimini I" and vow she was "all in a muck of sweat !" what would Dr. Primrora have said or done could he haye overheard the conversation of the boardwalk or of the summer piazza? The boardwalk is aa institution ; it is the American Rialto. One cairsnatch from it the current speech of 1896 and that shows the. girl and the young woman to be growing just as "slangy" as the boy.. '"Great Scott ! where is that poodle?" comes from the lips of sweet sixteen, who has suddenly miss ed her dog in the crowd ; yet she is a f modest and to all appearance a well- bred young girl. It is not necessary to quote the argot with which the young person of both sexes salutes the morn and the rise of the moon, and all the festive events between. The fact is that girls, with the new freedom of out-door life which is their dowry in these days, their bicycling and golfing, their management of sailboat and skill with the oars, their swimming and div ing and driving, have borrowed the speech of the men which is no longer much restrained in their presence. The bluest profanity probably they do not hear ; but they hear enough to frame a vocabulary of their own. Woman is man's comrade now in so many of the breezy atheletic outdoor pleasures of life that either fromJitera ture or from his own lips the once diffi dent maiden nas learned the forms of speech by which he expresses his views of the game of life. She sits by his side at football and cricket games or surveys the baseball diamond with him, and is most intelligent as to the outcome of each fray or inning. Of course, mothers and grandmothers and all the aunts are, shocked. The fath ers hardly notice it when she phrases a bit of slang which shows how the masculine ideal ot the exquisitely re fined in woman is changing. The young fellows themselvs have never had this ideal, or, having taught the culprits this new and dreadful expres siveness in speech, are so far particeps cri minis as not to dislike it. The school mistress and the college professor will labor In vain : the con versation and chaff of these young peo ple will not be put into the same En glish which adorns their essay writ ing. Now, It is impossible to set the young girl back into her former seclusion rom the robust enjoyments of outdoor life. She has conquered this kingdom, in spite of all the doctors. She likes t, and it likes her. Yet it has brought to her adaptive ear the language of the "bleachers" at a ball game the slang with which roughs and toughs express their emotions, yent their rage at the umpire or cheer on their favorites. Far, far, indeed, from any ridiculous form of daintiness and squeamishness in speech has this modern revolution carried her ! The English language will be modified soon if we do not look to it. The slang of duchesses and of titled young "rosebuds" is only inter mitted within earshot of Queeen Vic toria. Elsewhere it prevails, from the "Thanks, awfully!" to the newest adornment of our common speech. Surveying the ground critically, there appears only one bit of high ground by which to escape from this rising tide. It is, perhaps, for men to set the fashion of a curbed and careful speech As they have latterly set up the stand' ard for all this new and ample and praiseworthy open-air enjoyments of the sex which furnishes them with sisters and wives, so they will have to make pattern for the accompanying re finements of the language if we are ever to have these again. It is large contract," not to be expressed to them forcibly without a realistic bit of slang in the wording of it : but there seems no other way. Dig down to the cause of your sick ness, if you want to get well and stay well. Most likely it's indigestion. The rritating poisons ot fermenting, putrid food left in the stomach by indiges tion, cause headache, neuralgia, ner vousness, dizziness, stomach-ache, nau sea, irritability; and all the other well- known symptoms of indigestion They uiso cause many pains and dis orders which are often laid to other causes and hence are not easily cured But as soon as the poisons are removed all these symptoms and disorders disap pear, because there is nothing, left to cause them. Nothing succeeds in this like Shaker Digestive Cordial, because it nmvAnts the undigested food , from fermenting in the stomach and the stomach to digest its food. helps Sold by druggists price 10 cente 91.W per bottle. . , to Effects of the Human Voice.' New York Stm. The human voice may or may not be terrifying to wild animals. Two Adirondack boys once hid behind a little bush on the banks of the West Canada creek and yelled, screamed and howled at a big blue heron across - the stream, with no other result than to make the bird stare about in curiosity. It was only when both boys leaped to their feet, wildly waved their arms and did some high kicking that the bird flew away. . - Woodchucks, red squirrels, musk rats, mink and various others of the small animals seem to fear the human form, but not tne voice. Foxes flee at a lively gait when a man yells, but deer have been known to almost run over men that were talking in loud voices. Logging teamsters in the woods yell and'swear at their horses in voices audible a mile away, but deer lie in their beds comfortably less than half a mile distant. Bears do not usu ally monkey around in the vicinity of men, except during berry time, when they are sometimes on one side ot the bushes while human berry pickers are on the other. The human voice is soothing to wild, birds of various kinds, such as robins. They will often come very close to a person who talks to them, and turn their heads from side to side, much as caged birds canaries, for ex ample do, but if a person is robbing the bird's nest the voice adds greatly to the terror of the birds. It .is relat ed of a swallow that it had in some manner broken its leg, which was ob served by a woman as the bird flew about. She went out, called it and spoke to it, and after awhile the bird came so near as to be taken into the woman's hands, who then put- the leg m splints, setting it properly and put ting on a soothing ointment. The bird flew away and was soon chirping with the rest of the birds in the air, its leg having been relieved of pain evidently by the bandages. The old story of a lion that allowed a man 10 piCK a morn oairor-ris in flamed foot and dress the wound, then refused to eat the man, may be truth- ul, since dogs, cats, elephants, horses and a good many other animals have remembered kindness as well as evil. Absorbing Power of Soil. Phil. Record. As a preliminary experiment in col oring flowers Dr. Russell has tested the power of the soil to retain the various salts proposed to be used in the case of white pelargoniums. He took two glass tubes, a foot in length, and three quarters of an inch in diameter, and drawn out at one end. These were filled with soil from a garden, the amount being 8i cubic inches. He poured in a solution of sulphate, of cop per (13 grains to the pint, or quarter of an ounce to a gallon). The water which came through was tested ; but 4 1-3 pints passed through before any sulphate appeared, and that only after one month ; 56 grains were held by the soil. Similarly with culphate oi iron : 6 pints 01 tne solution passed through before any iron was present in the water. This took twenty-eight days, so that 47 grains were held by the soil. The next experiment was made with ammonium salts. Ammo nium nitrate was poured on the soil (13 grains to a pint) ; 4 ounces came through before the ammonium- salt was found. ThtTsoil thus retained 2 grains. This took only three-quarters" of an hour. Ammonium chloride. With this salt, 5 ounces passed through before ammonia was detected, there tore, the soil held 3i grains. It ran through In halt an hour. The slgnifi dance of these experiments showed that unless the salt be placed directly in contact with the roots, it might be retained in the soil, and no result would follow. Perversity of Chimnies. Selected. "The hardest problem the builder has to wrestle with," said one of that ilk to a New Orleans Times-Democrat writer, "is the chimney. What the heathen Chinee is to the human race and the left-handed mule to the ani mal kingdom, the chimney is to the various appurtenances that go to make up a human habitation. "There is no safe rule for tne con struction of chimneys. You can build a chimney all right in theory, but when it comes down to practice that is another matter. Build two chim neys side by side in precisely the same manner. Employ the best skilled la bor and construct them on exactly the same principles. .. One may draw all right and the other one smoke like a Choctaw. Yes, sir, the chimney is be yond all understanding, and any build er will tell you so. INDUSTRY AND ZEAL. DISTINCTION COMES TO PEW. To Become Distinguished One Must Employ all One's Energies. Goldsboro Headlight. The curious-minded, watching ants at work, will be struck by the increas ing industry and persistence of the in dividuals. They may work for a com mon end in harmony one with another but each appears to attend strictly to the business he himself has in hand without regard to what his neighbors are doing. Once in a while they may help a companion who has met some uncommon difficulty, but the general impression one gets from their conduct is that they are very industrious, self reliant and persistent. Despair seems to be unknown to them. One may put obstacle after obstacle in their path, but they will surmount or go around thbarrier and attack as cheerfully as ever the new one placed before them. In these respects their conduct very much resembles that of successful men. Industry, cheerful persistence, strict attention to one's own affairs, except when one has an apportunity to help the distressed these are the character istics of men kwho push ahead in the world and ultimately attain positions of distinction. The amiable men who are easily led into other fields than their own, who turnon slight invita tion from . their own immediate busi ness to advise or help their friends who have no very definite objects in life or who lack industry and persistence, nev er attain distinction, for as a matter of fact distinction comes to Very few. In any calling or occupation the ordinary workers are numbered by hundreds or thousands, the exceptional by tens, the distinguished by units. And to become distinguished one must employ all one's energies, and, like the ants, toil on persistently and cheerfully in spite of a succession of disappointments. In the little world of the ant the fu ture must oiten De 01 a character to diaonnraim t.h .stoutest. . hearted A. ti ny mound of earth may shut off from his view the goal toward which he is toiling, but, ignoring what is to come, he addresses himself to surmounting or evading the obstacle immediately in his path. That done, he attacks the next, and so on, seemingly witbout thought of anything beyond the work In hand. The reasoning animal, man, can scarcely be expected to be as obliv ious as the ant of what lies beyond the first obstruction to his progress. He could not, if he would, wholly ignore consideration of the future, but he should at least imitate the ant in zeal ously laboring to overcome present dif ficulties. We are all familiar with the pleasant biblical story which tells of the rewards given to those who have done well the work presented for them to do, and that story is illustrated every day m the ordinary affairs of life. But it may be laid down as a general rule that the man, however able, who does not do minor work well, who com plains that he is out of place and fitted for better things, will not get better em ployment. His abilities are known only to himself and no one else Bas faith in their existence unless he has furnished proof that he possesses them by doing well the inferior w6rk com mitted to his care. To the young therefore, one may safely recommend an means to nromouon auu uinmaio . j t : a success in life zeal, industry and per- sistencen any work, however humble, committed to their care. They may look ambitiously beyond their present aniline- and prepare themselves for higher things by study, but they should never neglect the present for the fu O X M. ture, nor lead others to doubt their ca pacity or worth by any exhibition 01 carelessness, laziness or indifference, however unimportant or distasteful may be the task committed to their care. Before commencing to seed raisins, after the stems are removed, cover the fruit with verv hot water and let it stand a very few moments. Drain the water off and the seeds may then be removed quite easily. It is said a large bowl of water plac ed as near as possible to the head ot a sick person will induce sleep, and healthy people will often sleep better if shallow vessels filled with water are placed about the room. Electric Bitters. Electric Bitters is a medicine suited for any season, but perhaps more gen orollv nooHoH whn the languid 6X- ' W hausted feeling prevails, when the liv er is torpid and sluggish and tne neeo of a tonic Jand alteretive is felt. A prompt use of this medicine has oiten averted long and perhaps fatal bilious fevers. ' No medicine will act more surely in counteracting and, freeing the system from the malarial poison. Headache, Indigestln, Constipation, Dizziness yield toiEIectric Bitters. , 50 f- .nf i noner bottle at E. T. win T k x .... Whitehead & Cos Drug Store THAT CLASS OF READERS THAT YOU Wish your Advertisement TO REACH is the" class who read this paper. Itch on human a .id noraea a no all animals cured in 30 minutes by Wool- ford's Sanitary Lotion. 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