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ADVERTISING IS TO BUSINESS -WHAT STEAM JS TO- Machinery, That Grei Propellis- Power. THAT CLASS OF HEADERS THAT YOTJ Wish your Advertisement TO REACH is the class who read this psper. PROFESSIONAL. 0' w. o. Mcdowell, v.lice North corner New Hotel, Main Street, SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. (T Always at bis office when not afoionnlly engaged elsewhere. D K. A. C. LIVERMON, ' OFirrE-Over J. S. Bowers & Co's store. OiSee 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. - Practices in all the Courts of Hali fax and adjoining counties and in the Supreme and Federal Courts. Claims collected in all parts of the Slate. w. A. DUNN, ATTORXE Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices wherever his 4 services are feauired-. IT W. J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, Enfield.. C. Oifice over Harrison's Druf Store. dVARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Connselorat Law, HALIFAX, N. C. ggT'Money Loanedon Farm Lands. H OWARD ALSTON, Attorney-at-Law, HALIFAX, N. D R. C. A. WHITEHEAD, DENTAL Surgeon, ' Vrt-r TARBORO,N. C SCOTLAND NECK STE.O DYE WORKS Mourxixg Goods a Specialty Get price li?t. Address - Scotland Neck Steam Dyeing Co. 1-21-lv Scotland Neck N. C HAVING INCREASED MY FACIL ITIES I AM NOW PREPARED TO FURNISH DOUBLE QUANTITY OF BRICK. SAlso will take contract to urnish lots irom 50,000 gSF"or more anywhere within Fi0 miles of Scotland Neck Can alwavs furnish what you want. Corre.spond-.j3Cj ence and orders sobered.. 25. A. 1-1 f .j5.v Scotland Neck, N. C. MENTION THIS PAPER. AAC EVANS, i GENERAL CARPENTER. A sjKjcialty of Bracket and Scroll work of all kinds. Work done cheap atifl every piece gun ran teed! 7 1.. C-.-.-T.T Xpnr C JOHN SKIPWITH, BOOT and SHOE-MAKER. Groceries AND CONFECTIONERIES: One Door North of Sternla, Main St. 7 5i Gotland Neck, N. C BRICK ! E. E. HILIIARD, Editor and Proprietor. WOL. XII. Sew Series-Vol. 1. THE EDITOR'S LEISUBE HOURS Points" and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. Dwight L. Moody, the famous evan gelist, has made a contract with the Ladies' Home Journal, by which he will conduct in that magazine a series ot popular Bible studies In the form o n great National Bible Class. It wil be made Into a regular and permanent department of the Journal, and is to be known as "Mr. Moody's Bible Class The evangelist will personally lead his unique "Bible Class" each month ,in the exposition ot some of the vital Bi ble truths, and will naturally appeal to a large cirole of readers. At last the Venezuela question Is to be settled by arbitration. The treaty was concluded in Washington Tuesday night Nov. 10, between Secretary Olney and Sir Julian Pauncifote representing Her Britannic Majesty. According to the terms ot the treaty Oscar II king of Sweden and Norway, is to be the fifth, or final arbitrator. The other four arbitrators are to be chosen, two by the Lord Chief Justice of England and two by the Chief J ustice of the United States. From the Venezuelan standpoint this is a victory, for Vene zuela has been asking for arbitration forty years but Great Britain has never before agreed. ...... The recent laying ot the corner stone for the first building of the great Amer- - e ican. University at Washington was at tended with great interest in matters educational. The site for the universi ty is ninety acres on a hill near the city commanding a fine view of the Po tomac, the Capitol, and the country around. The plans contemplate the erection of twenty-six buildings to be devoted to the different colleges in the institution. The institution Is to cost ten million dollars, and one million has already been raised. The Hall of His tory is now being erected of white mar ble. It Is one hundred , and seventy feet long and from seventy to ninety five feet w?de. The institution is tb be non-sectarian. "What the world is waiting for," is a subject discussed by Leslie's Weekly. Among other.thlngs described that the world is waiting tor are the following : Making of substances suitable ffj: hu man food, similar to flesh meat, direct ly from the elemental substances ; mak ing of pictures by wire ; machines with which we may see a thousand miles "around the corner." These last two possibilities are regarded as probabili ties. It is about to be demonstrated that the artist's sketch wrapped on a wire can be taken at the other end of a telegraphic line just as a word message is taken. . And as to seeing "around the corner" a thousand miles away by wire, it is thought possible. And why should it not be? Men talk at long distances, find can not there be some invention whereby they can see at a distance by electricity? Surely the world's wonders are not all yet seen, and this age will uncover many more of them. The first woman's club in North Car olina has been organized in Durham The News & Observer correspondent from Dnrbam says : "A number of our young ladies who are known throughout the State as society favorites, have fitted up in tasty man ner elegant rooms in one of the best buildings nere. And in these rooms they gather almost every day it? the week and with various pursuits make time pass pleasantly and profitably to themselyes, and at the same time con ler benefits on others in the community. "The club is the home of the charit able work which for three years has been successfully carried on by these young ladies, and which has resulted in the wise distribution of assistance to the poor of Durham and her suburbs. This year they have added the literary feature, and day after day they devote their leisure hours to a thorough study of tne best in literature. Another pro ject of these young ladies is a sewing school, whose sessions are held near one of the cotton mills, and whose pupils are the young girl operatives. So it is sure that while Durham's Woman's club has its social side, It is far from being a social club." s Commonwealth. . '" - -. ' SCOTLAND Written for Thk Commonwealth. x LETTER ABOUT SPAIN. CRUEL BULL FIGHTS. Other Noten of Travel. Xli oince leaving Dome about nve years ago I have visited some of the well known points of interest in Europe and also traveled along the African coast ot tne Mediterranean and into Asia Minor. I went from Genoa to Gibraltar and then went up to the. Alhambra. I traveled enough in Spain to see-for myself that the Moor- ish civilization has left its impress al over the country. The Alhambra is beyond description. The Spaniards say tnat Christopher Columbus dis covered America and Washington Ir- ing discovered the Alhambra. I was shown the room in which Washington Irving stopped. I saw the progress of restoration of the Alhambra which is ioing on at government expenses That progress is at agnail's pace. They will do about as much in one year as would be accomplished ln-this country i n one week. Turning from the beauty and grand eur of the Alhambra, with its lace-work and coloring of red, blue and gold, and looking towards the Sierra Nevadas with orange groves at their feet, went down to the headquarters of the Gypsies. Spain is the stronghold of the nomads. A I came up I saw the King of the Gypsies. He is a swarthy, nedium-sized man, and was gorgeous- y dressed. He had in his right hand i staff, and with this he struck an at titude and looked as though he was a man of some consequence, but all that he wants is a fee. He is always on the ookout for strangers and he has his picture to sell. If there are ten in a party and one of them buys one of his pictures he will want them all to buy one'and then he will give a polite bow and move ton. As I went towards the heart of the Gypsy quarters it seemed is if the earth must have opened and vomited up beggars, large and small, men, women and children. They" seized my horses and even jumped into nay carriage. They ran after me with astonishing speed and endurance, even childran. It did astonish me to see liow they could keep ud with my horses, going very fast and the driver still whipping them.. The girls and boys were barefooted and half dressed. The little children from hve to ten years old had nothing on them. .1 was told that there were some beautiful jirls among the Gypsies and they were -jood dancers, but what I really saw was an ordinary Spanish dance by ug ly, lat women. There were none of the beautiful costumes, or beautiful women which had been promised be fore going there. The dancers are really fat, lazy girls. I paid a fee to 40 in and see the dance, and then they wanted more money. The dancing vas nothing extra. I have seen better at one of our old time country dances. I saw the narrow streets of Seville and talked along the Mam street which is so narrow that it is called the "snake." The Alcazar attracted my attention very much, with its story added above the old structure for the accommoda tion of the King and Queen when they visited the town. I saw Cordova and went into the Mosque which has lour hundred and sixty-seven of the beauti lully crowned Moorish columns, of vvhich there are not two alike. At Madrid I saw several bull-fights. I shall neer forget that sight. I had often wondered how bull-fighting could be a national amusement. The btill-ring is only 30 by 30 feet and there are seats all around it, something like a show and will seat more than 20,000 people. There are where you can see finely dressed ladies in their silks and satins. Nearly all the fashionable la dies were smoking cigarettes and were in full dress. Bull-fights have cruel features, but the real cruelty is not to the bulls, but to the horses, as far as I could see. I sawtour bull-fights and they all terminated in the same way. The horses upon which the bull-fighters roie were ripped open by the bulls every time. Around tne ring went one horse, stepping upon his own en trals and on his back was the rider. The bull gored the horse the eecond time and he fell but was not killed, and as he lay on the ground the bull attacked him the third time. The horses are led in the ring blind-folded. The horns ot the bulls are sharpened like needles. After the bull-fighting and the hand somely dreesed crowd was riding away, I noticed something odd which I have never seen described in print. Here and there, scattered along the streets of that great city, were flocks of goats, from 50 to 80 goats in a flock. Each flock was In charge of one or more per nmman ivhn wflrfl callincr'l 'Milk for sale !" People came from . "QggLSlOR" IS OUR MOTTO. NECK, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER Vf , the houses with pails, bowl and other utensils. ' . $ "How much milk you want?" asked the goat driver. receiving an answer, a goat was milked then and there in the presence of the purchafer of the milk. There would be no use for milk inspector in this city, lou can see how odd the transaction appeared for a city by imagininig herds of goats or cov driven through the principal streets o: XT T 1 I a mew iorK ana miiKea wniie you wait. Some of the foreign countries are more than 100 years, behind the times, C. T, Cubrie. Penniless on the Train. New York Sun. A prosperous New Yorker who pass ed the summer in 'Asheville, has brought back a good story of his own carelessness and Southern confidence in human nature. He is an absent-mind ed person, and often'takes thought o: important matters too late. He-reach ed the Asheyille station on his ' return to find that he had less than $10 in his purse. There was not a moment to lose. He was obliged to go ; . his wife and daughter were to join him at Charlotte, and to postpone the trip was out of the que&tion. He invested all the money he had in a ticket which insured his passage only as far as Salisbury. "I was flat broke," he says, in telling the story, "and I felt like a tramp stealing a. ride, but my gloom was illu minated by the hope that my wife and daughter had been economical enough to save from their allowances enough money to pay for our passage to Wash ington at least. Vain hope ! They got on the train penniless and "hungry, without even a ticket. "Kaiiroads don t do business on a credit system, and on that short ride etween Charlotte and Salisbury my hair nearly turned gray. Any prospect is more fascinating than that of being put off penniless, in a North Carolina mountain town at nearly midnight, with a helpless wife and daughter to 00k after. I was desperate. My brain whirled in a furious endeavor to evolve grfme .solution. The train stopped at Salisbury'. I -rari up to the ticket win dow, where a cool-looking fellow was presiding. I went at him wif desper- atiou. " 'My dear fellow,' t said, 'I am in a terrible fix busted. My wife and daughter are on that train, and we're obliged to go on to New York to-night. Can't you take my check for three tick ets?" He eyed me cool, as ice, and sold and stamped three tickets to some way station. Then he turned to give some ellow information' about the midnight (train. It seemed an eternity before he turned again to me. Then he said la conically : 'Guess so,' and proceeded to stamp up the tickets I just dropped. My hand trembled so I could hardly sign the check. I'm going to do something nice for that young iellov.'. North Carolina on Wheels. Charlotte Observer. Capt. W. H.w Bamseur returned yes terday from Wilmington, Del., where he placed a contract with the car-build ing firm of Jackson & Sharpe for a car o be used for the purpose of advertis ng the resources, products, manufact ures and enterprises of North Carolina. t will be patterned after the fashion of the Florida car, and like which, it will travel over the United States. The contract price of the car is $10,000 and it is to be finished in North Carolina woods, which are as pretty as any pro duced in the world. This is the enter prise of , the North Carolina Advertis ing Company, of which Capt. Ramseur is manager. The materials for stock ing the car are being collected and will be ready to be placed by the time the car is ready. There will be a hsh and bird display of all kinds from the east ; birds, bears, deer and various ttinds of game from all paris of the State ; woods of all varieties ; the different products of the soil ; gold, silver, iron and the various minerals, and, 111 fact, it will be an exposition on wheels. It will visit the people of all the cities ana Towns in the North, .East and west. Condensed Testimony. Chas. B. Hood, Broker and Manufac turer's Aeent. Columbus, Ohio, Certifi es that Dr. King's New Discovery has no equal as a Cough remedy. J. D. Brown. Prop. St. James xioiei. ri. Wflvne. Ind.. testifies that he was cured of a Cough of two years' standing caus ed by La Grippe, by Dr. King's JNew Discovery. U. r. jnernn, xaiuwiu ville. Mass., says that he has used and recommended it and never knew it to fail and would rather have it than any doctor, because it always cures. Mrs. Hemming, 222 E. zotn 01., mcagu, always keeps it at hand and has no fear of Croup, because it instantly re- Vroa Trial a Bottles at E. T Whitehead & Co.'s Drug Store. TWO GRAVES. A rich man died to rest They laid him down Upon a fair slope, slanting toward the West, K And cast about the silence of his tomb A marble mausoleum's sacred gloom. The hung within its tower, tall and white, 4 li r . . . a cniniB 01 sweei-voicea oens: and every night, Ju8tbsthe red sun sank below the swell Of that green hill, they tolled his Pol emn knell. Another died. They buried liim in haste Within a barren field,a weedy waste. Rank nettles locked their arms and thorns were sown Above his bed, unmarked by cross or stone. One lived on many tongues. The oth er fell From human memory ; and both slept well. Catharine Young Glen llud Washes. Norfolk Landmark. The old proverb, that there is noth ing that has not some use in the world if we only knew what it was, has been verified again. This time the discoverer was the summer girl who has just re turned from her outing at the seashore or in the mountains. TJbe bugaboo of the summer gin's season is the tan which she brings back to the city with her. It interferes witnher wearing of evening gowns. And she will go to at most any extreme to accomplish that result in a hurry. The latest wrinkle of the city girl is mud. Plain, dirty, sticky mud. The idea is by no means new, but it is the first time that society as a whole has accepted it is a skin beautifier. Swamp mud or the mud from the bed of a stream is the best. The skin should be thoroughly cleansed and dried until the skin feels warm, and the perspira tion has started. -Then apply the mud thickly, taking care to keep it from the eyes, it is especially necessary that care be taken to cover all portions' of the skin alike, as the smallest patch of uncovered skin is likely to stand out with disagreeable plainness the morning. " - - - - next The xfeeling of the mud on the face i not as unpleasant as one might at first suppose. It feels much as a coat- ng of vaseline or cold cream would, and its beneficial results are much greater. The ,hands are treated in the same way, except that it is advisable to wear an old loose pair of gloves to pre vent the mud from being rubbed off during the night. The idea of the mud wash is as old as history. The old Romans knew of it, and it is very probable that Cleopa tra 'used the prescription to enhance her charms. In the West mud is a panacea for poisonous bites and stings. And the rural maidens use it to whiten their skin. . The idea mav be distasteful to a great many people, but it is the fad just at present, and has as many devo tees as social fancies always do. WHAT'S DONE IS DONE. Seein' the thing is over Seem' the victory's won ; Don't growl at the boys in clover What's done Is done. The same sun's shining' above us The same world s under the sun ; The same sweet friends that'll love us What's done is done ! An' the world keeps on a turn in' The river's still on the run ; The lamps o' the Lord air burnin' What's done is done f Bnrned in a Earn. Greenville Reflector. Mr. Wyatt Meeks, of Carolina town ship, had his barn and about 75 bar rels of corn and 5 bales of cotton and all his farming utensils, destroyed by fire last week. And now the saddest part is he had two small children con sumed in the flames, aged three and five years. The little fellows it Is sup posed went in the barn to play and set fire to some shucks near the door and then ran up on the corn in the back of the barn where they were found after the barn burned down. Did Yon Ever Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for your troubles ? If not, get a bottle now and get relief. This medicine lias been bund to be peculiarly adapted to the relief and cure of all Female Com plaints, exerting a wonderful direct in fluence in giving strength and tone to the organs. If you have Loss of Ap petite, Constipation, Headache, Faint ing Spells," Electric Bitters is the med icine vou need. Health and Strength tare guaranteed by its use. Fifty cents and $1.00 at T. Whitehead & Co.'s Drug .Store. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00. T896. NO. 49. The Davis ' . . . " ' ' ROCKY nOUNT, ft), C. I desire to say to the Tobacco Growere of Halifax and'adjoinmgWinties, that I am better prepared than ever, to get yoa the very HIGHEST MARKET PRICES for your tobbacco. We have plenty ol Buyers, and with more than SEVENTEEN YEARS EXPERIENCE in the Warehouse business, I do not hesitate to tell you that Rocky Mount is the maricet and the Dayis Warehouse the place, to sell your tobacco. O-GIVE ME A TRTAL AND I WILL PLEASE YOU: CTPROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL SHIPMENTS. 9 10 Your Friend, JEWELRY -AN SILVERWARE!!! WATCHES AND CLOCKS PUT IN PERFECT REPAIR. We have engaged the services of Mr. J. P Perry, from the Cb"' go Watch Ma- " kers' Ine'.tute, where he took a thorough 1 course, and" is prepared to do ALL KINDS OF REPAIRING And Engraving. His office is at our show window in front. All work is guaranteed. GIVE HIM A CALL E. T. WHITEHEAD & 00.; 4 25tf Scotland -Neck, N. C. -TO- My m in neuuir! , " I am prepared at my new quarters to serve my old Friends and customers from North Carolina with the best Tonsorial : Service. You get a QUICK AND EASY SHAVE, -AND YOUR HAIR CUT AT ANY TIME Remembering your liberal patron age in the past I hope to receive it still. No. 62 Roanoke Avenue near cor. of Avenue and MairrStreet, Norfolk,,Va. DOLISON WHITEHEAD. HOW THE DIPPER SAVED THE FARM. Father was sick and the mortgage on the farm was coming due, I saw in the Christian Advocate where Miss A. M. i Fritz of Station A., St. Louis, Mo., would send a sample combination dip per for 18 two cent stamps, and I order ed one. I saw the dipper could be used as a fruit jar filler ; a plain dipper ; x fine strainer ; a funnel ; a strainer funnel ; a sick room warming pan and rtmf maaanMi Thaaa Aiorlif. liffArant. uses meke the dinner such a necessary I article that I went to work with it and j it sells at very near every bouse. And in four months I paid off the mortgage I think 1 can clear as much as 1200 a month. If you need work you can do well by giving this a trial. Misp A. M. Fritz, Station A, St. Louis, Mo., will send you a sample for IS 2 cent stamps. Write at once. Johx G. N. 10 22 13t gUDSON'S ENGLISH KITCHEN, 187 Main St., NORFOLK, VA. Is the Leading Dining Room in the City for Ladies and Gentlemen. Strict y a Temperance Place. All meals zoc. NfPETnrdsoirs surpassing uouee a feclaltv. 1 16 ly Notice. In pursuance of an order of Court made in the special proceedings enti tled Amos Cherry vs Levy Cherry and others, now pending in the Superior Court of Halifax county, 1 will on the 21st dav of November, 1896, sell to the highest bidder in the town of Scotland JNeok, that store house and lot in which Albert Mill is now doing business, be ing lot No. 12 on Block 40 according to the plot of said town. Said - sale is made for the purpose of partition among the devisees of the will of the ate Wiley Cherry. This 18th .day of Oct., 1896. Claude Kitchuc, .0 22 4t. N Commissioner. IF TCJ ATE OTlo TOO Wttt ADVERTISE ' rovn Business. Sejtd Your Adverttbement ik Now, Warehouse, 3 Bueltner Davis. English Spavin Liniment remove! all Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and and Clemishes from horses. Blood Spavin Surbs, Splints. Sweeney, Ring worm tiiiee, Sprains, and Swollen Through, Conghs, Etc. Save 60 by use of one bottle. Warranted the most wondrful Blemism Cure ever known. Sold bo E. T. Wnitehead 4 Co., Druggists, Scotland Neck. N. C. 10 1 Iv. J FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS Ax Old and Well-Tried Remedy Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for over fifty years by mil lions of mothers for their children while teething, with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the guma, allays all pain cures wind colic, and la the best remedy for Diarrhoea. Ia pleasant tq the taste. Sold by Drug gists in every part of the World. Twenty five cents a bottle. Its value is incalculable. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, and take no other kind. (R) 9 26 ly ing to represent Combined Contract comprising two of the largest invest ment and life insurance companie44n A merica. Add rcss Thou. A. P. Champ !in, Sup't. Firs F' fRoom8l2 to 15) McGill tttifT-;--!., Wliington, D. C. IEF IN SIX HOURS. Diet reusing Kidnev and Bladder dis 'iises relieved iiisix hours by the "New heat South Am euicak Kidney Jui;k." This new. remedy ia a great urprise on account of its exceeding promptness in relieving pain in the' bladder, kidneys, b;ick and every part if the urinary inssaos in male or fe male. It relieves retention of water nd pain in passing it almost immedi-, itely. If you want quick relief and cure this is vour remedy. Sold by E. T. Whitehead and Co., Drnviisi.- KfoMiind Neck. N. C. Designs tent to s'ny n.UJrvs" FRRF. Tn writing lor then i:msv'1 v. t;.e ot de- Imu'ed and .wnie limit f p'ice. All work warnui f?d strk-lly first-rSas :md entirely satisfactory. 3 I ly Work Delivered at Any Depot. MEXTIOV THIS T'ATEK. S. K. ALLEY. PHOTOGRA PKEi Tarboro, N. C. HEW STUDIO OVER JOHN BATTLE'S SHOE STORE. SlliE ENTRANCE. WILL BB GLAD TO HAI3 ALL MY FRIENDS AMD PAT RONS CALL AND SEE ME. Reasonable Prices - . 'Sf - AND All Work Guaranteed First-claw 6 27tf . 1 .
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