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! ADVERTISING IS TO BUSINESS -WHAT STEAM IS T( Machinery, That Grem Pkopellin ; PowIk. THAT CLASS OF READERS THAT YOU Wish your Adrertisemeiit TO REACH is the class who read this paper. PEOPESSIONAL. r. w. o. Mcdowell, D (Office North corner New Hotel, Main Street, Scotland Neck, N. C. office when not professionally engaged elsewhere. 0 R. A. O. LIVERMON, OmcE-Over J. S. Bowers & Co's store Otfiee hours from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to I o'clock, p. m. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. 0 AVID BELL, Attorney at Law, ENFIELD, N. C. all the Courts of Hali- Practices in r,- onr? -ifliominsr counties and in the Sum-erne and Federal Courts. Clain collected in all uarts of the State. ill A.DUNN, A TTORXE Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices . wherever his services an 4-eQuired. iR. W. J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, ENFIELD, N. C. Office over Harrison's Druf Store. E DWARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and XVmnselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. 3 Money Loaned on Farm Lands. H OWARD ALSTON, ' Attorney-at-Law, HALIFAX, N. C T C A. WHlTUHtAl'. DENTAL Surgeon, TarboroN. C- SCOTLAND NECK STEAM DYE WORKS MorRxisG Goods a Specialty Get price list. Address Scotland Neck Steam Dyeixo Co. l-2i-lv Scotland Neck N. C HAVING INCREASED MY FACIL ITIES I AM NOW PREPARED TO FURNISH DOUBLE QUANTITY OF BKlCK. igp-"Also will take contract to jjffurnish lots from 50,000 g."or more anywhere within is?"50 miles of Scotland Neck Can always furnish what vou want. Correspond-. ence and orders Solicited.. 1-10-05-ly Scotland Neck, N. C. MENTION THIS PAPEK. S AAC EVANS, GENERAL CARPENTER. A. specialtv of Bracket and Scroll work o'f all kinds. Work done cheap and every piece guaranteed. It t Scotland JOHN SKIPWITH. BOOT jand SHOE-MAKER. Groceries AND CONFECTIONERIES. One Door North of Stern'; Alain St. 7 5 1- uxuuro Neck, N. C BRICK ! l Y T i - J ' - E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XII. Sew Scries Vol. U THE EDITOR'S LEISTJBE EOUBS. Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. It ia fast coming to the point that a man will secure employment and re ceive recognition on what he really can do and not on what he proposes to do. This idea nas taken defimite shape in Georgia. A bill has been prepared to be offered to the Legislature to prevent the issuance of architects' certificates to persons "who are not sufficiently pre pared for doing architectural work." The bill provides- that a commission shall be appointed consisting of five men of standing and ability who shall pass upon the applications of those who desire to enter the protession. It would seem that this might be an effectual means of preventing the pub lic from being imposed upon by quack architects. The ejresxf this and many other na tions are hxed on President elect William McKinieT, and will remain fixed upon him forborne time to come Both sides ol the money question held up many promises to tiie people dur- ng the campaign, and "It must follow a 3 nis;ht the day" that one side or the other should make good tne promises pro re f;ilse to its pledges. It has evented in the result of the election that the Republican party must make good its promises or stand condemned before the American people for its own false pledges. Major McKinley, as the chief magistrate of the nation and the exponent of Republican principles, must needs bear all the responsibility of lifting burdens from a restless and chafing people. Will he come up to the expectations of his party? - At the recent meeting of the Baptist State Convention,-a resolution was of fered and passed against State aid to higher education. There seemed to be very little discussion of the subject. Prof. Gore of the State University, who is a most excellent man and a staunch and loyal Baptist, opposed the resolu tion, not on its merits, but on the ground that as a religious body the convention ought not to pass such res olutions. He said if they wished , to pass the resolutions, let them adjourn as a religious or denominational body, and assemble in meeting of citizens of the State and pass them if they saw proper. Many good Baptists. Metho dists, Presbyterians andothers who op pose State aid as a principle will agree with Prof. jGore's position that the opposition ought to come from 9assem bled bodies of citizens rather than from religious bodies. Li Hung Chang's recent visit to this country brought the great Chinese statesman prominently before the minds of the American people gener ally. Many who did not see him thought of him as a small dwarf-like Chinaman with no special physical at traction. It is related that at a dinner iiven by the French Ambassador at Peking, Li showed something of his strength as well as ignorance along certain lines. When dinner was an nounced the French Ambassador step ped up to LI and said, "Will your ex cellency take my wife out to dinner'" Li being six feet three inches and the Ambassador's wife being a tiny loman the Chinese statesman literally obeved the Ambassadors request, and tucking the little woman under one arm carried her to dinner to her dis tress and the amazement of the com pany. One of the most novel bets ever knownperhaps, was consummated in Wisconsin during the late campaign. Two prominent well-to-do Dusmess men who took opposite eides on the money question were each so sure of the success of his choice for President that tnev made the following contract, signed and recorded by a notary pub lic : The Bryan man contracted that if McKinley should be elected he would sell out his business interests and leave the United States never to return ; and the McKinley man con tracted to do the same if Bryan should be elected. They signed the contract in good faith and agreed to close out by next January. Their friends pro tested against their course, telling them what a loss it would be to have to leave the countr in the full year3 of pros perity, but they signed the contract all thejsame. There has been no bulletin of the losing man's course since the Jelection Co SCOTLAND WE ARE THANKFUL. SOME THINGS WE BEHEHBEB. Some Bamhling Thoughts. by "nemo. (Copyrighted.) (These "Thoughts," by a layman, are read in five hundred thousand homes, scattered in every State of the Union. In this county they will be found in the columns oi this paper only, as we have made arrangements with the au thor for their exclusive publication.) A LAYMAN'S THANKSGIVING. Oh, great Architect of the infinite, to whom a thousand years are as a day, we ephemeral, vanishing creatures bow before Thee in quiet, humble thanks. , For immeasurable space, so extensive that the most cunning devices of men turn us back defeated from all attempts to set its bounds : for the weight of our world and of all the other wondrous, unsupported, circling bodies, so pon derous that the human mind reels in computation, we thank Thee, Thou who art power. For the accurate movement of each star, revolving in its orbit with precis ion indescribable ; for the visible voice of the heavens, our perennial time piece ; for the inclination of the axis of our world, so cunningly devised to give comfort and advantage in the chang ing seasons and the broadened area of habitation, we thank Thee, Thou who art order. Oh, thou Mechanic of the infinitesi mal, we who are not the least of all Thy creatures enter Thy presence with praise. For the perfect detail in the snort- lived gnat, dancing In the light of the dying day ; for the structural adapta tion of those creatures that escape our vision save as the eyes are aided by mi croscope : for the pervasiveness of life, things even that die being the sustain ed of things that live ; lor the evasive ness of life, so that after all research we give up foiled in every attempt to find a natural origin tor life in the ti niest atom ; for all these things we thank Thee, Thou who art life. For our own bodies, sacred because fhey are Thy handiwork, so brief in endurance and yet so potential because of the blessing or sorrow we pass to to those who come after us ; for our brains and their power to set us onthe apex of all living things ; Jor thought and its products in solid form that are seen in every direction ; for the chal- enge to effort that comes from the elusive secrets of nature ; for the power to conquer and transform this inert world beneath our feet, we thank Thee, Thou who art supreme Intelligence. Oh, thou Mind of the universe, we who detect in ourselves free-will and an individual consciousness that separates us from the beasts and gives us a sense of kinship with Thee, we approach Thee with assurance. For the protest of the human mind against the claim of any human knowl- edgeto be final and complete ; for all honesrdoubtthat drives us steadily for ward to clearer comprehension ; for the great scientists who have helped to shake the dead husKs from creeds and opened the eyes of their makers and preachers to a fuller religion, wherein the unity and comprehensiveness of Thy plan for onward movement, both in nature and in revelation, are more fully recognized, we thank Thee, Thou who are not far from any one of us. For all passing away of forms and . ceremonies: ior tne universal execra tion of hollow Pharisaism, for the grow- ng understanding that sanctity is nev er more to be measured by mere atten dance at worship for the spiritual and material progress of our race ; for Thy stately steopings in human history, making life seem no longer a thing of chance but the possible opening notes of a grand eternal symphony, we thank Thee, Thou who dwellest not in temples made with hands. For all sorrows that break down our self-satisfaction ; for the furnace of af fliction that destroys the dross and makes of the residue a golden chalice for bearing solace to our fellows ; for all agony that touches us with the feeling of others' infirmities ; we thantc Thee, though .Thou afflict us sore, bending over us as a tryer and lehner of pre cious things. For all ;great disasters that electrify us with the feeling of brotherhood to men ; for famines and pestilences that turn us for the time from the rakings of selfishness to the works of sympathy ; for sudden death and its warnings that our own time is limited, we thank Thee Thou who notest the fall of the spar row. For all children thought ot with love before birth, nourished with tender joy and welcomed to the world with holy purpose ; for all mothers who compre hend the lar-reacbing influence of mar- riaon : for All Miners wun .wu ww MMONW" 'EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, bodies consecrate ; for the growing feel ing that the family life is a sacred and fateful function ; we thank Thee, Thou who art Love. For f all maiden women who with hearts of flesh sanctified to humanity seek a wider family than home lean give, and go forth to cherish the sick, the bereft, the orphan ; for all the helpful ministrations of those lull of Divine self-denial who bury their sor row to turn a sunshine face to the world, we thank Thee, Thou satisfierof hearts that yearn to be filled. For the great Teacher, the Emanci pator of mind, the Founder, the Cen ter, the Secret of all that is lovely and of good report in our latter civiliza tion ; tor the Moral Monarch, the Prince of Peace, before whose mild might the paganisms of Rome and- of Greece shivered into fragments : for Him whose power is not shortened to tame the heart of fire, till the lion within us lieth down with the Lamb, we thank Thee, who hast made Thy self comprehensible to us in human form. We bow in wondering awe before Thee, apparent in these Thy works both great and small, save to the fool, blinded, deaf, and unresponsive. Thou spiritual embodiment of power, order, life, intelligence, love, hear the breath ings of our hearts as we sink into si-, lence before Thee. Our voices die with in us. bustam us till we step upward from this dim mysterious sojourning place into Light. Life at Washington. The inauguration of a president, the selection of his Cabinet, and the seat ing of a new Congress national events of the coming year suggest the ques tion, Wrhat are the powers and duties of these high officials? During 1897 it will be answered through the Youth's Companion, in a remarkable series of articles by Secretary Herbert, Postmaster-General Wilson, Attorney-General Harmon, Senator Lodge and Speaker Reed. The illustrated announcement for 1897 (mailed free on application to the Youth's Companion, Boston) shows that the above is only one of many brilliant "features" by which the Com panlon will signalize its seventy-first year. Three novelists who at present fill the public eye Ian JVIaclaren, Rud- yard Kipling and Stephen Crane will contribute some of their strongest work. Practical affairs and popular interests will be treated by Andrew Carnegie, Aon. Theodore Roosevelt, Dr. Lyman Abbott, Madame Lillian Nordica, Hon,. Carl Schurz, Charles Dudley Warner Mrs. Burton Harrison, and a hundred other famous men and women. Four fascinating serials, more than two hundred short stories, and ten times as many sketches and anecdotes will be printed during 1897 ; and all the departments will he maintained at the high standard which has made the Companion's name a synonym for im partial accuracy. The cost of the Companion is but f 1.75 a year, and we know of no invest ment that will give so great returns for so small amount of money. New sub scribers will receive the paper free from the time the subscription is re ceived until January 1, 1897, and for a full year to January, 1898. New sub scribers also receive the Companion four-page Calendar, lithographed in twelve colors, which is the most ex pensive color production its publishers have ever offered. Address, The Youth's Companion, 205 Columbus Ave., Boston, Mas?: Sorry to Disappoint. After the prospective tenant had told all thatshe expected to get in a $30 flat the agent sadly shook his head. "Even if we were permitted to sub let the earth,''' he said, "we wouldn't dare let one tenant have it all." Chi cago Post. MARRY THIS GIRL, SOMEBODY. I have been reading in your paper about several men and women that been very successful selling self-heating flat irons, and I concluded I would what a girl could do. I have worked 12 days and have old 151 'irons and have 218 dollars left after paying all expenses. Everybody is delighted with the iron and I sell one almost every pface I show it, as people think they can't afford to be without one as they save so much fuel and time and don't burn the clothes. I know I can clear five thousand dollars in a - year. How is that for a girl? A Graduate. Splendid, my girl, splendid, you are a true American girl. Anyone can get complete information about the self heating iron by addressing J. F. Casey & Co., St. Louis, Mo. It seems to be a winner, as everybody selling it writes in its ppflse. v RAISED THE TAXES. SQUABBD UP WITH JUSTICE. A Farmer Who Knew How to Invite v a Bis Seal and Profit by it. N. F, Dispatch. -Lhe lexas Judge was giving the Washington Star reporter a few wild steers, so to speak, on the manners and customs of the people of -his greatest and second-to-none State in the glo rious galaxy of the Union, or words to that effect. And the reporter was ob serving at the same time how unlike the Judge was in this respect to any and all Texans he had met. "Speaking of the tenderfeet," said the judge, with proper judicial dignity, "Hiram Hooten, who came to my country when I was a young man, was the rarest specimen I ever met up with Hiram had a twang to his speech, a good deal like an Indian Yankee, when he first came to the country, but the Texas climate softened that of its an gularities, so that at the last we did not care where he came from, and Hiram for some reason never told us. The things that Hiram did in the way of houesty were too numerous to men tion, and his simplicity of character was really painful, especially when one of our citizens sold him a farm for $500 that nobody in the country would have at any price. Hiram, however, ner complained, and he managed somehow to make a living on his farm, which some ol our people could not do on better ones.. He had also managed somehow to have a little money in the bank, and, notwithstanding his guile lessness, it was not cousidered safe to ward the last to monkey with Hiram in a horse trade. Still, every now and and then he would do a fool thing, and the next round some of our best men would be after Hiram for a chance to eaten mm napping in some kind ol a trade and Hiram would be found wide awake. "One day Hiram was in the Sheriff s office paying his taxes and he insisted that it wasn't justice tolhe taxpayers of the county that he should pay taxes oh his farm, which was assessed at only $250. He said it ought to lie $2,500 at least, and the sheriff began to think Hiram had another one of his fits, and the next thing he knew he would have to have a trustee appointed to look out for him. However, Hiram prevailed upon him to use his good influence in having the proper figure put on the farm, and Hiram was greatly comfort ed when he was informed that next year his taxes would be on tfie increas ed valuation. Then Hiram went off about his business, smiling, and the sheriff met him next day, and in small horse and cattle trade Hiram came out a pair ot mules ahead, and the sheriff didn't know what hurt him But he would get it on Hiram before he had recovered from bis fit in the cause of justice. "For five or six months Hiram went along about as usual, and the neigh bors didn't notice anything peculiar until he began to whitewash his barns and fences, and he most have wasted as much as $4 improving the looks ol things. Then one day a tidy sort of a man came to the Sherifi's office with Hiram, and they looked over the books, and the stranger seemed to be satisfied with what he saw and hadn't a word to say to anybody. A week laier he came around again, and this time Hiram came to me to draw up the deeds and transfer the property to the stranger, the price being $3,000 for the farm as it stood, in spot cash. It was only 500 above the assessed valu ation, and the stranger thought he was getting a snap. I never said a word, for Hiram had given me a $50 feet and it wasn't my place to talk. A day after the new man took posession, Hi ram left the county, and thg stranger told ftie sheriff in confidence that he had Known Hiram back in Indiana, and he was always considered just a little slack-twisted, and the sheriff grinned and called tbeT attention of the stranger to the fact that Hiram Hooten had increased the taxable valuation of that farm from $250 to $2,500 for noth ing on earth but simple justice." A CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY. In the' past three months I have cleared,$660.75 selling Dish washers. I did most of the work, my brother help ed some. 1 expect to do better next month, as every Dishwasher sold adver tises itself, and sells several more ; I don't have to leave the house. People hear about the Dish Washers and send lor them they are so cheap. Any lady or gentleman can mwke money in this business, as every family wants a Dish Washer. Any of our readers who have energy enough to apply for an agency can easily make irom $s tofiu per oay. You can get full particulars by address ing the Mound City Dishwasher Co., St. Louis, Mo. Try it and publish your success for the benefit of others. C. A. D. . EALTH SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $i.oo. 1896. NO. 50. The Davis ROCKY ttOUNT. N. C. I desire to say to the Tobacco Growers of Halifax and'adjoining countle. that I am better prepared than ever, to get yt a the very HIGHEST MARKET PRICES for your tobbacco. We have plenty ot Buyers, and with more than SEVENTEEN" YEARS EXPERIENCE in the Warehouse business, Io not hesitate to tell you that Rocky Mount is the market and the Dayis Warehouse the place, to sell your tobacco. 'GIVE ME A TRIAL ANJU -PROMPT ATTENTION 9 10 JEWELRY SILVERWARE!!! WATCHES AND CLOCKS PUT IN PERFECT REPAIR. We have engaged the services of Mr. J. P Perry, from the CF ago Watch Ma kers' Inst, ui te, where he took a thorough course, and is prepared to do ALL KINDS CF REPAIRING And Engraving. 1 His office is at our show window in front. All work is guaranteed. GIVE HIM A CALL E. T. WHITEHEAD & CO., 4 25 tf Scotland Neck, N. C. I am prepared at my new quarten to serve my old Friends and customer from North Carolina with the best Tonsorial : Service. You get a QUICK AND EASY SHAVE, -AND YOUR HAIR CUT AT ANYTIME fXF Remembering your liberal patron age in the past I hope to receive it still. No. 62 Roanoke Avenue near cor. ot Avenue and Main Street, 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 J Christian Advocate where Miss A. M. 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 , a hne strainer ; a iunnei ; a strainer funnel ; a sick room warming pan and a pint measure. These eight different uses make the dipper such a necessary article that I went to work with it and it sells at very near every house. And in four months I paid off the mortgage I think 1 can clear as much as $200 a month. If you need work you can do well by giving this a trial. Miss A. M. Fritz, Station A, St. Louis, Mo., will send -you a sample for 18 2 cent stamps. Write at once. John G. N. 10 22 13t flUDSOn ENGLISH KITCHEN, 187 Main St., NORFOLK, VA. Is the Leading Dining Room in the CItv for Ladies and Gentlemen. Strict lv a Temperance Place. All meals zdc. KHvdson'a Surpassing Coffee a Specialty. 1 16 ly Notice. In pursuance of an order of Court made in the special proceedings enti tled Amos Cherry ys Levy Cherry and others, now pending in the Superior Court of Halifax county, I will on the 21sFday of November, 189b, sell to the highest bidder in the town of Scotland Neck, that store house and lot in which Albert Hill is now doing business, be ing lot No. 12 on Block 4b 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. V This 19th day of Oct., 189U. Claude Kitchin, 10 22 4t. Commissioi A er. IF YOU ACE L'USTLEQ you wax. ADVERTISE TOUB Business. Send Your Advertisement in Now. Warehouse, I WILL PLEASE YOU. GIVEN TO ALL-SHIPMENTS. Your Friend, Buclmer Davis. English Spavin Liniment remove all Hard, Soft or Calloused LumpTmd and Clemishes from horses. Blood Spavin Surbs, Splints, Sweeney, Ring worm tines, Sprains, and Swollen Through, Coughs, Etc. Save 50 by use of one bottle. Warranted the most wondrful Blemism Cure ever known. Sold bo E. T. Whitehead & Co., Druggists, Scotland Neck, N. C. 10 1 lv. FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS An Old and Wkll-Tried Remedy Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup bai been used for over fifty years bv mil- lions of mothers for their children while teething, with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain cures wind colic, and is the beet remedy for Diarrhoea, Is pleasant to the taste. Sold by Drug gist 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 taka no other Kind. rit j 20 lir " " w - , WANTED A gentleman of stand ing to represent Combined Contract comprising two of the largest invest- mcnt and 11 ie insurance companies in America. Address Thus. A. P. Chamn- lin.up'f. Fum ': ..r (Rooms 12 to 15) mcuiii jJuruui,., v si.-hington, D. C. 1EF IN SIX HOURS. Die! rising Kidney and Bladder dis ohpcs relieved tn nix hours by the "New Gkkat HotTn American Kidney Ci i;k." This mw remedy is a great surprise on acre Hint of itn exceeding promptness in relieving pain in the bhidder, kidneys, b;ick and every part of the urinary passages in male or fe male. It relieves retention of water and pain in passing it almost immedi ately. If you want quick relief and cure this is your remedy. Sold by E. T. Whitehead and Co., DrnirtMsU. Scotland Neck. N. O. Designs seni 10 any address FREF. In writing ior them please give age ol de ceased and some limit as to price. Ali work'warranted strictly first-clas and entirely satisfactory. 3 1 ly Work Delivered at Any Depot. MENTION THIS PAPER. S. B. ALLEY, PHOTO GR A PHEl Tarboro, N. C. HW STODIO OVER JOHN BATTLE'S SHOE STORE. SlUE ENTRANCE. WILL BE GLAD TO HAVE ALL MY FRIENDS AMD PAT. R0SF6 CALL AND SEE MB. 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