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ADVERTISING Is TO BUSINESS -WHAT STEAM IS TO- Machinery, X - H Commonweal rTrvrnr That Oi::: I'norF.u.is Tower. THAT CLASS OF READERS THAT YOU Wish your Advertisement TO REACH is the class who read this prmer. E. E. HIL.L.IARD, Editor and Proprietor. "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00. VOL. XII. New Series Vol. 1. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1896. NO. 52. IF YOU ARE IIUS TOC WILL ADVERTISE YOOK Business. Send Your Advertisement in Now. nit. PROFESSIONAL. w. a Mcdowell, TE3 EDITORS LEISTJBE HOURS. Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. Mik-e North comer New Hotel. Main Street, Scotland Neck, N. C. CH?-Always at his office when not professionally engaged elsewhere. R. A. C. LI VERM ON, n OFFicE-Over J. S. Bowers & Co's store. Office 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. Practices in all the Courts of Hali fax and adjoining counties and m the a VmWal Courts. Claims supreme ij-i-- . collected in all parts of the Stote Thomas E. Watson, the late Popu list candidate for Vice-President, has declared that he is now out of politics for good. He is disgusted with things as managed by Senators Butler and Al len, and thinks the Populist party must play "hands off" with all other parties if it would succeed. He is giving his attention to his law practice. TO OLD AND YOUNG. LIFE FROM TWO STANDPOINTS. There are many attractions in the large towns and cities, to be sure, which often cause the dwellers in small towns and rural districts to feel inclined to change their habitat. But imposing brick walls and ringing pavements do not tell all about life in the city. The good people ot Norfolk are now in mor tal dread of a water famine and are as careful how they waste water as the country people are with the Christmas goodies they get from the city. w, A. DUNN, A TT ORXE Y-A T-L A IP. Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices wherever his services are c-eouired. D R. W. J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, Enfield, N. C. Office over Harrison's Dm? Store. DWARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney EST Ho tie nul Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. it LoiiiiC"l on 1'ann L,anus. If all the plans that are now being mentioned for asking various kinds ot legislation at the hands of the next General Assembly mature, that body will certainly have full hands. Busi ness will be at flood-tide for the entire sixty days. Many a town charter is to be amended, so say the bulletin boards ; and among the number is the good to.vn of Washington. The best people ol thst town are perfectly well satisfied with its present bounds and limits, we Suppose ; but they are to have a contest over the matter. H OWARD ALSTON, Attorney-at-Law, HALIFAX, N. C. R. C. A. WHITLtt-kAi;, DENTAL Surgeon, Tarboro.N. C r Judge Oundriff of Enid, Oklahoma, has been committed to the insane asy lum, having become insane over poli ties. He was formerly of Nebraska, mid made the speech that nominated W. J. Bryan for Congress the first time During the recent campaign he stump ed Kansas and Nebraska for Mr. Bryan, and the strain and excitement were eo heavy it unbalanced his mind. It is worth while for every citizen to be in terested in whatever concerns the wel fare of the country, but when it comes m o-oins crazv about a thing, men cuiiht to hold up a little. Some Rambling 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 tound week by week in the columns of this paper only, as we have made arrangements with the author for their exclusi ye pub lication.) With perfect quiet around me I sit at the end of Thanksgiving day in the book lined study of an aged minister surely a right psychological climate, for m this room have been written words to sick souls and think over my weekly message. To whom shall it be directed ? To the aged : Have you at this season thanked the Almighty for spar ing your life up to the present, or have you been moaning for the "good old days"? I trust not this latter. 1 read in Shakespeare and other early books many things regarding the aged. In those swashbuckler times the average man no sooner lost his quickness of eye and activity of body than he was too often carelessly pushed aside to develop peevishness and a general dissonance from the world. I have not the slight est doubt that Shakespeare correctly mirrored his day and age. Compare those conditions with the present. Admitting that there is a sort of dead-line at fifty, after which a man can scarcely hope to get entry in to a new business, the young and ac tive being almost alone in demand, there yet remain twenty and more pos sible years of life to enjoy the fruits of early industry and to take share in a world that holds out vast possibilities i of rich inspiration in church work, in reforms, in culture, and in thought. But to enjoy life and to fight off the day when the young no longer listen to you with interest, you mujt make up your mind not to oppose new knowl edge just because it differs from your earlier impressions Whenever, as in timated, you sigh for the former days, onri civ t.hp nrpsent are worse, it is an auv 't.T i you think? The other day she called on a sick boy though she did not know him. We boys reverence her." That is a model old age. To the young : Remember, young folks, as you grow with me into a fuller understanding of your actual existence I as a living responsible thing, separate as to identify from every other, that the world is and must be run by the people that are in it. How absurdly simple that sounds ! But the sound is the only simple part of it. Give the fact deep thought and it will encour age you as it has me te put forth the best effort possible. To realize that the multitudinous activities of the world are based upon living beings, not dead ones, is to get the belief burned into your soul that you obscure, in significant, weak perhaps are a part of the machinery. Then too the active participants in the great affairs of the world are just ordinary occasionally very ordinary human beings. They have the same kind of flesh as you, the same tenden cy to idleness, the same pleasure in ease, the same series to run through ol birth, growth, death. True, all people HINTS TO FARMERS. GOOD SUGGESTIONS. The Davis Warehouse, What is Best and What is Not. Philadelghia Record. It there is a dead limb on a tree cut it off, as it may be diseased. If a .dead limb is seen close observation of the tree should be made to discover the cause. There , should be regular hours for feeding, not varying a minute, and the animals will soon learn the proper limes and will come up to the barn from the fields without being driven or called. The larger an animal the more it costs to maintain it, as a rule, hence it will cost much more, in proportion to weight, to produce a hog weighing 500 pounds than one weighing 100 pounds, consequently there is a larger profit per pound irom the small hog than from the large one, and the farmer can keep more email hogs than he can larae ones. I I ' " When large numbers of stock are fed cannot be great, but that does not take j together the stronger will continually crowd away the weaker ones, who Jail to procure enough food to keep in good thriftv condition. Such an unequal them out of the machine or away from the need of doing their little part well. It would be a fine engine indeed made only of piston-rods. Where then the steam, the boiler to contain it, the governor to control it, the heat to gen erate it? The things we have around us, creature comforts, etc., are the re sult of an endless series of causes and effects, so that our breakfast table even is loaded down with the products of widely separated places. So long, too, as you and I live, we are in a living chain of human beings, each one bear, ing some share of the pull or responsi bility that bears upon all. When you have reached this point of deduction from my simple assertion, "the world is run by the people that are in it," you will hnd growing up in your heart a sense of consecration. If you feel at all as I do you will say "So help me God, as I am part ot this huge human machine, as my faithfulness even in the most obscure spot will help to make it better, I will watch not to tall short of my duty," and, dear eager souls scattered over this country in the ROCKY MOUNT, W. C. I desire to say to the Tobacco Growere of Halifax nnd'adioimng countie. that I am better prepared than ever, to get yi 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, I do not hesitate to tell you that Rocky Mount is the market ard the Dayis Warehouse the place, to sell your tobacco. GIVE ME A TRIAL AND I WILL PLEASE YOU. PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALLJSH1 PM EXTS. o in i our friend, Buckner Davis. undoubted evidence to your listeners busy city, the silent farmhouse, 4the that your mind is no longer receptive dreary hillside, the fertile valley, let me and that you are not merely old in tell you that consecration to an ideal years but actually and really old in hath satisfaction in it. mind. ft He who is constantly gaining knowl- YqW Eules for Getting On. edge and assimilating it never grows old ; and when Nature's last debt is Selected. paid he is sincerely missed. j ge honest. Dishonesty seldom One of the greatest business success- r i ... : knmaooinor rvr I lit' es Ol IC. age is mo uiiuiro"e ' power of Niagara Falls to run the street cars and electric light plants in Buffa lo, some forty miles away. The "tumb- ling waste of waters" thus utilized Is SCOTLAND NECK STEA3I DYE WORKS alm0st startling in its realities ; and the .Mourning Goods a Specialty success of the venture is due principal- i.. at, William F Rankine, a young Get price list. Address p Scotland Neck Steam Dyeing Co. lawyer unaer - - i4lv Scotland secs; i. v mine caicuiauuuo - r ers to devise a plan for this work, it was left for Mr. Rankine to thus harness the mighty power that has been lost in its roaring thunder .for ages, and turn it to utility for the convenience and happiness of mankind. BRICK ! HAVING INCREASED MY FACIL ITIES I AM NOW PREPARED TO FURNISH DOUBLE QUANTITY OF BKICK. Some time ago I was visiting in a makes one rcn, and when it does, rich- doctor's office in Deleware. In came eg &re R curse There is no such thing his silver-haired wife, a woman of sev- dishonest success. enty, and with a good deal of glee she 2 Work. The world is not going pointed to the perfect arrangement oi tQ ,ou or nothing. Ninety per the petals of a plant that she had not cent of what men cali laient is only a hitherto seen in the garden. I glanced iua for nara WOrk ! at her radiant face and understood tne q t independent. Do not lean on secret of beautiful, companionable age; otherg tQ j0 your thinking or to con it is always to be on the alert lor some- difficulties. thine new and interesting io mis uicod- Enter into that business or waue ed world wherein we are permitted to tnRt yQU like begt ani for which na llnger for a time. ture seems to have fitted you, provided A perfect illustration of this is seen . j honoraWe. in that dear "Old Boy," Oliver X endell 5 con8Cientious in the discharge Holmes. Gladstone is another case. everv duty. Do vour work torough- No, one can associate the idea ot age Q one can rise with him, when, witn persistency uv wQrk remarkable, be continues to write on g jyoa't try to begin at the top. the most erudite subjects and brightens at the bottom and you will have them with the very latest gleanings of r chance to nse ana you will be sure knowledge. J to reach the top sometime. Another instance comes to my mind. Trugt in hard work. Inscribe on nrnduct Last Sundav I heard Dr. Edward Ever- banner, "luck is a fool, pluck is a truly a product of B3ston. This friend of . j Va m-niin who have . 1 Vrn vmir an. Ho mes, aim ui w 6'u"r i . ha nunctuai. j i - . . ji: .. ?J t .. I . ' . . ... Amrin lit. .. liable to sudden emus, buuu. 6 ty-five years ago uie iuC maae eosum uu-, "T . . pomtmem. e wr """" ; o -hpv are snre to do in cold weath- very "'"i timo if vnn have to IOS6 VOUr dinner ij i " . , " r Women lawyers are ot the last quarter of a century. division causes an increase in the cost. It is better to divide up into reasonably small lots, according to size, age and condition. More money can be made from poul try as a business, in proportion to capi tal invested, than from anything on the farm, but not by giving up such work to women and children. Some expe rience is necessary to success, and the business, though supposed to be easily understood, is difficult. The hens pay well at all seasons and cost but little in summer. The average yield of corn m the United States is not qui'e 28 bushels per acre. It is smaller than it should be, even in this great corn year, and shows that the farms of this country are not made to yield as largely as the land is ca.Me of doing. With more fertilizers and proier rotation of crop:- the average yield of corn coull be in- j created at least 25 per cent., which , would produce a sum equal to all the mortgages on farms. Larger crops cost less proportionally than those that arp smaller. When to mortgage a farm depends, V hilt. as is wen kuuwu, uywii wv-.-.-j,- fho farmor who morteases his farm in order to build a tine house upon it may find himself without farm or house should be meet with an unfavorable season. If borrowing upon mortgages to procure stock or fertilizers is done the money is then invested on the farm in a manner which permits of a return therefrom and an opportunity to pay 1 off the mortgage. No farmer should borrow, however, if be can avoid it, as he is adding interest by so doing. An excellent suggestion in a West em journal is to have an old farm wag on that is of but little value for any other purpose other than tor holding ing manure near the stable and throw the manure directly into the wagon, hauling it to the field whenever a load u nrhf- Hi 3 obtained. By so doing there win oe who slight his if th no oarnyara accuiuuiauuuo, cornstalks are shredded and the straw also cut, the manure will reach the field in a fine condition, the hurry of hauling all the manura on the farm when busy being avoided. Hogs do not do well when large num- tu r Vnt together. It disease does not get among them the hogs are still JEWELRY AMD SILVERWARE!!! WATCHES AND CLOCKS PUT IN PERFECT REPAIR. We have engaged the seryices of Mr. j. p Perry, from the Ch" ago Watch Ma kers' Ins;.tute, where he took a thorough course, and is prepared to do ALL KINDS OF REPAIRING - And Engraving. His office is at our show window in .ant. All work is guaranteed. GIVE HIM A CALL English Spavin Liniment remove! all Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and and Clemishes from horses. Blood Spavin Surbs, Splints. Sweeney, Ring worm title?, Sprains, an Swollen Through, Coughs, Etc. Save TK) by use of one bottle. War u'ted th most wondrful Blemism Cuie over known. Sold bo E. T WhitWiCtd k Co., Druggists, Scotland Neck, N. C. 10 1 Jv. E. T. WHITEHEAD & CO., 4 25 tf Scotland Neck, N. C. FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS An Old and WeuTkik.d 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, eoflcns the gums, allays all pain cur?s wind colic, and in the lest remedy for Diarrhoea. I pleasant to the tite. 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 noothor kind. (II) 9 20 I -TO- 11 I am prepared at my nev quarter to serve my old Friends and customer trom 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. Wr. fi2 Roanoke Avenue near cor. o: Avenue and Main Street, Norfolk, Va. DOLISON WHITEHEAD. r7-Also will take contract to practjclng law was "laughed to scorn, erature, is growing Do sure cold. Besides, in any large 101 mere Ko difference in size. The 1 1 3kllll(1 ence ana orueio DWv,. X. A. ' , rr tliomgpivpa alter- rnnlLA l"'-v,v"-o - 4 hn)H HID W. flna mU BAUUCiu furnish lots irom yyY" I R j. f fis is trulv an age of development, line jvioses, ui " - ur do it. . fn ftxtreme beat and extreme or more anywnere wiuim - vnice. instead ol hemg a ireoieux ft. Be polite. Jfivery. dow, every - .u 50 miles of Scotland iNec and in mM the census ax - .g deep and full and make8 me emile wH1 money ln your pocket i - . .ivi I n-nniMii mwvcio u i , n ns ansi nriwr. ill I - , . a.-. n - - mi thprp were 4w v. j . . , 1, trnm in tihuubuic k"v-i i 1 1 1 Knann ipjbi i.iih 11 vtm eaui ('in -llwavs turnisn ua i , iuiu., . - xv. an .nrta j .v,,in thorp has . . ct,Anith honeath I . . , irr-i, vou want. Correspona- United states. the vtace oi w -7-7" .. not run in aeou - Lmm hfl flfl(iinff nlflce9. An underling been no census taken since tna un a Drldge. wnen u "7" leaks and you can VB"U among a herd of hogs has a poor chance x i r,nw kw wav some emphatic thought irenerous. Meanness makes among a nera u b r it is safely estimaieu j 1 " Jtnnann9n(l , .. .... for Broinc. Thesameamouwu. 1 ma wnuit; uju-t dw..- ta mil nit. Yet. thought I, .... i,lf 00 aiswu" " i'"' ; 7. have women lawyers, uu - mannerisms, voice, fame, tnese nre, ANOTHER SMART WOMAN - many as the United state. would not have drawn sucn au hn,hand is poor but proud and a r I I r avk A WAV" I T As late as 1870 the Supreme court o, faad there not been m nis serui wanfc me tQ worfe . Rg j have d THinois denied tne ngu 1-10-05-ly 5IEKTIOX THIS PAPER. for eroding, given to hogs distributed in small lots of even size will make more pork than if a large Dumber are fed together in discriminately. SAAC EVANS, GENERAL CARPENTER .-lnSn Work done cheap WJl K J1 a"- ' t,1 and every piece guaranteed. 7 ly Gotland J feet and harmonious . ' nothing to do I get restless and atter thought, the questions, the difficulties "8 Rusgeirg ex. .7 1 rcii"'& x 1 Chief of thl8 actual Preseu,'uaJ" rut wv THAT CHURNS ONE a v MINUTE. ,.t.ie law. and the United otai ou - . ,av reading (,,altv of Bracket and bcron ourt amrmed its decision .1 ,i,0r,iinsr. Three years . , Q rnaflatne. nor as lim- A CUI1L1U x ' . ....1 n mv lif and havemany times cnurn Justice i;uai , norasiearucu-o - l.T P. Casev fe Co., St LiOUls, aio., wiu ;- Kd,Wfr wnnld . ......Mthfl same State ... i tuair nnssibilities and tneir eu- - T tatt lea ior an -- later tne i.egiiai' , neu vv. 1- thev treated me so nicei iui 1 J .1 nro. . o fhnea ni an eaiiici v. i . t o apt that sex suuuivi v Moymeuuiwuiw-. - 1 . mllh Pnoonratred. as soon as 1 th.t ' I - - . . . I. Anmn MA I J " . 1 1 ,ly nope ior lUC m oamr,ift iron I started out and eluded to to try it. is. very nay ior a presentuay nence selling selt-heating flat-irons All can not be as pleasant aa r j d trv lU j wrote to 1 have teen in xn J norasiearneaa8- . - . c st Louis, Mo TOHN SKIPWITH. BOOT and SHOE-MAKER. passed elude no person from any occupation appear, eo when I heard of ot a churn that would churn in a minute, I con- Your only hope ior iu 1' . '"J r . ut-nr. From that time " . ' . " , in th. sold 8 irons tne nrst uay, lu.." i ' min,it. but I eot more and except in v. j k tnem ieei your T . t less tnan eignt any uajr ... -- - r ' rtnivl . I - . - I -av T Vtttn Mlf for III ft II W 1 111 ItUCJ women have had law pneucu, nt day and your kindly entry ai a d one day i sold x - -;- imn)rtant lnfor. . . a. ct.ta it . . , i ; . -va aniri, vqui nisar mnnRT. hiiu mv uub- i.uuu. . Tiiioma and trom mat o " rwnh ems ana reruwAmw. nave (p , - . eyes in ami"-", i ius . nthora ChlCagO j iff a ..n nt the sweetest solace ing, - " t riht rv churning in less than sixty mil mjs . . I wnftn X ten mil. - . I,. i i . A Ip-ive him to 1 nave soiu i AW Awrors Wife, in the past month, is. very WANTED A gentleman of mul ing to represent Combined Contract comprising two of the largcsi invest ment and life inMivrnce compTiics in Ainprica. Addrrs Tliw. A.P.Cliam lin. S'n't. Ki!--t n -r CRoomsl2 to It.) Mcii'.l iJtiihUni:, Washington, D. C. 1.1EF IN SIX HOURS. Digressing Kidney and Bladder din- . t t . L ((V mm ear-cs lviiovpil in mx nours bj u " f KI'.AT Sol'TII Amibkax Kll'NTV Ci i r." This new rrmedy l a giT surprise on account of its exceeding pioinplnei-s in relieving pain m tne hladdcr, l.iJncys b.icrf and every pare of the urinaiv passages in male or fe tmilo. It relieves retention f water and pain in p..fing it almost immcdi dtely. If you want quick relief and euro tii'.s i your letuedy. S-.ld 'V K. T. Whitehead and Co., 13rmri'isiB. K-wtlnid Neck. N. C HOW THE DIPPER SAVED THE FARM. T?afhr was sick and the mortgage on ; fh farm was com i ntr due, I saw in the Christian Advocate where Miss A. M. Fritz of Station A., ftt. jxhus, mv., , would eend a sample combination dip per for 18 two cent stamps, and I order edone. I saw the dipper could be used as a fruit jar filler ; a plain cupper , a fine strainer; a funnel; a strainer! . i . u worm i ntr nan and i "Deslens pent to ."i.' iunnei , a m. w" "-r; f J: " ,,1 de- a pint measure. These eignt umeiwi ,ritmg f0r them iiieaw the dinner such a necessary article that I went to work with it and it sells at very near every house, adu in four months I paid off the mortgage I think 1 can clear as mucn as month. If you need work you can do well by giving this a trial. Miw A. 31. Fritz, Station a, &t. xjoui, send you a sample for 18 2 cent stamps. Write at once. o A- 10 22 13t I ceased and me Umit a- to ce. au work warranted strictly nrth entirely satisfactory. fl 1 ly Work DeliTered at Any I('lot. MF.STIOX TUTS PAPER. hn snread to manj . ' f f them Miss Blanche Fear- of the most remarKauic ui 6c im""10 . , . . j - : . . o Vmr! Wire n tlie tiast UIODID. mwy uuwi ui - . i.fi.. i j r ,T,,nr fnr anvice anu ktiiu- frI1r a one: - a . r. : i ,0 Windv City. She is ioia..j wara oi iuc , : -. Aninfr :n9t riffht. your hus- er that has seen me cnuru , K vfi - , , I i i ..-lth a nnsil 111 uia t u'i I i njo v.v."0 j z ' - . .. mg is one Groceries AND CONFECTIONERIES. n. Door North of Stem',, St. " haVanainei to considerable ance. AloU, oi yio go right . mitt,e.bogh, one. You e obtain - - . ji A nnAt I r. tho cniiRire uuvB oi - i . .. , j an. oil HaQinwi information reicaruiu;; distinction both aa a lawyer auu,. - - tbrough ahead b7ad5ressing J. F. Casey & Co.. UdV WMV" I AyfMltlP VV'f 1TT1 M II tl&M VVf f . ll 1 ...... wafin Idea - - t .r bring yoB wwi. I my iBWi-e ' AUA1RI-'I"- Wafk" nosh lookB after us boy. jet. vna, no nngn. A - wmjut . " TiTTir kudiid inrwnu- Great Offer. THE COLUMBIA BUSINESS COL LEGE, ot NORFOLK, VA., offers a full course in Stenography or Book keeping and Penmanship for only 025 (Time Unlimited.) Just think of gaming such an educa tion for so small an amount. This of fer is good only until Jan. 10, Ji. Write for particulars to Columbia Business lolleo., jm Norfolk, Va. 11 26 Jim nuosoN 'S ENGLISH KITCHEN, 187 Main St., NORFOLK, VA. Is the Leading Dining Room in the . fi. ! i City for Ladies and ueniiemen. oinci ly a ffcmperance Place. All meals 25c jpHi:don-"8rpMtng Co3ee a Special tv. a xu ly M S. R. ALLEY, PH0T0G?tAPHEE Tarboro, N. 0. NEW STUDIO OVER JOHN BATTLE'S SHOE STORE. SIDE ENTRANCE. gtyWILL BE GLAD TO HAV3 ALL MY FRIENDS AMD PAT RONS CALL AND SEE ME. Reasonable Prices AMD All Work Guaranteed First-clii 6 27 tf -4 A 1 c i 7 5