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ADVEETISINQ IS TO BUSINESS IF YCII ACE CUSTLLI you wuiL ADVERTISE TOUR Bosinesa -WHAT STEAM IS Machinery, E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. 3r" That Greai Propeiaist Power. EXCELS! IS OUR MOTTO. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00. VOL. Xm. New Series Vol. 1. SCOTLAND NECK, N. Oj' THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1896. Send Your Advertisement in Now, NO. 2. v v v a mm m. mb - . t - - . 1 7 T 1 h AT W ATOvT TTTTTTn- A TT ATTTTTr : II II II I I Ji II II 11 I X X XII l I I ' I - - -i lX I 11 1 I II ! II II II II TO- II II II I I 1 ill II II I 1 1 I I III-. I I A l I II II II II II II j V M l It I 1 I I I IV N il V I I I X X I III 111 II I II II II I I I THAT CLASS OF READERS THAT YOU Wish your Advertisement TO REACH .- is the class who read this psiwr. PROFESSIONAL. 0 r. w. o. Mcdowell, Office North corner New Hotel, Mail Street." Scotland Neck, N.C. 'Always at his office when not professionally engaged elsewhere. D R. A. C. LIVERMON. lit 6 OFFiCE-Over J. S. Bowers & Co's store )tfice hours from 0 to 1 o'clock ; 2 t I o'clock, p. m. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. QAVID 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. Claim? collected in all Larts of the State. A. DUNN. A TTORNE Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices wherever his services art quired. D R. W. J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, ESFIELD, N. Office over Harrison's Druf Store. E DWARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. gjFMonpy Loaned on Farm. Lands. H OWARD ALSTON, At corney-at-Law, HALIFAX, N. C. D R. C. A. WHITEHEAD, DENTAL Surgeon, Tauboro, N. C SCOTLAND NECK STEAM DYE WORKS Mourning Goods a Specia lty Get price list. Address Scotland Neck Steam Dyeixo Ci 1-24-1 v Scotland Neck N. ( BRICK ! HAVING INCREASED MY FACIL ITIES I AM NOW PRE FA RED TO FURNISH DOUBLE QUANTITY OF 5JKICK. si?""Also wi;l take contract 2furiiish lots troui 50,00 gjOT'or more anywhere withh. oU miles of Scotland. iNecK. (Jan always Inrush what, you want. Correspond- ence and orders solicited D. A. BIADDRY, L-10-95-ly Scotland Neck, N. C. mention this paper. ISAAC EVANS, GENERAL CARPENTER. A specialty of Bracket and Scroll work of all kinds. Work done cheap and every piece guaranteed. 7 lv Scotland N JOHN SKIP WITH. BOOT and SHOE-M Groceries AND CONFECTIONERIES. One Door North of Stern's, Mai St. 7 h ly , Scotland Neck,. N. CiWyoii," THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS' Fwints and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. Some one observes that America is feeding the world. The wheat-fields of the West are constantly sending forth three streams of supplies of the "staff of life." One goes towards the Pacific coast for shipment .East ; another to wards New Orleans, and still another towards the Atlantic seaboad. A man whose official position in the revenue service enables him to know what he was talking about, told us tnat the manufacture of intoxicating liquors is increasing. He said one on the out side has no idea what is going on. One reason, he said, for the increase in the manufacture is the low price of grain. While grain is so cheap it is possible t-o make the liquor cheap, and with a rise in the price of gram the cost of producing liquor would be correspond ingly higher, and so a less quantity would be manufactured. The people of North Carolina are be coming much interested' in the ques tion of better Lee school facilities, and the Legislature will doubtless be asked to take steps looking to lengthening the term of the free schools. It is a matter of much importance and the people of the State are so regarding it. The private school interests In the State seem to be better than for some me. The academies and other pri vate schools are flourishing in almost very county and community, and it is proper that the State improve the free schools as much as the private schools improve, and more if possible. Recently before, tha New York Su preme Court an attorney remarked in in extenuation ot an acknowledged weakness of his client, "The best of men get drunk." The Judge quickly mnoueed his dissent, sayine, "The best f men do not get drunk. If there ev w!,s such a time it has gone by r 'Ins and all other civilized communi ties." A similar incident occurred in the Criminal court in Halifax two weeks :go A lawyer was questioning a wit ess ri- to the character of another per son concerned in the case. The wit aess taid that he had seen the man in question drunk. Whereupon the law yer asked, "Seme of the best men in i he county get drunk, doa't they?" To which we believe the witness assented, but there are many people in the coun ty who would dissent and say with the ,'ew York Supreme Court. "The best people do not get drunk." The subject has sometimes been dis overed as to whether or not this is a "hnstian nation. Of course it is socon--lered, but when we read from the -ords of the Wise Man : "When the i j;htefus are in authority the people fjoice ; but when the wicked oeareth ule the people mourn," and listen at V wail of distress that is coming up 'nm so many parts of the country, it vould seem that in many places the vicked are in authority. Of the seven tv millions of people in this country more than twenty-two millions are members of some one of the Christian denominations, and it is estimated that as many as fifty-four millions are nom inally christian, being under the direct iufluence of the denomination. But it is with this question as with a!' others with which we have to do. Seeming to be and being are quite dif ferent' things. Many of the men who bear rule in this nation to-day are bet ter than they are supposed by their po litical enemies; but far too many are men of open and blatant wickedness, such as ought to turn them down from places of position and trust. "It is very kind of you madam," said the tramp, "to give me such a fine din ner." "Don't mention .it, you poor man," said the kind hearted woman. "But I will repay you," said the tramp, gratefully. "I'll tell all my pals that you are a flinty-hearted old termagant that aint never known how to cook nothin' decent, bo they'll give your house the go-by, and won't never both- ' CHRISTMAS THOUGHTS. ALL TEBOUGH JESUS. "EMMANUEL-GOD WITH US.' Some Rambling Thoughts. BY NEMO. (Copyrighted.) (These "Thoughts," by a layman, are read in fave hundred thousand homes, scattered in every State of the Union. In this county they will be found week by week in the columns of this paper only, as we have made ar rangements with the author for their exclusive publication.) To you whose hearts are crushed with dumb sorrows that you cannot tell ; to you whose burdens are heavy and chafing ; to you whose way is nar row and dark ; to you who are puzzled as to the meaning of life and your own existence : to you I write. Be patient at this season ot rest and diversion to ponder the words of a hum ble soul gazing upward to interpret to himself the lightning-flash of unani mous thought that leaps trom country to country at Christmas-tide. The great and the head-wise are often wrong; while the humble and obscure serve to make and transmit the public opinion that gradually overthrows error. Note that the wise men were turned aside to Jerusalem while the simple shepherds, patiently doing their weari some duties by night, untroubled by the puzzling questions of the Magi.l learned more than these about "peace and good-will." Since their day each age has through its wisest tried to recreate and interpret anew the fragmentary career of the lowly man. They have darkened his counsel with words, they have smoth ered the breadth of his purpose, they have tried to wall around the sea of his goodness, they have attempted to seal up and confine the sunshine of truth. But over against tht limitrarf Jisrhf. the monopolists of heaven, the head wise interpreters, must be set the heart of the common people, who, like the man born blind, cannot srgue down sophistries and puzzle out intricate faiths, but can simply fall back upon he unanswerable demonstration of ;eare and good-will, "whereas I was blind now I see." Because he was so real a man, tempted like themselves, the great common heart lias held fast to him through centuries of rapine and licentiousness among his professed in terpreters, through ages of creed-maK-ing and creed-breaking, through cycles f bloodshed and persecution by the professed exponents ot "peace and good will." Have miracles ceased? It is a miracle that any of his plain teachings should still live ; yet steadily the light has climbed the mountain sides of per version and now shines lull strongly down into the valley of the shadow of death that we traverse. Because then his friends were the lowly, his mourners the tainted and the bereft, his most ' faithful servants through all ages the outcasts and the obscure ; because all this is the People's Age, the age of democracy when the right to think and to learn is no longer denied to us by the lofty ones, may it not have come to pass that this time ot ill times most remote from the customs, the ideas that surrounded Jesus, is the best fitted after all to measure the length and breadth of the announcement of 'peace and good-will" that has so long remained echoless. And what is he to us, we anxious, burdened workers? Whatever else sec taries may discover in him, to this soul he seems to be "just one of us." We believe that his temptations were not mere theatric displays, that his suffer ing was not feigned. We know what agony is, not less did he ; in our cases we can too often trace it back to a breach of law, but not so could he, and thus the greater poignancy in his suf ferings. We do not lower him by thus thinking of him, but we raise ourselves to a higher, nobler humanity. Surely that was the work he came to do ! Because he was a man, manhood is glorious ; because he triumphed oyer evil, manhood is helped to trample temptation under foot ; because he re mained pure and undefiled, there is ever just before us an exemplar to copy. We discover him to be no splitter of theological hairs ; no creator and enfor cer of a set belief save in God, the fa ther of all, from which cause we are His sons, and brothers to J esus. "Deeds, not creeds ; deeds are creeds," his for ward cry. 'Tis creed enough to see in him a career to imitate. "Creeds first, deeds afterwards," the opposing words of those who, by their human folly, wf uld have darkened the light that rose intbe the human heart from his career. , Through him we see that those who never understand their grandeur, whose hearts never throb with noble purpose, whose powers never rejoice to run the race of life, are those who Iook outward from within perpetually, as though the uniyerse circled for them, atone. To such, wrapped up In self, whose souls needs must be saved though all others perish, willing to take but unwilling to give, dead though appearing to live ; to all such his life stives rebuke. From him we learn a truth that the great world around is fast grasping ; that he who gives most gets most ; he is filled with good things and crowned with glory and honor imperishable, who scattereth all of good that he has, that his soul is best saved whoje soul Is self- reckoned as naught if he can but save others. To breathe such an atmos phere of spirit after groveling in agony as some of us do, afraid to live and yet more afraid to die, is to move from the air of the dungeon into the ecstasy of the mountain top. Life lived in his way has infinite width to it ; it is its own great reward, yet other rewards there be. It hushes the clamoring pas sions, it gives a man world-citizenship ; it enables him to see a kinsman in every fellow ; it thrills him even in obscurity with a sense of brotherhood to all the great souls of all the ages ; it guides the hand upward into the Divine, and the narrow, darkened way broadens into a golden, shimmering spread ot light up which to travel to the real center of things. Whether avowedly or not matters ittle, it is his spirit that thrills the closing years of our century. Against the fatalism and materialism of Ma hommed, against the selfishness and pessimism of the Hindoo anxious to escape away into unconsciousness, against the slavish worship of the past by the Confucians, we see a virile, ag gressive, hopeful force at work in every nation that has fallen under the influ ence of Je3us. Hide-bound Judaism never emancipated the human mind, as his influence has done. The growing t hough tf ulnose man fpr jtjtianjs his I work ; the spirit of Jesus is abroad to bring us all together m one as human bsmgs with mutual obligations. He it is who makes us feel a kinship to the fallen woman and the fallen man ; to the agonized and the children ; for are they not all bearing the image of hu manity, which he, the great unselfish one, the friend of sinners, also bore? Yet some of us are groping ou ward as if in a night-black passage. We glance bewildered at the events, the dangers, the pleasures of life, and then pass away forever without understanding our rela tion to it and our fellows.( I can imag ine All-Father mourning over such wasted force, such profitless existence, when the key of life is already within the world and within our reach : "Emmanuel ; God with us !" CHRISTMAS TIMES. It's comin' 'long Christmas with its pleasures an' its joys, -An' we're all a-looking forward to the meetin' with the boys ; An' Sue will come from college, an' Jimmy won't forget, An' we'll all feel mighty thankful that we're all a-livin' yet ! The turkey's been a spreadin' of bis feathers fatin' fine, An' his "gobble, gobble, gobble" seems a darin' us to dine ; But the verdict's been agin him, an' his execution's set. An' he makes us feel right happy that we're all a-livin' yet ! There's folks'll come from Texas, an' Illinois and Maine ; New YorK'll send us Billy, an' Hamp- shire'll give us Jane ; We'll have a great handshakin' when all the friends air met, An' won't we feel right happy that we're all a-livin' yet ! It's comin' 'long Christmas with all its love and light ; Its dinners in the daytime its melo dies at night. The turkeys' fat and juicy the tablets silver's set. An' we're teelin' mighty happy that we're all a-livm' yet !. The Grandest Remedy. Mr. R. B. Greeye, merchant oLCbil howie, Va., certifies that he had con sumption, was given up to die, sought all medical treatment that money could procure, tried all cough remedies he could hear of, but got no relief ; spent many nights sitting up in a chair : was induced to try Dr. King's New Discov ery, and was cured by use of two bottles For past three years has been attend ing to business, and says Dr. King's New Discovery is the grandest remedy ever made as it has done so much for him and also for others in his commu nity. Dr. King's New Discovery is guaranteed for Coughs, Colds, and Con sumption and for all affections of Throat, Chest, and Lungs, there is nothing so good as is Dr. King's New Discovery. Trial bottle free at E. T. Wh i tehead & Co.'s Drug Store. Regular size 50 cents and JpJ.W. CHRISTMASjOUTLOOK. THE FATAL SEASON. Toys, Goodies and Gayety. Selected. And now, when the landscape takes on an ashen, chilly air, and the last copper leaf has fallen from the mossy twig, we scent the fragrant cheer of Christmas in the near future. " For the days that must come between now and the blossoming of the ever-festal anni versary bear about the same relation to it that a long garden-walk does to the castle to which it leads. On each side of this path are lovely flowers, set out in an artistic fashion well calculated to please the refined sense of all apprecia tive and cultured people. It is a vista of joy that is a guarantee of the char acter of the castle and ot the man who occupies it. It tells you that his pic tures and cigars are of the highest col or of excellence, and that his furniture is not of the gorgeous, plush-covered, installment kind. It likewise assures you that he would not wear russet shoes in full dress, nor pour his granulated tobacco into the flame by attempting to light his pipe over the lamp chimney. Even so is the airy avenue that leads to the rosy day which ranks among ordinary days as a proud, prancing pal frey would rank in a chaste coterie ol superannuated car-horses. And along this avenue what lovely things we see to till us with sweet and rosy dreams of anticipation. To the small boy the toy-store windows are hot-houses of rare exotics, for the toys bloom like flowers that to him are perennial, and never fade even long after the paint has been knocked off. The rose of his world J may fade, like the day upon which there is no school, but thei?pots remain on the toj' leopard after they have van ished, and the stripes are to him as lasting as those of the flag he loves. In the candies he sees beds of spicy carna tions and blushing tulips that he longs to cull and fashion into epicurean bou quets, to wear jivith pride and s.itisfac ron npnn "his Tnnei hoy. "And he pauses be lore these windows of never- ending eiK'bankncnt, as over t!io pac. o! a Fairy talc that never hcvni?s tire some or loses its Mibtle, mystic charm He looks upon the dolls, whei her con structed of wax or paper, as real person ages, and most important ones, too :and even at the dry-goods window I.e. 1 ks upon the stocking with a tender will fulness, until he regards them not as articles of wearing-apparel, but as arti cles made for the express purpose of being suspended by the open tire-place against the coming of Santa Claus. And then there are the pretty holiday books that lie open on the counters like summer landscapes with their wealth of illustrations, and appeal to people who do not care for books in July, any more than they care for the seashore and its murmurous billows in the dead of winter, when the winds howl and pile the snow-drifts before your front door until you have literally to pry yourself out to start upon your daily pilgiimage in the trembling kiss of dawn. But perhaps the finest Christ mas book is the one you can balance on the right side at this merry season of bills. It is a book of fine reading, to which every man can furnish fitting illustrations from the festive negative ot his mind. These pictures, of course have a great deal ot Christmas feeling and color in them, and they set forth the suspended market goose as a rich and glowing cameo of neverending joy, while the turke becomes an object worthy of shining as a facade upon the grandest castle of ancient Athens or of modern Morristown. And when he sees the live turkey trying to be happy in a crate, and looking very much like a six-foot man endeavoring to rest on a canvas-back cot with his feet dangling over one end and his head over the oth er, be listens to the red-whiskered bird that seems to be saying, "Merry Christ mas ! Merry Christmas ! !" And every dealer in the town, no matter what line he may be in, is car ried away and overjoyed ny the com ing festival that he scents from afar, that he leels certain that ins wares are the proper ones to select for a gift. The barber advises you to take home a bot tle of hair restorer, which is useless alike to the man who has or who hasn't hair The barber booms it as a proper gift with the enthU8iasn displayed by the skate-dealer and the oil-stove man ; and it is really surprising that the same line of tactics is not employed by the manutacturer of hammocks and lawn mowers. But, nevertheless, the days that lead to Christmas are very dear days, richly fringed, filligreed and ara basqued with all the rosy flowers of fond anticipation ; and as they pass on in a lovely pageant, it is like a proces sion to a fairy realm. There is music in the silent air and in the silent heart, and it is a music that ripples along with a tender charm, like a . summer brook among lilies; and the days march to it with gentle and noisless tread, until they pause at the gate ot Christmas, whose snowy wreath sparkles in the frosty air that trembles with songs of cheer and good will, quite as melodious in sentiment as the Christmas bells whose echoes linger in the crisp blue sky.. Great Offer. THE COLUMBIA Bt SINESS COL LEGE, ot NORFOLK, VA., offers full course in Stenography or Book keeping and Penmanship for only $215 (Time Unlimited.) Just think of gaining such an educa tion for so small an amount. This of fer is good only until Jan. 10, HJ7, Write for particulars to Columbia Business Colleuk, 11 26 3m Norfolk, Va. JEWELRY SILVERWARE!!! WATCHES AND CLOCKS PUT IN PERFECT REPAIR. We have engaged the seryices of Ma. J. P Perry, from the Cir" jgo Watch Ma kers' Inrl.cute, 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 front. All work is guaranteed. GIVE HIM A CALL 32. T. WHITEHEAD & CO., 4 25 tf Scotland Neck. N. C. -TO- I am prepared at my new quarters to serve my old Friends and customers trom North Carolina with the best Tonsorial : Service. You get a QUICK AND EASY SHAVE, Remembering vour liberal patron age in the past I hope to receive it still. No. G2 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 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 fine strainer ; a funnel ; 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. Mis 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 Q-EO. L. PARKER, Rail, Road Watch Inspector. HIGH GRADE JH FI1 y I M ill ALWAYS OS HANI). Bridal Presents in Sterling and Plated Silver of Elegant Designs. A FULL LINE OF THE - Best Spectacles - and Eye Glasses. EYE-SIGHTTESTED FREE. ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. 9 2i tf gUDSON'S ENGLISH KITCHEN, 187 Main St., NORFOLK, VA. Is the Leading Dining Rdom in the City for Ladies and Gentleman. Strict ly a Temperance Place. Allpieals 25c. C"HucUon'B SnrpuninA Coffee s Specialty. ( v 16 ly English Spavin Liniment removes alPIIard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and and Clemishes from hornet. Blood Spavin Surbs, Splints. Sweeney, Ring worm tillee, Sprains, and Swollen Through, Coughs, Etc. Save 60 by use of one bottle. Warranted the most wondrful Blemism Cure ever known. Sold bo E. T. Whitehead fe Co., Druggist, Scotland Neck, N. C. lOUv. THE NEW HOOK SPOON FKKE TO ALL. 1 read in the Christian Standard that' Miss A. M. Fritz, Station A., St. Louis, M o., would give an elegant plated hook spoon to anyone sending her ten 2 cent stamps. I send for one and found His useful that I showed it to my friends, and made $1.1.00 in two hours taking orders for the spoon. The hook spoon is a household necessity. Itcan- not slip into the dish or cook i our vessel leing held in the place by a hook on - the back. The spoon h something housekeepers have needed ever wince. siKJons were first invented. Anyone can get a sample spoon by sending ten 2-cent stamps to Miss Fritz. This is a splendid way to make money around home, ery truly. .leauettn h. FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS An Old and Weix-Trieu Kkukdit Mrs. Winslow'e Soothing Syrup has been used for over fifty years by mil- 10ns of mothers for their children while teething, with iterfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. Is pleasant to the taste. Sold by Drug gists in every part of the World. Twenty five cents a bottle, lis value is incalculable. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, and take no other kind. (R) 9 20 ly A DADY TllINCJ TO SELL. I have been doing so well this sum mer selling combination dipers (hut I think it is my duty to tell others about it. I have not rrade as much money as some I read about, but I never make less than $11, and $" a day ; tho dipper can be used as a fruit jar filler ; a plain dipper ; a Hue strainer ; a fun nel ; a strainer funnel ; a sick room warming pan, and a pint measure. These eight different uses makes tho dipper such a necessary article that it sells at nearly every house, as it is so cheap. You can cct a sample by send ing, as I did, 18 two-cent stamps to pay post a .tre, etc., to W. H. B;iird fc Co", Station A. Pittsburg, Pa., and they tn;il yitti a dipper, :ni'l yiii can g i t j ; 1 1 i v. vine cmii lti;ikr T- . A i'.r.Ai'i i:. or -T 1 it d.i .or i i i :r to repn-M ni Com I lined Contract foniiii-isim.' .-. nf 1 1 f laiirost invcsl.- ' iiK-i I ai.il 1 1 1 - m-iii u t: companies iu An.( i i-a. A'I:!n-v-Tuos. A. P. 'htiuip lin. 'ij.'i. Kir I !' n (Hooms 12 t L') Mctiili r.mi '.in', Wellington, D. C. . - i IKK IN SIX HOURS. Distress! i m Kidney and Bladder dis eases relieved in six hours by the "New (i HEAT Sotrni A M El: I CAN Kipnky Ct rk." This nt'W remedy is a jr.rc.it surprise on account of Its exceeding promptness in relieving pain iu llo bladder, kidneys, back and every part or the urinary passages in male or fe male. It relieves retention of water and pain iu passing it almost immedi ately. If you want juick relief and cure this is your remedy. Sold by E. T. Whitehead and Co., Drnsrtfista. Scotland Neck. N. C. r-'f-.r -"-i !: ' . i-p, AM Designs sent to any auVreys I'H la writing for them please give age -l de ceased unci some limit ns to price. All workVnrrarftcd strictly first-class and entirely satisfactory. " 1 Work Delivered at Any Depot. junxnox this patk:i. S. It ALLEY, PHOTOGllAPHEIV Tarboro, N. 0. HEW STUDIO OVER JOHN BATTLE'S SHOE STORE. ' SIDE ENTRANCE. WILL BE GLAD TO HAY 13 ALL MY FRIENDS AND PAT RONS CALL AND SEE ME. Reasonable Prices AND All Work guaranteed First-clv .027 tl .. , . t .."it
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