--J r ADVEETISINQ IS TO BUSINESS -WHAT STEAM IS TO- Machinery, That Grem Profelling Tower. THAT CLASS OF READERS THAT YOU Wish your AdTertiseraent TO REACH is the class who read this paper. PROFESSIONAL. IJr. w. o. Mcdowell, Office North corner New Hotel, Main Street, Scotland Neck, N. C. F"Always at his office when not professionally engaged eisewnere D IR. A. C. LIVERMON, OFFicE-Over J. S. Bowers & Co's store. Office hours from 9 to 1 o'clock; 2 to 4 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 State. W I A. DUNN, ATTORNE Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, N.C. Practices wherever his services are required. D R. W. J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, Enfield, N. C. Office over Harrison's Druf Store. E DWARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. Money Loaned on Farm Lands. H OWARD ALSTON, Attorney-at-Law, HALIFAX, N. C. D R. C. A. WHITEHEAD, DENTAL Surgeon, " Tarboko, N. C. SCOTLAND NECK STEAM DYE WORKS Mourning Goods a Specialty Get price list. Address Scotland Neck Steam Dyeing Co. 1-24-1 v " Scotland Neck N. C BRICK ! HAVING INCREASED MY FACIL ITIES I AM NOW PREPARED TO FURNISH DOUBLE QUANTITY OF BRICK. tffT" Also will take contract to "furnish lots lrom ou,uuo "or more anywhere within "5Q miles of Scotland Neck Can always furnish what, you want. Correspond ence and orders solicited. D. A. EI ADD HIT, 1-10-95-ly Scotland Neck, N. C. MENTION THIS PArElt. ISAAC EVANS, GENERAL CARPENTER. A Rttfip.ialtv of Bracket and Scroll work of all kinds. Work done cheap and every piece guaranteed. 7 ly Scotland N" - JOHN SKIPWITH, BOOT and SHOE-MAKER, Groceries . AND CONFECTIONERIES. One Door North of Stern', Main St. 7 5 lv - Scotland Neck. N. C E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. YOL. XIII. New Series Vol. 1. THE EDITORS LEISUEE EOUBS. Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. The frequent lynchinga which occur in this country are an index finger that points to the fact that the people do not think they are getting justice in the courts. Let the courts remember it, and let jurors do their duty. The X-ray experiments have ceased to be experiments, but are now down right business operations. A few days ago two officers of the fire department of Norfolk got into a difficulty when chief Martin J. Ryan was seriously shot in the thigh. By the use of the X-ray it was found that the ball ranged downward and directly in and lodged near the bone two-thirds of the distance from the knee to the hip. It thus had to be located by looking through con siderable thickness of flesh and bone, which was easily done, and the ball was so Avell located that it left little trouble to take it out. Truly the work of science is wonder ful and the progress of this age is daz zling. The cigarette habit is ruining more of the boys and yoitng men of the land than many suppose. Recently in Salisbury a boy thirteen years old died from the result of cigarette smoking. His sudden sickness baffled the physi cians at first but they learned before his death, which followed in a tew aavs, mat ine disease was the result 01 cigarette smoKing. Though quite young he had been smoking for years. We saw three small boys at a railroad station a few days ago smoking a cigarette together. One would whiff and then another. They were testing bkill at swallowing the smoke. Surely the effects of the cigarette are dangerous and all prudence ought to be used to keep boys from using them. Nothing is more important to the young, both male and female, than wise and extensive reading. Youth is tne time in which to do much, profitable reading, and alas ! too many persons put off the readi ng of books until they find themselves so pressed with business and the duty of bread-winning that they can not get the time to read. A good man who writes much for the press recently wrote this paragraph : 'How I wish I had read more when young of the kind of reading that would have had the effect of making me a more useful man than I am ! But the past can not be recalled, and I will haye to have the assistance of glasses to get into my head what once I could have got without their aid." Let the young men and young wo men, the boys and girls, who read The Commonwealth, wisely take the sug gestions of this earnest man of frosting years, and read several good books every year. It is one of the best investments ot time that they can ma&e. The colored man, Isaac B.Allen, who was elected Councilor to the Governor of Massachusetts at the late elections, seems to be a disturbing element in Republican circle up there. The Re publicans are offering him large sums to resign. He is reported as saying recently : "A few days after I was elected 1 met on the street a man whom I know well, who said : 'Allen, your fortune is made. There is no need of your worrying any more about earning a living. I have a check for $5,000 in my pocket, and it's yours if you will resign or get out as Councilor.' 'Never,' said I, 'I am in this to stay. , It is a race matter with me. You have not got money enough to buy me out.' "Next two men came to my house and tendered me a check, for $10,000 if I would go to Europe for a year 'for my health.' as they expressed it. They said that the money was contributed by prominent Republicans. On my refus al they said they would 'make it $20,- 000 if I desired. I thereupon ordered them to leave the house, and could with difficulty restrain myself from throwing them oat bodily: : 1 put my racer above money, party, of anything else, and I would not diserace it.. - Yes. sir,: I'm coim to advise the Governor, and anal be on band at every meeting of the . council. COMMOT SCOTLAND THE LEGISLATURE CONVENED WEDNEDAY, JAN. 6. Things the Law-makers are Doing. The General Assembly of North Car olina assembled in Raleigh at noon last Wednesday, 6tn. HOUSE. Chief Clerk Satterfield called the House to order. The first business was the election of Speaker ot the House. A. F. Hileman, Populist, and John S. Cunningham, Democrat, were put in nomination. The vote stood Hileman, 89 ; Cunningham, 28. Associate Justice Montgomery of the Superior Court administered the oath of office to Speaker Hileman, .Mess. Cunningham and Dockery having es corted him to the chair. Mr. Hileman, upon taking his seat said : I beg to show you my appreciation ol the honor which you have conferred upon me to preside over the delibera tions of this honorable General Assem bly. I will make errors, no doubt, but they will be from the head and not from the heart. I wish the co-operation of every member ot this House, and I shall preside impartially over every delibera tion. I hope I may have the support of every member of this body." Mr. Blauckburn, of Ashe, nominated for chief clerk Mr. Ed. Hasten, of Wilkes county. Mr. Smith, of Johnston, put in nom ination J. W. Perry, of Johnston, as the Democratic nominee for chief clerk. The vole resulted as follows: For Masten, 85 ; for Perry, 29. For reading cleric, Mr. Frank B. Ben- bow, of Yadkin county, was put in nom ination by Mr. J. R. McCrary CRep.),ol Davidson. Mr. Nelson (Dem.), of Caldwell, put in nomination Sir. J no. L,. uaultney. The vote resulted as follows : Gault- ney, 26 ; Benbow, 85. For position of door-keeper there were put in nomination Mr. W. Lee Brown, of Mecklenburg by Mr. Ransom (Dem.), of Mecklenburg ; by Mr. Parker (Pop.), of Perquimans, Mr. D. T. House, of Pitt. Mr. Brown, as stated by Mr. Ransom, in his nominating speech, is a one- armed Confederate soldier. The vote resulted as follows : House, 86 ; Brown, 28. For assistant door-keeper, Abe Mid- dleton (negro) by Sutton (Rep.), of New Hanover ; H. C. Brown, of Guilford, by Burch (Dem.), of Guilford. Mr. Brown is another one-armed Confederate sol dier, as stated by Mr. Burch in his speech, "a man," added Mr. Burch, "who sweareth to his own hurt and cbangeth not." The vote was as fol lows : Brown, 80 ; Middleton, 25. Mr. Dusk, of Buncombe, introduced the following resolution that rules of last House be those for the present House until it be the pleasure ol the House to change. Passed. Mr. Cook, of Warren, had moved to adjourn but gave way to Mr. Lusk's resolution. Mr. Sutton, of Cleveland, now moved to adjourn, but Mr. Lusk thought that it was but due respect to the Governor to receive his message before adiourning. Mr. Houser (Pop.) of Lenoir, at this point insisted on going into nomination of engrossing clerk, and as there seemed to be gener al acquiescence, he nominated Mr. B. F. Scarborough, of Lenoir, and Repre sentative James (Dem.) of Pender, nom inated Mr. Blood worth, of Pender. The vote resulted as follows : Scarbor ough, 85 ; Blood worth, 28. A resolution was introduced by Mr. Cook, of Warren, providing for the ap pointment of a committee of three, who, with a committee of the Senate, should wait upon the Governor and inform him that the House was ready to receive any. communication that he might see ht to make. The Speaker appointed the following committee: C. A. Cook, of Warren ; J. B. Schulken, of Columbus ; MeKenzie, ot Rowan. The House officers elected now came forward and qualified. A message was received from the Senate stating that it was ready for bus iness ; another naming the committee on the part of the Senate to wait upon the Governor as follows ; Senators Mc Caskie, Smathers and Parker, of Ala mance. On motion of Mr. Lusk, a resolution was passed to notify the Senate that the House was ready for business. SENATE. Promptly at noon, Lieutenant-Gover nor Donghton called the body to order, H. E. King, chief clerk of the last Senate, assisted by Capt. J. B. Lloyd, his assistant, officiated in the organiza tion, .while Sergeant-at-Atms Hallibur ton Dreserved order. In the usual manner, the Lieutenant-Governor ad ministered the oath of office. to the Senators-elect. . - - ; When all the Senators had taken the oath of office, the Lieutenant-Governor "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. NECK, 3ST. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1897. announced that fifty Senators having presented their certificates, the Senate was ready for the transaction of busi ness, and declared that the first business in order was the election of principal clerk. Senator Atwater nominated and Sen ators M. C. Caskie. and Smathers sec onded the nomination of Hill E. King, of Onslow. Senator Abelt nominated John A. Narrow, of Johnston county. The vote stood : King, 40 ; Narrow, 7. Senator Smathers said that in accord ance with an agreement between the Populists and Republicans he nomina ted, for Sergeant-at-Arms, T. N. Halli burton. Seconded by Senator Ashbur ton. Senator Parker nominated N. L. Wag staff, of Person. The vote stood : Halliburton, 10 : Wagstaff, 7. For Assistant-Door-keeper, Mr. Atwa ter nominated D. J. McArthur, of Sampson. Mr. Scales nominated L. E. Howerton, of Guilford county. The vote stood : McArthur, 40 ; How erton, 7. For Reading Clerk, Mr. McCarthy nominated J. W. Watson, of Craven. Mr. Parker nominated J. C. Brown, of Durham. The vote stood : Watson, 38 ; Brown, 8. For Engrossing Clerk, Mr. Atwater nominated J. A. Buchanan, ot Clay. Mr. Buchanan represented Clay in the House as a Democrat in 1891 and as a Populist in 1895. Mr. Anthony nomi nated D. S. Lovelace, ol Cleveland. The vote stood : Buchanan, 12 ; Love lace, 7. Senator Ray voted for Buch anan, saying he was his neighbor and a first-class man. The officers elected, except Mr. Wat son, who will arrive to-day, were then sworn in. Mr. McCaskie introduced a resolution to appoint a committee of three to co operate with a committee from the House to wait upon the Governor and inform him that the Legislature is ready to receiye his message. The chair appointed McCaskie, chairman ; Smathers and Parker. Mr. Smathers presented a gavel with the compliments of the Wi.ite-Reikell Manufacturing Company, oi Mebane. On notion of Mr. McCaskie the usual resolution to inform the House of the readiness of the Senate to transact bus iness was passed. SECOND DAY. HorsE. The most of the day's ses sion was spent in listening to the Gov ernor's Message. At the conclusion of the reading Mr. Sutton sent forward a resolution asking for the printing of 2,500 eooies of the j message. Mr. Schulken wished to a-j mend by putting 250 instead of 2,500. Mr. Brown, of Jones, moved to have one copy for each member, and the balance for the State Library. Mr. Sutton sustained his motion by saying! that it were better to have none than 250, as 2,500 was only half of what was printed last time. Mr. Parker, of Per quimans, moved to make it 500. The motion was declared carried to print 250 copies, but Jir. iarris, oi iiyae, de manded division but was declared out of order. On motion of Mr. Johnson, of Samp son, the House, at one minute past 2, adjourned until 11 o'clock next morn ing. Committees were announced af fol lows : ' Judiciary Lusk, chairman ; Sutton, of Cumberland, Cook, Young, Schulken, Price, Craven, Scales, Cunningham. Privileges and Elections Cook, chairman ; Blackburn, Sutton of New Hanover, Peace, Bryan ot Chatham, Brown, Person of Wayne, Cunningham, Gallup. Rules Sutton of Cumberland. Brow- er, Bryan of Chatham, Schulken, Nel son. son. Banking and Currency. Bryan of Chatham, chairman ; Hauser, Crump ler, Ormsley, Cox, Adams, MeKenzie. The Senate did nothing but hear the Governor's message. THIRD DAY. Senate. The rules of 1895 were adopted with the amendment that after this session of the legislature seats of senators be drawn for as prescribed by the rules of the national house of repre sentativesreferred to the committee on rules. Senator Grant submitted the names tor several standing committees as adopted by the republicans and popu lists, stating that there were vacancies left open to be filled by the democrats at some future date. The joint resolution on Cuba was re ceived from the house and referred to the committee' on federal relations: Senator McCasky introduced a bill providing for counting the votes cast at the last election for state offiicers and carrying out the provisions ol article 3 of tho constitution referred to the ju diciary committee. CONTINUED ON SECOND PAGE. J weal: ABOUT SPAIN. GEANDEE SPIEIT, COLONIAL POLICY AND AGRICULTURE. 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 found week by week m the columns of this paper only, as we have made ar rangements with the author for their exclusive publication.) Allow me to cantinue and conclude a necessarily brief consideration of Spain as a decajing nation. In last week's "Thoughts", the assertion was practically made that a nation must have some ideal before it beyond the forcing of a creed or tne piling of wealth. In both of these directions Spain has been at fault. Three further enervating causes have been at work undermining its national strength. The Gsandee Spirit : For centuries after the destruction of the Roman Empire by the Goths and Vandals, the human intellect was almost benumbed. Until the Renaissance and the Reform ation a pall of darkness was over all ; the nobles being almost as untrained as their serts, and the serls being utter ly crushed by those of .nobler blood. Humanity in Europe lay like a giant chilled by the cold. But since that time stimulation oi thought has caused the great heart of the world to throb witbrincreasing power, till the life of a common humanity thrills, in large measure, even those most separated by birth and wealth. Each age has had peculiar characteristics ; ours is the "People's Age." But against the ten dency of the people to think and act, hope and accomplish, the proud and stubborn spirit of Spanish grandeeism has stood forth with fierceness. Yet just as Canute by his word could not hold the sea in subjection nor Mrs. Partington sweep back the waves with her broom, so no dynasty or power, even hoar with age and crusted with heroic deeds, can withstand successfully, by narrow-minded repression, the rising tide of human aspiration. If it turn a deaf ear to the cry of the poor for life nd libertj-, for education, for hope, the cry will not die out but its pleading tone will be turned in the fierce and fateful growl of a cornered beast. Thus has it been with Spain. Far more oi- ganized and dangerous than Nihilism in Russia, is Anarchism in Spain. The Kingdom is so thoroughly honey-comb ed with the sentiment of a lawless breaking down of the government, that the men in power try constantly to divert public thought from home affairs, and are glad of Anything in foreign lands that will form a safe outlet for the combative spirit. They are under the hopeless necessity of watching and guarding against the home population as thoroughly as they would have to watch an invading army. I believe I am safe in saying, not even excepting Russia, that no other nation in Europe but Spain is in this anomalous condi tion. It stands revealed before the world as a nation that has not controll ed the growth of hope and thought, but withstood it instead ; with the eneyita- ble disaster coming nearer every day. Colonial Policy : 1 fear if we look back at the conquests of three or lour centuries ago, when constant tidings ot new continents, wealth, etc., tired men's adventurous souls, the skirts of no na tion will be found entirely free from innocent blood. With a few notable exceptions, in spots, like Rhode Island under Williams, Pennsylvania under Pennr and Maryland under Calvert, cruelty and illiberality have almost uni versally accompanied the work of estab lishing a new colony. But gentler times have brought gentler methods; and various nations seem now to vie with each other in the liberality and excellence of their colonial policies. Take England for instance. Its illiberal treatment of its most valuable posses sion, now the United States, has entire ly passed away ; so that at the present it is practically true that many small possessions in various parts are better ruled, bettor prospered, and stronger as dependencies than they would be as separate and independent governments The policy of England and other nations who try to rival her in colonizingactiv ity, is to look only for indirect results from good government. Internal de velopment is aimed at with the confi dent hope that the resulting prosperity will react favorably to the home coun try by reason of increasing trade, etc. But Spain's policy has remained un changed while other nations have marched onward. Her colonies have always been regarded as fair prey to be stripped, of everything valuable that was compact and transportable. The rrVTTTF H , SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Jx.oo. NO. 4. fierce greed of Cortez and Pizarro Is apparently unchanged. Whatever po sitions of power were open for filling, have seemed to be regarded as the right ful heritage of the Spanish nobility without any regard as to fitness, or the benefit of the country they ruled oyer. Indirect gam from the develop menl of a colony has never been regarded with such favor as the direct results by squeezing out taxes and farming out productive positions. This is simply another evidence ol the mad spirit of self-destruction that has possessed Spain. The enevitable result has been the loss one by one since the end of last century of the very jewels of her diadem of empire. Agricultural Uupeogressiveness : About the beginning of the I6th centu ry Spain possessed a religious fury very adroitly mingled with greed, expelled the Jews and Moors and conficated their property. By so doing it inflicted as severe a national injury to itself as France did when it drove out the Huge nots, stripping itself of its best farmers and mechanics, tradesmen and mer chants. In 1609, if my memory serves me right, Spain gave a further fatal blow to itself by expelling all the Chris tianized Moors. As a result up to the present, agriculture, the necessary basis of national prosperity, is very undevel oped. The most primitive instruments are still in use and great regions that the Moors had made productive have fallen back to wildness. Similar short sightedness characterized her abroad. When Pizarro landed in Peru the strip of land fifty and more miles wide stretch ing from the ocean front to the foot hills of the Andes, supported a prosper ous population oi about 700,000. The patient Peruvians had made this sandy desert blossom like the rose by vast ir rigation works. In some cases they had constructed aqueducts hundreds of miles long and eyen pierced mountains in order that this particular region might be watered. Now the desert is again triumphant. The conquerors seeking those things alone that could be gained by the sword, neglected the real essen tials of prosperity, until now only a few thousand exist where hundreds of thou sands were once prosperous. The same lamentable neglect was shown in Mexi co. 'The strange creatures whom Mon tezuma ruled were exceedingly progres sive in the5r way. But their works and plans and agricultural gains were scat tered to the winds by their blood-thirsty conquerors. Now the spiritless Peon seems sunken beyond all hope of revival. Tree Pills. Send your address te II. E. Bucklen fr Co., Chicago, aod get a free sample box of Dr. King's New Life Pills. A trial will convice you of their merits. These pills are easy in action and are particularly effective in the cure of Constipation and Sick headache. For Malaria and Liver troubles they have been proved invaluable. They are guararteed to fee perfectly free from ev ery deleterious substance and to be purely vegetable. 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