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WHITEHEAD, DENTAL I Surgeon, ff?T ... :r 'fSW' Taeboro, N. C. SCOTLAND NECK STEAM DYE WORKS Mourning Goods a Specialty Get price list. Address Scotland Neck Steam Dyeing Co. 1-24-lv Scotland Neck N. C BRICK ! HAVING INCREASED MY FACIL ITIES I AM NOW PREPARED TO FURNISH DOUBLE QUANTITY OF BRICK, v Also will take contract to furnish lots irom 50,000 or more anywhere within oO miles of Scotland Neck Can always furnish what, you want. Correspond ence and orders solicited. D. A. E2ADDH.Y, 1-10-95-ly Scotland Neck, N. C. mention this paper. We will keep constantly on hand a good assortment of Horses and Mules, SUITABLE FOR ALL PURPOSES. .All at Low Prices. Call on us before buying and save r u money. Biggs & Join. ticoTLAHD Neck, N. 0. : lHtf E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. vol.: New Series Vol. 1. THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS. Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. Mr. Grant Brambel of Sleepy Eye, Minn., has not been very sleepy-eyed himself. While working aa telegraph operator, surveyor and man of-all-work generally, he kept working on an Idea of a rotary engine. He finally succeed ed after years of patient toil, and he has sold his patent for $6,700,000. Chauncey Depew once said that a man with a million dollars could have every tning he wanted that this world fur nishes ; so this once poor inventor can have seven times as much. He can do great good with his money and have a good time as well. I The greatest social . event that New York has ever chronicled was the gieat Bradley Martin ball in the Waldorf hotel a few nights ago. It was the swellest" tning on record in America There were 700 guests, and the news paper accounts of the occasion almost make one's head swim. A "rope of diamonds," for instance, is the way Mrs. Bradlej' Martin's jewelry was described. And all thisperhaps within vo'ce-call of keenest suffering of the worthy poor. It would take an X-ray a thousand times intensified to discover any good that ball did for Humanity. The announcing of the Presidential vote is quite a formal affair. The peo ple of the United States voted for Pres ident ana vice-President on 3rd of last November but the official count was not finally finished up until Wednesday, Feb. 10th. The Washington correspondent to the Richmond Dispatch says the pro ceedings occupied 56 minutes. Vice- President Stevenson announced the result oi the count which was had in the House, the Senate being present in a body. It was that Mr. McKinley had received 271 votes for President, and Mr. Bryan 176 ; that Mr. Hobart had received 271 votes for Vice-President : Mr. Sewall 149, and Mr. Watson 27. It was stated tnat tnis was a sufficient declaration in law of. the election of Messrs. Mckinley and Hobart for the term stated as President and vice-Pres ident, respectively. It is so seldom that public men now- a-days subordinate their own personal interest to that of their constituency that a case of the kind calls forth com ment. Senator Peffer of Kansas seems to have made a record that entitles him to be considered an exception to the rule. The Bi blicr.l Recorder makes the following complimentary comments on his course : "William A. Peffer. of Kansas, has served his term in the United States Senate, and has been humiiiatingly de feated by his own party for re-election. His career and his defeat carry a lesson. In the Senate no man has been held so constantly before the public gaze. We have followed him closely. It Is not our purpose to approve any of his acts, or disapprove any ; but we desire to say that Peffer as Senator approached more nearly the ideal representative of his party than any other man. No man has ever more fathfully or more per sistently served a party than he ; no man has ever, in cur knowledge, shown such an insight Into, and sympathy with, the principles of a party as he. In a hopeless minority he has courage ously introduced hundreds of bills, and hopefully delivered hundreds of speech es, every line of which were in perfect accord with the principles and the genius of the principles upon which he was sent to the Senate. He failed, but it was no fault of his. His public life is blameless. No taint has touched him, no suspicion attaches to him; In his seat constantly, ever watchful, ever zealous, patient under abuse, dignified under ridicule, unselfish to the end ; he was nevertheless defeated by the same party that elected him. Even when the contest was going on, and he might have saved himself (as others did) by going back home and working for him self, he composedly kept at bis post, regardless of his own ambition. We say we do not endorse Peffer. We do not endorse his principles ; but we do most earnestly commend his zeal in sustaining his principles, his faithful ness in what he thought was right, and his conduct as a man. He was de feated because polities is a game in which the chances are to the sbliest office-seekers, and against the nful servants." Commonw: SCOTLAND TRUE EDUCATION. ABOUT THE CHILD-MIND. Some Rambling Thoughts. BY "NEMO." (Copyrighted.) Once upon a ' time a certain silver smith (Acts 19.2441) gathered around dim a mob, and for several hours all cried out "Great is Diana of the Ephe- sians." The silversmith had most ex cellent reason for the agitation, since by belief in Diana he made his living. As tor the rest, most of them "knew uot wherefore they had come together, but they shouted just the same. That mob (not Demetrius himself) has al ways stood forth as an example of blind devotion. - - Have we in our day experience with such a gathering? I must answer yery carefully, or possibly a later Demetrius may be affronted. For fifty years or morerwe have heard a swelling cry that has echoed and re-echoed through the land, "Great is Education in the public schools." And by a sort of mental in fection the cry has been taken tip by all who heard until "Education ! Edu cation ! ! Education ! ! !" greets the ear on every side. Now 1 reckon there were some Ephesians who worshipped Diana in sincerity and in truth. They actually gained strength from - the wholesome myths that had gathered around her, and their shout, therefore, meant something far more spiritual than did the rest of the clamor : much of it was for "business". "So I believe that "Education" on the tongue of growing numbers who look deep down into the conditions of life, means all that is helpful and hopeful in the race. But with the great swaying, shouting multitude, it begins and ends with par rot-like book knowledge : it is against this very common view of the subject that these lines are directed. 1 As there are myriads of homes, each, more or less wisely or mistakenly, solic- tous regarding the welfare and the career of one or more children, perhaps in this column we may profitably dwell for a while on some phases of education that are much overlooked. Further more as these children will be the young people of the next century, a right idea of education will be just as profitable a preparation for the opportunities of the new age, as will be the massing and unification of reform forces that I have dwelt upon for the past weens. The question to answer to yourself at the outset is "What is the child mind ?" Some things it is certainly not, and by disposing of the negatives, the positive purpose of education becomes clearer. It, the child mind, is not alone a sheet of paper to be written on at will nor a gaping cistern to be filled to repletion, nor a plastic substance to be moulded just as you choose, nor an animal to be taught to act without reflection, nor a mere machine to be set going and kept going for the purpose of earning a liv ing until death puts an end to need. In some ways it partakes of the nature of all these figures of speech. But more than all, it is like an uncultivated territory to which man, the saviour, comes. Absolutely beyond his control is the original outline of that land. Its rivers, its hills and its valleys were there before ever it came into his pos session, it the owner has wisdom, however, he carefully studies every portion and decides on the treatment needed to get the greatest possible good from the land at bis disposal. He drains the lowlands and makes them produce. He removes the great boul ders left by glaciers of former ages. He diverts a stream and makes even dry, poor soil surrender things that are good. Furthermore, bear in mind, that what ever he puts into his fields by way of fertilizer or of seed is of no profit at all if it retains the condition or the form in which he distributed it. The soil it is in must act upon it, taking from the fertilizer or giving up to the seed ; and therein is the wisdom of the husband man shown in suiting his efforts to the character of the ground and then leav ing light and air, roil and moisture, things he never made and never can make, to do their unobserved. work by day and by night. One other point, and we will turn to the application of this somewhat lengthy similitude: Each of all the tracts of land in your town calls for different attention. Every farmer reader of these lines will say "Amen" to that. Thus it is with the child mind. Fond mother, bending over your dull- eyed babe for the first look of recogni tion, though that child is yours in a wonderful sense, bone of your bone and flesh of your flesh, yet after all physical ly and mentally, it is nothing but a - - gathering into living form of Inheritan "EXCELSIORS IS OUR MOTTO. NECK, N. C THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, ces of body and of mind that have come down through generations. Its later life may convince you even that in borne instances those gifts from earlier ages reach back to the days of sayagery. It is for you and the teacher to operate upon conditions as you find them Each child in a family has peculiarities of its own. Each little creature calls for individual consideration, just as with each of all the farms in your town. If the attempt is made to treat all alike in training and in control, the result is disastrous and cruel, i This one needs to be urged to self assurance ; that one to be held in check ; hare perfect frank ness must be used to counteract a lying tendency ; there a little effort made to set a too confiding nature on its guard. Your failure to recognize all this means danger to the child and demonstrates your unfitness for training, I know it will be said that it is fear fully difficult to give this close personal attention to each one. Certainly it is. So is it much more difficult to clear a piece of land than to leaye it alone, but the farmer goes to work with a hope of gain and the teacher and parent should be actuated by the same motiye. But the gain in the latter case is infinitely above merely material profit. It repre sents the removal of bad tendencies and the planting of grand purposes that after being absorbed into the being of the child shall be transmitted to gene rations yet unborn, but over whose fate your influence shall have been exerted. Is not that reward enough ? Go back to the "uncultivated terri tory" for a moment : if man neglects the swamps, they poison him ; if he makes no clearings, he starves. We have but opened the subject. Education in England. Philadelphia Record. Graham Wallas ended a course ol University extension lectures on "The History and Character of English Institutions" yesterday afternoon in Association Hall, when he addressed his class upon "Education." Popular English education, he said, began with this century. In the last century class ines were closely drawn between land owners and country gentry, who were determined that no change should take place in the Government, and those who believed in equal rights for all. The difficulty was to resolve the dif ferences between the two classes with out a civil war. The working men would not establish schools for them selves, and Parliament would not pass bills authorizing or providing for popular education. Fortunately, there were some men of leisure who were well educated and who were willing to devote themselves to teaching others. The majority.of these were Quakers, and-John Lancaster, a poor but educat ed carpenter, was one of the first of that sect to embark in the work. He opened his father's shop as a school for poor children, and enlisted the sympa thies and support of such influential Quakers as Fox, Foster and Allen. In 1832 the Reform bill practically re volutionized the Government, and in 1839 Parliament unbent sufficiently to appropriate $150,000 to educational purposes. The problem of education was taken up seriously by every En glishman during the middle Victorian age, and gradually a system had grown up which, although imperfect in many respects, at least proyided schooling for every child in England. The feeling had entirely died away that compulsory education was un-English, and colleges were springing up in many of the English cities. Scholarships had been created for the benefit of. bright boys and girls whose parents could not support them until they received thelreducation, and technical "education was carefully fostered by the various cities. Watch the 'crowd at Whitehead's Drue store buying Dixie Nerve and Bone Liniment. Be3t on earth for Pains, Strains, Rheumatism and every thing where a first class Liniment is required. For man and beast. There is Nothing so Good. There is nothing just so good as Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption Coughs and Colds, so demand it and do not permit the dealer to sell you some substitute. He will not claim there is anything better, but m order to make more profit he may claim something else to be just as good. You want Dr. King's New Discovery because you know it to be safe and reliable, and guaranteed to do good or money refund ed. For Coughs, Colds, Consumption and for all affections of Throat, Chest and Lungs, there is nothing so good as is Dr. King's New Discovery. Trial bottles free at E. T. Whitehead & Co.'s Drug Store. Regular size 50 and f 1.00. THE LEGISLATURE. A CONDENSED REPORT OF 'What the Law-makers are Doing. From Wilmington Messenger. THIRTIETH DAY TUESDAY, FEB. 9TH. Senate. Bills and resolutions were introduced as follows : By Senator Clark, to regulate the sale of animal food. By Senator Walker, to improve the public schools of the state. By Senator Person, to prevent hiring of convicts in competition with free labor ; also to pension all ex-slaves who did service in the Confederacy. By Senator Ernhardt, to regulate fees of sheriffs and registers of deeds ; also to regulate the practice of medicine in the state. By Senator Scales, to incorporate the Grand Lodge. Knights of Pythias, of the domain oi North Carolina. By Senator McNeill, instructing the state treasurer to report whether there are any unpaid construction bonds of the Raleigh and .Gaston railway re maining in his office. Senator Clark rose to a question of personal pri rilege as to the statement made by Swinson, enrolling clerk, re garding newspaper correspondents, and moved that a committee of three be appointed by the president to investi gate the charges made by Swinson. This was adopted and Senators Clark, McCarthy and Parker of Alamance, were appointed the committee. Said charges are that $1,500 had been paid out during the first thirty days of the egislature when $6 would have been sufficient to pay for the work done, and also that officers of the general assem bly were trying to force upon him two negro clerks. " The resolution requesting the treas urer to furnish lniormation whether the penitentiary is self-sustaing was adopted. ' " The bill to regulate the procuring and distribution of dead bodies for pro motion of medical science caused a de bate. Senator Person, colored, offered the following amendment : "Provided this shall only apply to bodies having no claimants and to prisoners in the pen itentiary." Senator Alexander favored the bill. Senator Rollins said he introduced the bill at the request of-a professor at the university. This state was woe fully behind other states and if some thing was not done to furnish medical colleges with subjects for dissection they would have to close. Senator McCaskey offered the amend ment : "Strike out all that applies to county homes, hospitals and jails." On motion, the whole matter went over until tomorrow. House. Among the bills introduced were the following : By Mr. White, to repeal the act to establish a true meridian in the state for correct retracing of surveys. By Mr. Eddings, to require deeds in trusts and mortgages to be canceled by record within ten days after they have been paid. By Mr. Pool, to appropriate $2,000 annually to the colored normal school at Elizabeth City. By Mr. Dockery, to amend the law regarding analysis of fertilizers, by providing that if the analysis shows presence of hair, hoof, meat horn, eather scraps, marl or other deleterious materials, publication shall be duly made and such fraudulent fertilizers shall be seized and condemned. The bill to make it indictable to in terrupt a public speaker came up and caused a lively debate. The text of the bill was : "Any person who shall wil- iilly interrupt or disturb any political meeting, lawfully assembled shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con viction shall be fined not exceeding $50 or imprisonment not more than thirty days." Mr. Cook's amendment, adopted two weeks ago, was that the act shall also apply to all public speakers and stage actors. Mr. Ransom's amendment, adopted at the same time was by making it a misdemeanor for political speakers to use any profane or vulgar language in any public soeech. The bill was referred to the judiciary committee, which, January 29th, rec ommended that the original bill with out amendments do pass. Mr. Blackburn made a motion to strike out all the amendments. He called the previous question. The vote on Mr. Blackburn's amendment was yeas, 54 ; nays, 39. The bill passed its third reading, democrats voting solid and Ward, Brown and Abernatby, populists, vot ing with them. THIRTY-FIRST DAY WEDNESDAY, FEB. 10tH. Sesate. A resolution was introduc ed by Senator Alexander that a joint EABTE SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $i.oo. 1897. NO. 9 committee of seven visit Charlotte, and examine tho public roads in Mecklen burg county, so as to improve the pub lic road laws of North Carolina. Bills were introduced as follows : By Senator Butler, to revise and im prove the public . school system (500 copies ordered printed). By Senator Ashburn, to regulate the sale of fertilizer. By Senator Person, to compel em ployers and corporations to pay em ployes every week, where they hire them with the understanding to pay weekly. - . By Senator Henderson, to enlarge the powers of the railroad commission House. Among the bills introduced were the following : By Mr. Hartness, to provide that in case of suit fordamages brought against a person resident of another state who has property in this state it can be at tached where there are unliquidated damages. By Mr. Arrington, to proyide for a ferry across Roanoke river at Halifax. By Mr. McCrary, to create a short form of agricultural liens in North Car olina, allowing a creditor to sell enough of property at public auction after twenty days notice to cover debt and interest. A report from the special committee on bill regarding lease of the North Carolina railway was made, offering a substitute for the original bill, asking that it be adopted as the bill and that it be printed and be made the special order for next Friday. Mr. Blackburn protested this was too short a time. Mr. Cook then moved that the bill be made the special order for noon next Tuesday and it was so ordered. At noon the house took up as a spe cial order the bill introduced by Mr. Hancock to "Restore to the State the Management and Control of the At lantic and North Carolina Railroad." There was quite a lengthy discus sion. The bill passed its second reading 75 to 23, and also passed its third read ing. Mr. Crumpler introduced a bill to re vise the public school system. It creates a state board of education out of the governor, presidents of the uni versity and state normal and indus trial school and three professional teachers to be elected biennally by all the members of the board, the board to recommend the course of study in the public schools and the course of read ing, a professional study for teachers, to grant first grade certificates. The office of county examiner is abolished after the first Monday in next July. County commissioners, clerk and reg ister shall biennially elect three men of good business qualifications as a coun ty board-of education and the latter biennially elect county supervisors of schools, also district boards of five to apportion the school fund, and to es tablish schools. The third grade teach- m s a 1 1 , era certificates are to be aoonsned and the county supervisor is to be paid not over $3 for each day actually at work. THIRTY-SECOND DAY THURSDAY, FEB. llTH. Senate. Bills and resolutions were introduced as follows : By Senator Clark, to incorporate the Bans of Enfield. By Senator Yeager, authorizing the governor to furnisn convicts to work certain roads and cut canals in Wash ington county. By Senator Scales, relating to per sonal property ; makes it a misdemean or for persons to go to a store and get goods to look at and not return or pay Ur them. At the night session the bill was tak en up to prohibit the use of free passes by officers. Senator Butler favored the bill, say ing every two men who rode on a rail road paid the fare of another person, who rode on a free pass ; that men who use free passes are always men who are amply able to pay their fares. Senator Ray offered a substitute that all railroads in the state shall furnish to each state officer free passes good during his term of office. The substitute was lost ayes, 16; noes, 22. The bill passed its second reading ayes, 21 ; noes, 19. Senator Clark, chairman of the spe cial committee (o investigate Swinson's statement in regard to the enrolling clerk's office, sent forward the report of the committee, that Swinson said he did not make the statements as they appeared in the newspapers, but that be did say no negro should work in his office as long as he had charge of it, because he expected-towards the end of the session to have lady copyists and that he did not propose to have him self pointed out as a populi6t that had negro assistants ; that he did say it had cost $50 a day to run his office ; that while he did not. have use for the as sistants, they were put there by two political caucuses and be did not feel disposed to discbarge them. CONTTSUEb ON SECOND FAGEl IF YOU ARE HUSTLER YOU WILL -! ADVERTISE YOUB Business. o Send Yocr"Advertisement in Now. English Spavin Liniment removes all Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and and Clemishes from horses. 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