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Iir".,.V!.-. 9L ADVE&TISING IS TO BUSINESS., -WHAT STEAM IS TO- Machinery, That Gee at Propelling Power. THAT CLASS OF READERS THAT YOTT Wish your Advertisement TO REACH is the class who read this paper: PE0FESSIO1TAL. n R. A. C. LIVERMON, u &S? Si3 s.s sa C'.iv Xsf KS OFFicEOvcr the Staton Building. fmm 9 to 1 o'clock : 2 to iJillle 1 o'clock, p. m. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. AVID BELL, Attorney at Law, ENFIELD, N. C. T,f;, in all the Courts of Hal f ,v md "jidioinin? counties and in the 7: ' aA FP-lpral Courts. . Claims collected in fill parts of the State. W A. DUNN, in rf l' ft i I'j J.J J.AJ -fJ w i -r-k t.t ' m 't I j i w. Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices wherever his services featured. are W. J. Si goon Dentist, ENFIELD, X. C. Office over Harrison's DriiP Store. E DWABD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counsellor at Lair, HALIFAX, X. C. Jo)!"? Loaned on Iann Lands. OWARD ALSTON, Attorn ey-at-La w, LITTLETON, X. C. hR. C. A. WHITEHEAD, ENTAL Takboro, X. C. SCOTLAND NECK STEO DTE WORKS -'Iot.-rxixg Goods a Specialty Get price list. Address Scotland Neck Steam Dyeing Co. 1-21-lv Scotland Neck X. C HAVING INCREASED MY FACIL ITIES 1 AM XOW PREPARED TO FURNISH DOUBLE QUANTITY OF AiHO will take contract to i3M"rnish lots irom 50,000 Lzj or more anywhere within IN? 50 miles of Scotland Neck C:in always yu want. turmsh what Correwnd-jB en.-a and orter.-i solicited. l-HWS-ly Scotland Neck, X. C. MEXHOrT THI3 PAPEK. PTINSTALL, FNF1ELD, N C. "rfWSlKiB'.iUi. . G-snerai Butcher And Dealer in Fresh Uptcnf l-inda 0RDFJfa lfnri'n Tr-rTTrT at "u uauvered to any point in the PATRONAGE SOLICITED, 3 11 tf OV ER FIFTY YEARS ho:: btumg Byrup has :::. io.r ovor fiy yeaw bV m;i tbcrchiulren while "oother1'?:,,1"6" succes8- Ifc all-v. Boitena the gums, the C. ,'lin cures wind collie, and is MP-TtC dj Ior diarrhoea. It will diatelv s ill , s,merer lrame w, :V.,So,d ' Druggists in" everv bo tie vn WOrW- Twen'y-ftve cents a . . Bll, u ask for -'Mr. E- W. Hi w4 if ip: iiiif pi?;. T n E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XIII. New Series Vol. i. THE EDITOB'3 LEISURE EOUES. Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. we hold that the world is getting better ; but we sometimes observe tend encies in some localities that make us conclude that tne improvement is m spots. Occasionally one reads of certain crimes, or hears and sees such absolute disregard for morality and decency, that it takes pretty strong faith in tne doc trine of the survival of the fittest to be able to beiievo tne world is improving, There are four thousand teachers and two hundred and fifty-six principals of schools in New York City. The ele vator boys get better pay than the teachers, tbe teachers getting lrom $408 to $504 the first and second years, and the elevator boys receiving $500, $600 to $700. At the end ot fourteen years tne teacher receives ipou, -which is $150 less than the cleaners in the county jail. TheY. M. C. A. of Philadelphia sticks to the literal meaning ot the Bible text which tells of the whale swallowing Jonah. Dr. Lyman Abbott of Xew York has expressed his unbelief in the storv, and recently when he ent to Philadelphia to lecture before the Y. M. C. A. he found the doors losed against him. The Y. M. C. A. believes the Bible and Dr. Abbott's denial of the whale swallowing Jonah gave them the impression that he does not accept it fully and so they did not hear his lecture. Perhaps this country has never heard mum insiuueiB piuiuiooa wau uuiiug the past two years. Tbere was a great battle between tbe two. great political parties last year as to national interests, neither one oi which could have possi bly kept them all. In North Carolina there were many promises made the ''dear people" by the fnsionists, and the time has come and gone for the work of the Legislature and the "dear peo ple" are much worse off than ever. We hear the cry of hard times everywhere, and we wonder why ; but we ought net the Bible says that when the wicked rule the people mourn. And who are the wicked if liars are not? The expenses of the Government are enormous and seem to De growing an the while. A Des Moines paper, The Leader, gives the following figures as to per capita expenses : We have not only added immensely to the bulk oi our Government expend itures, but the per capita expense ol the Government has been outrageously increased. In 1800 it was $1.3U; in 1810 it was only 75 cents ; m 1820 it was $1.30; in 1830, $101; in" 1840, $1.51 ; in 1850, $1.60 ; in 1860, $1.91 ; in 1870, as a result of payments on the war debt, $4.25 ; in 1880, $3.39; m 1890, $5.14 ; in 1895, $5.48. It is esti mated that the permanent and special appropriations made by the Fiftj'-fourt h Congress during its first session will entail an expenditure of $515,845,194 For the fiscal year ending J une 30, 1897. Taking the present population at 72,000,000, this is a tax of $7.15 nvnrv man. woman and child in for the United States. Yet, in spite of this showing, Con gress has been called in special session. not to devise .ways for reducing Gov ernment expenditures, but to provide for the levying of new taxes. With I the new revenues provided, it would not be surprising if the present Con- grees should order expenditures of $1,200,000,000, or nearly as much to be spent in two years as it cost the Gov- pmmfint to exist during tbe first fifty years of national life. One of the answers to what causes hard times is found in the Goyernment expense account. For tbe support of the National Government alone, to say nothing of State, county and municipal government, abont one-tenth of the entire annual wealth production is re quired. BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE. The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup tions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or roonny refnnced: Price 25 cents per box. For sale by E. T. WHITEHEAD & CO. Com SCOTLAND THE CAPTURED HESSIAN- A STORY OF REVOLUTIONARY SAYS. What Two Lads Accomplished. Youth's Companion. In one of the most beautiful parts of the valley of the Brandvwine not far from where the historic stream curves around the bold bluff of Point Lookout, there stood in .Revolutionary days, and still stands, a farmhouse of the good oM colonial type. The blue smoke curling upward from its wide chim neys seemed always to savor of the good cheer within, and "oyer its spread ing roof the branches of great maples hung. At one side was the orchard, and by its edge wound the lane, to join the road beyond. une day in Uctober, HU, the au tumn sunbeams silting down through ihe leaves ot the maples flickered upon the early heads and homespun clothes of two boys, who, seated on the great stepping-stone in front of the door, were busily digging in the dust with their bare toes. They were brothers, and their father, whose name, with the date 1700, -was cut on the stone beneath them was a Quaker of the strictest type. As this was Fifth-day, he had ridden off, with his wife behind him, to Ber- mingham meeting-house, a few miles up the valley, in spite of the danger from roving bands from the British army. The boys were left at home, for the father judged them safer there especially as a body of Continentals were encamped by the stream below the house. Suddenly David, the elder boy, drop ped a walnut-bur on his brother's toe then, jumping behind a tree to protect his own feet, he shouted, "Let's feed our chickens. I'll race thee to the barn." In a moment two pairs of brown lege were twinkling in the sunlight as their owners spurted toward the great stone barn, hidden from the house by the grove ot maples. Past the corn-crib they raced and up the slope to where the great barn doors stood wide open, letting in a flood of sunshine on the hay strewn floor. It was still quite early in the day. They had reached the threshold near ly abreast when both lads stopped short and stood amazed. Well they might be, tor, on a pile of hay just within the doors, lay a redcoat, a Hessian cap tain, judging from his long boots and hie uniform, sleeping heayily, with his sword and pistols lying beside him. With one impulse the boys turned and ran, never stopping until they were safe behind the corn-crib, out of sight of the redcoat, should he awake. What could a British soldier be doing in their barn? There could be but one explanation : lie must De tne ieader of a night-foraging party ; he must have lain down in the barn for a n?p while his men went about the neighborhood. They must have struck the American camp and been driven across the Brandy wine, away from their sleeping captain. That would explain the firing which the boys had heard in the night. They could not allow a Hessian to sleep in their barn, especially as they had seen some of their pet chickens with twisted necks lying beside him, ready to bo carrted off. What should they do? If they went to tbe Continental camp for aid, he might awake while they were gone and escape with tbe chickens. Young as they were they readily imagined that he would burn the barn, and even the bouse itself, if there -were time, for they never reflected that he would be exceedingly careful to do nothing like- j Iy to attract notice from the Continent als. "Ezra," said David, "we must get his sword and pistols, and then force him to go down to the camp. It is the only way. Little Ezra tremblea at the audacity of this proposition, but both felt the Ciise was desperate, and nerved by this they crept stealthily back, until they could again look on the sleeping ene my Then David, angered by the sight of the murdered fowls, eoftly stole the pistols and the sword away from the sleeper's side. He gave a pistol to Ezra, who immediately got as far away from the hand which held it as possi hl. and keot the sword and the other pistol for himself. At this juncture the prostrate soldier snored, and the boys, as if pulled by a string, scampered backward out of the barn. David, tripping over the sword, fell spralling down one side of the in cline, while Ezra rolled down the oth er. But nothing threatening followed, and after cautiously regaining their weapons, they held a council of war and decided upon a plan oi action. Again the boys crept softly through the door, and while David hid himself behind some shocks of corn within the ' . . ' MONWEAj "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1897. 8hadow of the corner' Ezra climbed to I tne haymow, having nrst, to his great relief, hidden his pistol among the corn He carried with him, instead, a sack half filled with grain. . Ezra, having reached his post, irom which he could slip out of sight in an instant, overturned his load, and a cat aract of golden wheat, descended upon the unprotected face of the soldier. In an instant he was awake. Con fused and blinded by the shower, he sprang to his feet, groping vainly for his weapons. In a moment he would have been out and away, but David's voice rang out, sounding muffled by the corn, like a man's : "If thee moves, I will shoot thee.' The captain stop ped, irresolute. "If thee looks behind thee, or tries to escape, I will shoot thee through the heart. Thee must do just as I tell thee to do. Go out of the door and follow the path to the left. and mind thee doesen't look behind thee !" David stopped startled at his own boldness. The Hessian, sullenly obeying, stalk ed out into the sunlight, followed bv David, the sword striking against his bare legs at every step. Ezra slipped down from the mow, regaining, not very joyfully, his pistol and came on behind. - The redcoat felt sure that the myste rious command must be obeyed. Once before he had heard that Quaker "thee" and the memory was most clear if not most pleasant. When first brought to England from his German home, he bad, when given over to ale and ale filled companions, tried to break up one of the peaceful meetings of some Quakers. He bad a vivid recollection of a young man in a collarless coat, who following him out of the little meeting-house, had said, "Although it is to the great hurt of my soul, it may be to the betterment of thine, therefore I shall try to drive Satan out of thee," and had thereupon given him such a thrashing that it hurt him yet to think of it. With many muttered oaths and spec ulations as to who his captors could be, the Hessian strode along, making no effort to escape, for he beard the clink of the sword, and where it was he felt the pistols must be also. A strange and most ludicrous picture the trio presented, as they marched one after another down the path toward the river, over the fields where the shocks of corn stood in tbe golden October iunehine, and the pumpkins lay chang ing from green to yellow. Down through the rich meadows, shaded here and there by great oaks and tulip-trees, they marched, and through tbe epice- wood thickets close by the waterside. At last they emerged from the bush- i - s into an open grove, Desme wnicn rippled the Brandywine-. Scattered un der the trees were the white tents and the nondescript lean-to's of the Conti nentals' camp. Xo soonet-was the queer procession seen than it was surrounded by a laugh- ing, cheering crowd4 of soldiers, for dis cipline was not strict in those days, and the merriment was redoubled when the Hessian, daring at last to look around, went wild with rage and chagrin upon discovering the size of his captors. But David and Ezra were on their dignity, and without a smile they brought the prisoner up to where the gray-haired colonel stood, drawn from his tent by the commotion. David tbere called out, just as he had heard the soldiers do, "Halt, prisoner ! Atten tion !" He- then brought the great sword to his shoulder, and saluted with the pistol, Ezra following suit. "What is this, boys?" said the col onel, with a kindly smile. "Have you been raiding King George's camp, and brought back a prisoner?" "No," answered David, "but, thee . 1 T 1 I I sees, this soiaier was sleeping iu uur barn, and had killed our chickens, and probably meant to do more, so we got his sword and pistols, and made him come down here to thee, and " Here Ezra broke in : "Thee won't tell mother, will thee? For she would think it was lighting, and then Friend Cope would speak about us in First-day meeting." Ezra's voice was drowned by a roar of laughter from the circle of soldiers, and the colonel, smiling, promised to make it all right with their mother by g0jng home with them and telling her what biave bovs she had, if they would first honor him by taking .dinner in camp. At wnicn ids ouys were struct with pride and embarraseement in a way wonderful to see - That dinner ! Tbe boys looked back to it with pride for the rest of their lives ! How they toasted their country and Washington and the army, a'd everything else they could think of, in sweet Delware cider, and how, much to Watch the crowd at Whitehead's Drug store buying Dixie Nerve and Bone Liniment. Best on earth for Pains, Strains, Rheumatism and every- I thing where a hrst class Jbiniment is mluireu J -ra I I 1. For man and beast. their own confusion, they were toasted themselves ! But the crowning touch ot all came when the Hessian, who had recovered his spirits after a hearty meal, entered attended by his guards, and begged leave in very bad English to shake bis two captors by the hand, and asked permission to present David with the sword and Ezra with the pistols which they had held before under different circumstances, saying that thev were from "vun old soldier to two voung vuns." So he wa3 a good-hearted lies sian, after all ! That sword and those pistols, after doing even better service than before for their country in the War of 1812 now hang in an old colonial mansion on the banks of the Brandywine, aud many a youth has been inspired to true patriotism by the story of how his ancestors used them m the days gone by. - Henry S. Canby. The Tobacco Habit Selected. A recent issue of "Modern Medicine" presents some statistics from education al institutions concerning the effects of tobacco on the academic youth which point their own lesson as clearly as could the longest homil y. In 1891 the official physician of Yale University reported that in a class of 147 students he had found that in four years the 77 who did not use tobacco surpassed the 70 who did use it to the extent of 10".4 per cent, in increase in weight, 24 per cent, in increase of height and 26.7 per cent, in increase of chest girth. In the same period at Amherst College it was found that the abstainers from tobacco gained 24 per cent, in height and 42 per cent, in chest girth. But the most striking revelation from the statistics was that respecting lung capacity, the Amherst abstainers having gained 85 per cent, over tobacco users, while at Yale the average gam was 77.5 per cent. While the figures given may not be sufficiently full to warrant any large de ductions, they certainly establish the truth of the fact that the eifect of the use of tobacco is , to retard the devel opement if not to dwarf the respiratorj' system ; and the conclusion seems fair ly to follow that the tobacco habit is to be especially avoided by those who have a hereditary or acquired prone ness to diseases of a pulmatory charac ter. Music with Pins. National Recorder. Have you a cigar box, a bit of tissue paper, a paper of pins and a tack ham mer? Well, that is all you need to make a pmetta. First you take the box and nail dowb the lid, then cover the whole box with bright colored paper so that it will look pretty. Then tack the pins along the edges ot the bottom of the . box. You must be very careful m the pound ing ol the pins, for this is the difficult part of the work. Have somebody sing the soprano part of any song, note by note. Use new, straight pins and pound them in uutil they sound exactly like the sing ing, just as a violin is tuned with a piano. The deeper the pins are driven the higher the sound. If a very high note is desired small black pins are best and for bass notes large needles are best, but common pins can be used for all. A very little difference in the depth of the driving makes a great dif ference in ihe sound. Holding the box firmly in youi left hand, or better placing it on a table, you take a long pin in your right hand and run the point along the middle of the pins in the box as they stand up right, ion should rua the pin in your hand according to the time the piece is written in. The pinnetta can be made in perfect tune, played in perfect time ana has a clear, sweet gounrt like M'ater running over the stones. If you possess any musical talent you can make the ac companiment of chords on another box and have a very pretty duet. Any one can make and play a pin etta. There is Nothing so Good. Tbere is nothing just as 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 in order to make more profiit he may claim there is something 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 and Consump tion and for all affections' of Throat. Chest and .Lungs, tbere is nothing so good as is Dr. King's New Discovery, Trial bottle frea at E. T. Whitehead & Co.'s Drug Store. Regular size 50c. and $1.00. N Rosebud Tobacco is the best. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $i.oo. NO. 15 All Planters of Fine Guaranteed Ammonia - - -Available Phos. Acid Potash K 2 O From High- Grade Sulphate FOR SALE BY PAST FUTURE. The grandsire's locks in the firelight's glow; His eyes are dim, and drifts ot snow Are deeply laid on the weary head Where fell the storms of tbe years long dead. His thoughts are gleaning tbe fields of yore Th it skirt the land of the sunrise shore, Or, haply, he feels the noontide blaze That brightly burned in the by-gone days. With her golden curls on his loving breast His dear little grandchild croons at rest. And dreams of tbe castles that yet shall rise In the bright beyond, and a bright sur prise - Burns bright on her cheek, and dan ces awhile On her, cherry lips in a winsome smile. She dreams of a summer still far away, He dieams of a summer that's gone for aye. Wm. Thornton Whitsett. The Tramp Printer Didn't do a Thing to the Wocdville Blower. Atlanta Constitution. When the editor of the Woodville Blower got sick and had fo leave town lor a week, he got Randolph Horton Tucker to get out the paper. Now, Mr. Tucker was not an expert editor, but he could write nice little verses and sweet smelling society items and said be could manage the office first rate. He wanted to show a little extra enter prise, so he made a big spread on local j news and wrote up the notices for the advertisers in fine style. When his copy was all in he went home light hearted and happy. But alas and alack ! Tbe tramp printer who was the foreman, printer and pressman and who had not been fully sober for a month, got the news and business notices all mixed in mak ing up, and when the Blower appeared items like the following greeted the as. tonished citizens : Go to Smith 'sfortresh Jersey butter. Guaranteed to be strictly all wool." Stubbs & Tubbs dealers in green bides, rags, iron, etc. Meals at all hours." "Reward of $10 will be paid for the arrest and detention ot one of the most desirable residence lots in town. When ast heard ' from, was working on a steamboat in Alabama." "Get your meals at the Snide House. Fresh steak and hash every 30 days, made ot the finest corrugated steel and warranted to last a lifetime." "Some very artistic fresco work has I just been done on the interior of Judge J Hamp Rollins, who was again elected justice ot the peace last week." The effect of this breezy issue of tbe ! Blower was such as to cause Mr. Ran dolph Tucker to abandon journalism and seek the more congenial calling of book agent in another State. Malta. Selected. Next to Gibraltar, Malta is the strongest fortress in tbe world. A fter it came into the possession of the En glish, during the Napoleonic wars, the harbor of La Valetta was defended by a system of works which are considered by competent engineers to be impreg nable against any force that can be brought to bear 'ipon them. Sid You Ever Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for your troubles? If not, get a bottle novy and get' relief. This medicine has been found to be peculiarly adapted to . the relief and cure of all Female Com plaints, exerting a wonderful direct in fluence in giving strength and tone to the organs. If you have Loss of Ap petite, Constipation, Headache, Faint ing Spells, or are Nervous,' Sleepless, Excitable. Melancholy or troubled with Dizzy Spells, Electric Bifters is the! medicine you need. Health and Strong- th are guaranteed by it use. llty cents and $1.00 at E. T. Co.'s Drug store. Whitehead & IF YOU ARE HUSTLER YOU WILL . ADVERTISE YOUK Business. Send Your Advertisement in Now. Tobacco Should use -0- Analysis : 3.00 per cent. 8.00 per cent. 3.00 percent. N. B. JOSEY, SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. English Spavin Liniment removes all Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and and Clemishes from horses. , Blood Spavin Surbs, Splints, Sweeney, Ring worm titles, Sprains, and Swollen Through, Coughs, Etc. Save 50 by use of one bottle. Warranted the most wondrful Blemism Cure ever known. Sold bo E. T. Whitehead A Co., Druggists, Scotland Neck, N. C. 10 1 It. RELIEF IN SIX HOURS. Distressing Kidney and Bladder dis eases relieved in six hours by the "New Great South American Kidney Cure." This new remedy is a great surprise on account of its exceeding promptness in relieving pain in the bladder, kidneys, back and every part of the urinary passages in male or fe male. It relieves retention of water and pain in passing it almost immedi ately. If you want quick relief and cure this is your remedy. Sold by E. T. Whitehead and Co., Drufffi'ista- Scotland Neck. N. C. Compare our Work with that of our Competitors. ESTABLISHED IX 1865. CHAS. M. WALSH. Steam Mirlle id Cranltc WORKS, Sycamore St., Petersburg, Va. Monuments, Tombs, Cemetery Curb ing, fcc. All work strictly first class and at Lowest Prices. I ALSO FURNISH IRON FENCING, VASES, &C. Designs sent to any address free. In writing for them please -give age of de ceased and limit as to price. I Prepay Freight on all Work. MENTION THIS PAPER. 3 1 ly JEWELRY SILVERWARE!!! WATCHES AND CLOCKS PUT IN PERFECT REPAIR. We have engaged the seryices of Mr. J. P. Perry, from the Chicago Watch Ma kers' Institute, wjiere 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 E. T. WHITEHEAD & CO., i 25 tf Scotland Neck, N. C. flUDSON'S ENGLISH KITCHEN, 187 Main St., NORFOLK, VA. Is the Leading Dining Room in' the City for Ladies and Gentlemen. Strict' ly a Temperance Place. All meals 25c. fJCHudson's Surpassing Coffee a Specialty. 1 16 ly Of By virtue ot the power vested In me by the last will and testament of the late P. Eliza Pittman, I will on Monday the 5th day ot April 1897, expose to . public sale to the highest bidder for cash, at the court house door in the town of Halifax, that tract or parcel of land situated in the county of Halifax ana known as the "Merritt tract," bounded on the north by Beech Swamp ; tbe lands of O. C. Stalling,! on the Fouth and east, and on the west by the tract of land of P. Eliza Pittman known as the 93 acre tract ; containing one hundred acres more or less, This 16th dy of Feb. 1897. . w. J. .burgess, Executor of P. Eliza Pittman. 2 25 6t .,-.1 i -1 1 A