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ADVESTISIN& IS TO BUSINESS -WHAT STEAM IS TO- Machinery, TV. m Commonwealth. -o That Great Tkofeu-iso Tower. E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Qiao. THAT CLASS OF READERS THAT YOD Wish your Advertisement TO REACH is the class who read this pnper. VOL. XIILtfew Scries Vol. 1. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1897. NO. 17 THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS. Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. Before Retiring.... lake Ayer's Pills, and you will bleep better and wake in better :ondition for the day's work. Ayer's Cathartic Pills have no :qual as a pleasant and effect lal remedy for constipation, )iliousness, sick headache, and ill liver troubles. They are wgar-coated, and so perfectly irepared, that they cure with lut the annoyances experienced n the use of so many of the (ills on the market. Ask your jLraggist for Ayer's Cathartic Pills. When other pills won't lelp you. Ayer's is THE FILL THAT WILL for sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co,, Scotland Neck, X. C. A. C. LIVERMON, iT5s p? -JV f? 3vft? "- m s m I pCE-Over the Staton Building. f tee hours from 9 to I o'clock ; 2 to fciock, p. m. SCOTLAND XECK, N. C. .YID CELL, Attorney at Law, ENFIELD, X. C. Vactices in nil the Courts of Kali- pud adjoining counties -and in the preme and Federal Courts. Claims Beted in all rarts of the State. A. DUNN, TTOR X E Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, X. C. ractice? wherever his services are Ured. L W. J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, EXFIELD, X. C. s over Harrison's Druf Store. MD L. TRAVIS, jtorney and Cbtmselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. Money Loaned on Farm Lands. JVARD ALSTOX, 'Attorney-at-Law, LITTLETOX, N. C. C. A. WHITEHEAD, DENTAL Surgeon, Takboeo, N. C. fWO NECK STEA3I DYE WORKS Pncelist. Address - pOTLAxo XCK Steam Dyeing Co. lv Scotland Xeck X. C RELIEF IX SIX HOURS. WretBing Tfcdney and Bladder dia. cvea in six hoars by the "Xew I0" Americas Kidney Inis new nmod,T , .. rise OU account rf J!.: totnew m relieving pain in thi t. ,. "of u mum yr ie- it relieves retention W1n m passing it almost immedi- II Vftll -nrnr, : -1 i. . . t.Ma i""316 reei and Id by R. T wi,n.i!.:j , Mm fwi J . u 811(1 ata- "coOand Neck. N. O. Since printing in our last issue some statements about Xoah Raby, the man who recently celebrated his 125th birth day in Xew Jersey, we see it stated that he ciaims to be a native of Gates county of this State. His father was an I Indian, it is said, and his mother white woman. Farmers and newspaper men have much the same experience in the bat tie-stretch ot life both are looking for something better in the immediate fu - j ture. The latest to encourage farmers is the many uses to which corn stalks may be put. Some one estimates that they will soon be worth $25 an acre We suppose everybody will sanction J the recommendations in President Mc Kinley's message to congress for relief i for the flood sufferers along the Mis sissippi. It was quick work, too. , lne I message was read and the bill passed and signed before 2 o'clock. It appropriat ed $200,000 and proper persons were sent to different districts to ascertain the I needs of the sufferers. At that time as many as seven hundred towns and vil lages had been devastated by the paralled floods. ALL TIED TOGETHER. "NO MAXT LXVZTH TO HIMSELF' NEIGHBORS, HOWEVER FAR OR CLOSE. Some Bambling Thoughts. BY NEMO. un- The following paragraph taken from the Southerner is worth reading, re- , reading and remembering : "It needs to be proclaimed from every house top and practiced by every parent and teaeheY that amid all of our noeds the cne supreme one, is better wSVk. Young man, if you have an ambition and need a world to conquer, begin heroically on yourself and make your self fit IOr something. Do some one thing well. Do it well, Avhether you , are under the eye of a master or not. Do it well if it is neA-er seen. Do it well if you get nothing for it. Put conscience into every stroke, whether the work be small or great. All work is great that is greatly done." Perhaps the attention of the people of the land has been more particularly centred on the great floods in the Mississippi and their results for the past few weeks than upon any other current event. A writer in Leslie's WeeKly says that the Government has, during the present century, appiopriat ed more dollars for the levees along the great river than there aie persons in the nation. During the past ten years forty million dollars have been appro priated, bat all the improvements made are but temporary, and experts think that it will take four hundred millions more to make a good job ot it ; and af ter that they think forty millions should be spent each year in keeping the work in repair. This is, indeed, a great drain upon the Government. When President McKinley announc ed that he would see every one who went to the White House, no matter what nis business, some thought it a very sweeping promise, xo De sure, people who know nothing of the duties that belong to the office, sometimes think that the President has little else to do than dress himself, eat the fine food that the best of caterers and cooks can prepare, ana talk to any wno may wish to see him. Such is not the case. The President is perhaps the hardest worked man in the nation. He cer tainly has rrfore responsibility than any other man; and it he faithfully meets that responsibility, it follows that he has more to engage bis time and thought than almost any other man. This those know who have made obser vation of a President's great duties; and so they at first thought Mr. Mc Kinley's promise was very broad. It is said that thus far he has kept his promise and holds up well under the strain. The secret of his ability to ac complish much with apparently little effort, is the fact that he works by sys tem everyday. Henry ward Beecher once in formed a man who came to him complaining of gloomy and despondent feelings, that what he most neened was a good cathartic, meaning, ot course, such a medicine as Ayers Cathartic Pills, . ev ery dose being effective. For sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co., Scotland Neck N.C. " v (Copyrighted.) At a moment when thousands of acres are under water, and stock and lives in great danger along the Miss issippi Valley, it is most opportune to emphasize the old-time statement that "no man. liveth to himself 1" When the pioneer ot the empire, of free-men. first swung his axe in the virgin forests of the Mississippi basin, by his strength and by fire he swept away the obstacles to planting until the land lay bare un- hderthesky. His need and his right none will .dispute. But where one led, thousands followed, each working his will independently and selfishly, as though there were no natural laws to be considered. Theresult we see. Where millions of acres were once cov ered by a spongy flooring, of leaves, and the intertwinings ot roots', all uniting to hold back the waters of the rains and of the thawing snows, open fields lie, like spendthrifts, - retaining but a fraction of the blessing showered uponr them and promptly needing more. The steadily flowing streams of the past be come now furious torrents in the spring and dry water-courses in summer. Thoughtful men declare that the only remedy lies in the gradual return of a decided portion Of the cleared land to a wooded condition, or, in other words, they preach the truth that the dweller on some remote farm, along the banks of even a minor stream has personal responsibility up$n him in relation to the welfare and happiness of the distant valley-dweller. The Mississippi is at this moment thundering out a lesson in material mutual dependence, that is proclaimed les3 audibly by weeds, in sect-pests, and diseases. ..... May we not recall the story of Rob inson Crusoe, and from this everlasting boys' favorite draw a lesson that is needing more and more to be learned? Most readers will remember that this poor castaway, with no hope of any human eye to observe his faithfulness, never tailed to carry out his conscienti ous duties towards his Maker, and it is safe to assume that he would haye con tinued to do so even if no other human being had ever set foot on his lonely isle. All the boys and what are we men but boys grown older? will con fess the thrill of interest that came when Robinson Crusoe suddenly saw before him a foot-print in the moist and. As boys our chief interest in that fobt-print was the possible adven ture that it promised to Crusoe, but, as men, a moment's thought will con- ince us that the discovery of a fellow- creature brought into play for our hero n entirely new set of responsibilities. Xot only was he compelled to under- tand that his territory would now have to sustain another, but there was the possibility that that other would do damage to himselt in order to gain complete possession. His study to his Creator was not decreased, but duty to his fellow was super-added. In fact, Crusoe and Friday formed "a state" in miniature and Crusoe had to curb him self in various ways to display kindness, good-will, tact and unselfishness. We know how the adventure resulted. Fri day became an orderly and restrained neighbor because the right sort of ex ample was set before him. It may be urged that Crusoe was good to Friday from a selfish motive, but selfish mo rive or not, the way in which Crusoe conducted himself towards Friday was the only way in which both could live happily together. When other people came to the island Crusoe's responsibil- ty was still more increased and h's duties to his neighbors and their duties towards him became more complicated. Now for the application. There is no such thing as freedom to do as you please unless you live entirely separate lrom other human beings ; and then a paradoxical thing happens, because iberty of action is enjoyed alone it be- - . i : a 1 comes a very nat ana unmwsraawug possession. No civilization can hold together unless the members of it feel a mutual interest and responsibility ; or, to express it still more clearly where there is the highest' degree of social service there is the most enduring and most helpful form of government, and You can doubtless point me to selfishly prosperous periods in the world's his tory. I, on the other hand, can demon strate to you that selfish individuals are not the right material for an enduring fabric. It is the fond dream of Ameri cans that this great democracy is to go on growing grander with the progress of time we believe that it is to demon strate once and for ever the possibility of a people developing in a condition of peace and retaining through all their material growth the strongest kind of love for the institutions of the country r I as originally laid down by the self- forgetting ones who counted their lives as naught it they could but let the Lib erty-bell ring out "Freecom" over the nations. But this dream will remain a dream if we are content with the kind of progress that has characterized the past century, grand though it has been So much ot territory and of prosperity could be acquired by the strenuous toiler that individualism has run riot and the gaining of wealth been the only standard to rally to. If we are to live as a nation, selfishness in our relations to ourjellow men must cease or, like the selfish struggles of the unreflecting brute the weak and the strong will . i t .1 i i Btruggip wsemer ana aesiroy one an other. Too many of us feel as thou eh we were aucocranc monarens 01 our lands, our families, ourselves ; free to do what we like with every thing we have no matter how much outsiders may suffer. Herein do we err, for we are all tied up together like stocks in a fagot; weak alone, but, strong when bound close to even weak neighbors. 1 care hot how great a man you may feel yourself to be, either by your ill balanced self-approval or by the plaudits ol your fellows ; you must realize that without others to sustain you and to approye of you there would be no great ness in you at all. The debt is not all on one side. Who are you then to neglect the ill-favored and the unfavor ed ? AH, all are brethren in a democracy like ours ! A Linguistic Training. IF YOU ARE HUSTLER you wtet ADVERTISE your Business. Send Your Advertisement in Now. A BRAVE WIDOW. SHE HAD TBTJE CONVICTIONS, Warning on a Tombstone. All Planters of Fine Tobacco Should use Forum. One of the most valuable kinds of training which the college can give is the linguistic. If to think Is important, linguistic training, is important. For we think in words. Therefore thinking becomes clear, orderly, profound, as language is adequate. Language re presents those methods and results of thought without which thought itself is feeble and inefficient. Therefore training in language is of the highest yalue. To be able to think in or ade quately use the English or any other language one should know the lan guage. He can only know this language as he knows those languages which have made the richest contributions to its structure. Every new science and every new application of any old sci ence goes to the Greek tor its very name ; hence, a training in Latin and Greek is of the greatest worth. The college is not filling the mind with use less knowledge in requiring students to learn these, not dead, but living lan guages, Second, the scientific school is a pro- tessianai school, its graduate goes from its commencement, as goes the graduate ot the school of law, theology or medicine, directly to his life's work It is not a school ot liberal culture or of general training. It is to be said, and said with the utmost clearness, that the governors of our best technical and scientific schools are beginning to recognize the advantages which the man desiring to enter these schools possesses if he has previously received a general training through the college. A Card from a Georiia "Widow. If afflicted with scalp diseases, hair ailing out, and premature baldness, do not use grease or alcoholic preprrations but apply Hall's hair Eenewer. For sale by E. T. Whitehead & Uo., Scotland Neck, N. C. The Griffin, Ga., Call publishes the following card ot thanks from a heart broken widow : "Mr. Editor, I desire to thank the friends and neighbors most heartily in this manner of their co-operation during the illness and death of my late husband, who escaped from me by the hand of death on last Friday, while eating breakfast. To my friends and all who contributed so will ingly in making the last moments and funeral of my husband a success, I de sire to remember most kindly, hoping these lines may find them enjoying the same blessing. I have also a good milch cow, and a roan horse, 8 years old, which I will sell cheap. "God moves in a mysienous way his wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps on the sea and rides upon the storm." Also a black and white shaot very low. ARE l?OU OUT OF SOETS. Who is not at times, during this sea son of the year? How can one help being out of sorts when one is carrying around in his blood all the impurities that have accumulated during the long winter? No wonder you can hardly get up the steps. But there is a relief for this sort of thingf The Mood can be relieved of its loaf. What will do it?4 David's Sarsapalilla. Sold at Dr Whiteheads Drag Stof. Kansas City Times. Out in Oak Hill Cemetery, the fash lonable burying-ground of this city, a marble shaft towers far above its neigh 1.1 Tl f . . 1 1 i uur. 1, is coiussai in size, white as the driven snow; delicate in propor tions, exquisite in design, airy and graceful as a spire ot the Cathedral ol Milan when viewed from far awav. It is the observed of all those who visit the beautifnl cemetery and who tread the flower-lined and shadowy avenues, and they linger at the granite base to admire the delicate carving and ponder upon the strange and suggestive in scription chiseled upon Its polished sur face : At last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder. Prov. 23 :22. This unusual and unique monument marks the grave of a once prominent citizen. He was prominent in busi ness, prominent in politics, prominent in social affairs. He was the person ification of business integrity, a leader in public enterprise, the exemplar of the young men of the community. By and by, even as some insidious dis ease takes possession of the human body, an appetite for strong drink took possession of this business man, this political leader, this social lion, this model for young men. It came about like this : First, the glad New Year's happy greeting ; then the convivial cup at the camp-fire and the club ; then the public reception and the cordial en tertainment of the city's honored guest. His history is simply the old, old story, He fell from his lofty pedestal, from his high estate, from Heaven to hell Prosperity, political standing, social influence, everything was swept into ine great voriex wnerem sooner or later are engulfed all that has been or is of him who looketh upon the wine when it is red. He died and was burl ed. The people,, a great multitude, stood uncovered by the side of his open grave and listened, reverently, to the words of the preacher, who recounted the many good things the man, now dead, had said and done when living, though some marveled much at his neglect to "adorn a tale and point a moral." And long lines of civic so cieties, with their plumes nodding in the breeze and their rich regalia, a picture of beauty, threw over the rich casket "the broad mantle of charity, and cast into the open graye the em blems of immortality. The man had lived and was dead and buried, and the great world, forgetting his faults and Irailties.remembered only his excellencies. But the widow! She remembered even if she did not member the virtues of her TOBA A-ZDsTO - Guaranteed Analysis : Ammonia -Available Phos. Acid Potash K 2 O From High- u-raae suipnate 3.00 per cent. 8.00 per cent. 3.00 percent. -o- FOR SALE BY N. B. JOSKY, SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. TAKE YOUR PLACE IN LIF1. Let the Community Enow What Ton Are and where Your Influence May Be Found. Monroe Journal. The power of a real christian layman, one whose works tally with his pro fessions, is incalculable. Consecration in business is needed worse than con secration in the church. Mr. James G. Cameron, a banker of New York city, lately delivered a lecture on this subject, from which we quote as fol lows : "In this life every man should have his place. The question naturally arises, Have you found yours, and are you maintaining it? Don't be a wand erer or a floater through life. You have seen the driftwood carried hither and thither by the tides ; it is tossed about by every turbulent wave. Now it is on the crest, and anon It sinks into the trough of the sea. Does not this re mind you of some people you know, whose lives are devoid of ambition and purpose? What we want is more stab ility ot character among young men. Be something. Do something. Haye some place in the Christian ranks and community where you can perform your share of God's work. 'Outside ot your church and Young Men's Christian Association, take your place in the community as a distinctly religious man. Let it be known that you are a true and faithful .follower of the Lord Jesus Christ and soon the world will respect you. It is the weak and vacillating who never takes his stand or place who is most subject to temptation. Take your place outside of the realm of the vile and smutty . J . 1 1 Tl xl. - - J re- Sbury-iener.' xi mere is uue person 10 husband be shunned more than another it is English Spavin Liniment removes all Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and and Clemishes from horses. Blood Spavin Surbs, Splints. Sweene3r, Ring rmrm titles, Sprains, .ind Swollen Through, Coughs, Etc; Save 60 by use of one bottle. Warranted the most wonarful Blemism Cure ever known. Sold bo E. T. Whitehead A Co., Druggists, Scotland Neck, N. C. 10 1 ly. Compare our Work with that of our Competitors. ESTABLISHED IN 18G5. CHAS. M. WALSH. Steam Me i;i baits WORKS, Sycamore St., Petersburg, Va. Monuments, Tombs, Cemetery Curb ing, &o. All work strictly first class and at Lowest Prices. I ALSO FURNISH IUOX 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 11y JEWELRY the cursed cause of ruin. And one day by her orders, the imposing monument aboye his grave was erected, and around it. from apex to granite base, the sculptor had chiseled from the inani mate marble a snake of many coils, whose forked tongue, eyer protruding, ana stony eyes, never closing, are a constant warning to all who Iook upon it and read the strange device upon the polished surface of the granite base, that "At last it biteth like a and stingeth like an adder." More of Them Needed. the fellow in college or in business who is continually sapping all that is pure and true in manood by telling to his fellows stories of a questionable char acter. I know that many so-called smart men in the community have this despicable and baneful habit, and in my opinion there is nothing too severe that can be said in condemnation of the practice. 'We all like good, pure jokes and The Monroe Journal recently pub lished some results of a reyival of re ligion in that town, which show what real heart religion will do for anyone. Here is the item : "The late revival meeting has been the means of putting some conscience money into circulation. One gentle1 man living in the country called at the postofflce a few days ago and asked for his mail. He was handed a letter con taining $12 and a scrap of paper with onlv these words on it : ' This is your money." He did not understand why any one should be sending him money in that style, and after two or three days thought, concluded that it was from a man who had got ahead of him about that much in a trade sometime back. . The other morning Belk Bros received a letter containing $11.06 and a note saying, "This is for a coat I beat you out of." Another man living in the country received $15 which a man had unjustly gotten out of him in a horse trade." FOR 0ER FIFTY YEARS serpent I occasionally well-pointed puns, but no thing seems to please some men more than an effort to provoke merriment by appealing to the baser side of man. Frown them down ; never laugh at shafts which have their origin in the evil one. Let it be known that your place Is not among such associates, or among those who make light of religi ous subjects. Use all jour influence to counteract and neutralize their evil tendencies. Let it be known that your place on Sunday is in the house of God ; that your place is in the Bible A!ST) SILVERY ASE!!! WATCHES AND CLOCKS TUT IN PERFECT RDI'AIR We have engaged tlo services of Mr. J. P. Perry, from the Chicago Watch Ma kers' Institute, whore ho, took a thorough couive, mid is prepared to do ALL KINDS OF REPAIRING And Engravins His office is at our show window in front. All work is guaranteed. GIVE HIM A CALL t. T.-WHITEHEAD & CO., 4 25tf Scotland Neck, N. C. E. V. HEPTINSTALL, ENFIELD, N. C. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for over fifty years by mil lions of mothers for their children while teething, with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind collie, and lsl iner? class forlhe study of God's word ; that your place is among the people of God, and vour companions who are not Christians will soon cease endeavoring to persuade you to participate in a bicycle run on Sunday, or to frequent places of amusement where you would hesitate to have your dear mother or sister accompany you." HOW DID YOU GET UP THIS MORNING. With a bad taste in your mouth ? Good for nothing feeling? All run down in spirits? "Yes," you say "and what does it mean. Well, it means that nature is serv ing notice on you, that's all. The im purities which have accunulated in your blood through the winter and are there yet, and it is a notice for you to get up and get them out and save trouble. "What will do it," you will ask. "A first class blood purifier." "And what is a first class blood pur- the best remedy for Diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor 'little sufferer imme diately. Sold by Druggists in every part of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for ''Mrs. I Winslow's Soothing Syrup," and take no other kind. 1 21 ly. "David's Sarsaparilla." "Where can I get it" "Dr. Whiteheads Drug Store. General Butcher And Dealer in Fresh Meats of all kinds. ORDERS FILLED PROMPTLY and delivered to any point in the town. PATRONAGE SOLICITED. 3 11 tf BRICK ! HAVING INCREASED MY FACIL ITIES I AM NOW PREPARED TO FURNISH DOUBLE QUANTITY OF BRICK. Also will take contract to furnish lots lrom 50,000 or more anywhere within 50 miles of Scotland Neck Chew Alley's Rosebud. Chew Rosebud, Sure ! Can always furnish what. you want. Correspond-. ence and orders solicited.. D.A.XSADDZUr, 1-10-95-ly Scotland Neck, N. C. - MENTION THIS PAPEH. : i 4' "'4 1 -
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