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1 ADVERTISING IS TO BUSINESS -WHAT STEAM IS TO- Macliiiiery, IF YOU ARE HE MJSTLtft YOU WILL ADVERTISE YOUX Business. That Gskat Propelling Powek. THAT CLASS OF READERS THAT YOU Wish your Advertisement TO KEACH is the class who read this paper. -jaw- " HI. Fifty Years Ago. Who could imagine that this should be The place where, in eighteen ninety-three That white world-wonder of arch and dome Should shadow the nations, polychrome . . . Here at the Fair was the prize conferred On Ayer's Tills, by the world preferred. Chicago-like, they a record show. Since they started 50 years age. Ayer's Cathartic Pills have, from the time of their preparation, been a continuous success with the public. And that means that Ayer's Pills accomplish what is promised for them; they cure where others fail. It was fitting, therefore, that the world-wide popularity of these pills should be recognized by the World's Fair medal of 1893 a fact which emphasizes the record: 50 Years of Cures. For sale bv E. T. Whitehead & Co, Scotland Xeck, X. C. PROFESSIONAL. R. A. C. LIVERMON, DFFiCE-Over the Staton Building. DfRce hours from 9 to-1 o'clock ; 1 n'Mrir!r n m 2 to SCOTLAND XECK, NfC. IAVID BELL, Attorney at Law, ENFIELD, N. C. Practices in all the Courts of Hali :ax and adjoining counties and in the Supreme and Federal Courts. Claims wllected in all parts of the State. V, A. DUNN, ATTORXE Y-A T-L A TP. 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. W Money Loaned on Farm Lands. H OWARD ALSTON, Attorney-at-Ijaw, LITTLETON, N. C. D R- C. A. WHITEHEAD, DENTAL Surgeon, Tarboeo, N. C. SCOTLAND 3ECK STEAM DYE WORKS ''Iocbxisg Goods a Specialty Get price list. Address Scotland Neck Steam Dyeing Co 1-24-ly Scotland Neck N. C REUEF IN SIX HOURS. distressing Kidney and Bladder dis hes relieved m six hours by the "New rT, UTH American Kidney Cork Tt,.a ... . SrS"? 0n ?CC0Unt f ita "Ceding ra?!nf"-lu Sieving pain in the u,3 uew rerrlfiflv la a rrmal o TvT ys' back and every part ,nj ,; reneves retention of water rr1" m Wmng H almost immedi- ".k." want lick relief and """,7, 'your remedy. i , J,5Sy ?' T; Whitehead and Co Drnmriata. Scotland Neck. K. a 3 . E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. , "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00. VOL. XILL Sew Serics-Yol. 1. SCOTLAND NEOK, N. P., THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1897. NO. 19 r " " ' r- . - i . . THE EDITOR'S LEISUBE HQUBS. Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. The York Dispatch says that while Grover Cleveland . has ceased to be President, he will be President again TNext time the Dispatch thinks he will be President of Princeton University. Perhaps the longest stretch of rail road without any stop is on the Great Western railway of England. It runs from Paddmgton station in London, to Exeter, a distance of 194 miles in hours and do minutes. It makes no slop for the entire run but takes up water from a trough alongside the track while it is running nearly 50 miles an hour. The water tank holds 30,000 gallons. The run is made every day and the train is saia to roll in on time almost every run. Rev. Thomas Dixon preached for Dr. Lorimer in Chicago some time ago. One of Dr. Lorimer's congregation, Miss Bell by name, was greatly affect ed by Mr. Dixon's preaching and has written a novel, "Little Sister to the Wilderness," in which she makes Mr. Dixon the hero under the name of Cam den. The work is to be dramatized and put on the stage next season. To an inquiry by the editor of the New York Journal, Mr. Dixon has written that he believes that Miss Bell has made him the hero of her book. S ...... Those who are partial to the beauti fully (?) proportioned tooth-pick shoe do not know all about it. It is claim ed by physicians and students of hy giene that such shoes are very delete- reous to the development of certain parts of the bodv. They throw the reat toe out of position and thereby unbalance the body and keep a person from standing perfectly erect. The oohsh style has caused, some claim, paralysis in the small muscles of the foot and spoiled the proper elasticity of the step. Also the compression of the bood vessels retards the circulation and prevents the proper development of the foot, leg and thigh. ...... j "Pouring oil upon the waters" is an expression that has come to be proverb ial. There is more in it than many . . . - -i ! suppose. Sometimes mention is maae of the possibility of quieting the mad and stormy sea by pouring oil upon the waters, and some smile incredulous- y-and think it impossible. It is not only possible but practicable. Only a few days ago the papers told of the two steam ships, Samaria and Alcalde, start ing from Seattle together for San Fran cisco. They encountered a storm jand the vessels unintentionally separated. The Alcalde reached 'Frinco but the Sa maria, it is thought, went down. The Alcalde was only saved by throwing out oil bags which moderated the force of the sea immediately about her. Yes, oil will calm the mad and lashing sea, and we sometimes, wonaer wuy wjib j i protection is not more nearly perfected- Messrs. Hector and Hugh McLean, the two celebrated Harnett county twins, drove into town .yesterday morn- ing. It nas been Dut a iew jb oiu they would walk the distance,- nearlv thirty-nine miles, and with ease. They will be eighty-seven years old next month. Each has his coffin already procured and yesterday they were nego tiating with Mr. Remsburg for a-mon ument to be erected over their graves. Fayetteville Observer. The editor of The Commonwealth remembers eoine to the home of these gentlemen nearly twenty years ago; and there are many remarkable things about them. They have lived together all their lives, have never married, and they are so much alike that you can not tell one from the other. They are the most unique characters in North Carolina, we doubt not. They live on the North side of Cape Fear river, sev eral miles from Lillimrton, the county seat, and their names are household words throughout the county, not so much for what they have done or have not done, but for their marked eccen tncities. . : Chew Bosebud Tobacco. Rosebud Tobacco Handled 5 by all dealers., . MEANING MONUMENTS. THE SCAN MORE THAN ZIABBLE. Some Gambling Thoughts. BY "NEMO.1 (Copyrighted.) "How nice to have a flag over every school-house ; it is such an ornament !" says one. "What a good idea to decorate the graves of the dead ; it makes the burial- ground look so bright and pretty !"says another. "What a homely old scare-crow Hor ace Greely's statue makes ; the ill-fit ting clothes and the great pudgy face, surmounted by a bald head are a blotch on Greely Square !" says a third. And so on, and so lortn, until the neart grows weary at the large proportion oi people who gaze only at the outer as pect of flags, public ceremonials, and monuments. We need more of a na tional imagination, so as to look back of scenic effects and look deeper than the surface ; then are we ready to be thrilled by the real things and the real sufferings typified in waying bunting or silent bronze. ' Imagination blessedly broadens and deepens life ; without it the past be comes almost silent to us. With it, the great are our companions and great deeds our native atmosphere. This inner sense of appreciation transforms the plain contents of a church into an arena where souls have struggled to gether tor an eternal destiny. By this power the least memory of the city of Washington is that of rooms and build ings ; the greatest, that of a place where mental conflicts, fierce and furious, have been fought out with mental weapons, sharpened and serviceable, where national destinies haye been made or marred by words, light as air and heavy with fate. We Americans ought to make it a rule never to visit a mounment without either before or after reading up the tacts of the life portrayed before us. We shall then quickly free ourselves from the nonsensical elements of hero- worship, which impart to the hero strangely favorable circumstances and a condition of being with nobler possibili ties than ours ; and arrive at thef" con clusion that our heroes of the battle field or of Congress, of the pulpit or of commerce are men who have been in every way tried like we are, disappoint ed often, cheered occasionally, deter mined ever. This sane view of them will be the best view for gaining most of good from their careers. Take as an example the celebration in New York this week. General Grant's tomb is practically complete ; these days will witness its dedication and transference to the care of the city of New York. Thousands of soldiery and hundreds of thousands of citizens will be gathered near it for a few hours ; martial music and impassioned speeches will thrill the hearers ; and then the great crowds will melt away, each in dividual returning to his pleasures or burdens, leaving the tomb to its mo tionless vigil over the dead. Sceni- cally the tomb is unique. It will al ways be one of the notable features of the city, raised in forceful shape where neither houses nor commerce can ever hide it from view either bv water or by land ; and unnumbered living and those yet to live will come to it to gaze and pass on. Some will see in it less of grandeur than is possessed by the mausoleum of Hadrian in Rome, after which it seems undoubtedly to have been modelled ; others will admire its stern, square simplicity standing stur dily alone and unmoved amid the rest letsness of the tides before it and the turmoil of the city behind it ; the few will think of Grant as a real person and see in his tomb the spiritf the man who endured hard duties quietly, met disappointments quietly, enjoyed triumphs quietly. It seems to me that all this pageantry and pride is the very last thing Grant himself would have approved ?the thought of being idly stared at by sight seers would have disquieted him. The encouragement he gives to us or dinary individuals is great at every point. He was not a brilliant man but y.a a forceful, persistent one, who xjw ' . iust tried to do right and it unsuccess fal just tried again. The thing that seemed a duty to him he would follow throughthick and thin with the re lentlessness of Death. His greatness consisted in doing one thing well, and For every variety, and phase ot the many diseases which attack the air passages ot the throat and lungs, Ay er's Cherry Pectoral will be found spe cific. Its anodyne and expectorant qualities are promptly realized, and it t always ready for use. Uai on i. i wbueneaaE w i . . . m r 3 : i i wniieneauo- v, that the thing he was best fitted to do. It Is no derogation from his useful ness as a model for the average life to say that he ceased to be really great "as soon as the rumble oi battle had died down. A t that moment he rose to the zenith of magnanimity, when he de clared "Let there be peace" iwhen he re turned the horses to the vanquished of ficers because they would need them for plowing ; and when he forbade eith er music or signs of exultation, in the Northern Army while the arms of the Confederates were being stacked. From that time on he was a very ordinary man ; a poor judge of human nature while President ; a hasty man in con nection with one or two colonizing schemes, San Domingo, especially ; a poor business man in associating him self even in name with a hare-brained gambling plan. Yet like the light at eventide after a day of storm, which seems to call back all the possible glories of the hours that are past, his sublimity of character re-asserted itself when the doom of death had been pronounced upon him. Not even the long struggle ot wounded Garfield with death cduld equal Grant's fortitude. Fully conscious that the an gel whose behests he had followed in the time of war, had now com e for him ; painfully aware ot the shat tered fortune he seemed forced to leaye; nervously sensitive to the ig nominious effect brought upon his life by those whom he had trusted in his unbusinesslike way, he set his will to wrest victory from defeat. .On on on while the sands of life were ebby ing ; on on on even after his mind reeled under the strain, he pushed the completion of his biography, waving death aside until the work was done. Do not let us place him among the gods. He was not of their kind. We shall lose his helpfulness if we raise him above the level of the throng. He was a plain man, like thousands of others among us, who just bided his time, mourned a little oyer disappoint ments, (How like ourselves !) never hesitated to acknowledge a mistaken plan, (How unlike : us smaller men !) and was not deal when the moment came that summoned him to definite, unswerving action. Wages in 1800. John McMaster in Atlantic. What we call "workingmen," "the mechanic," had no existence as classes. Labor was performed almost exclusively in the south by slaves, and in the north very largely by men and women who for the time being were no better than slaves. All over the free states were thousands of Irishmen, Scotch men, Englishmen, Germans, who in re turn for transportation from the old world to the new, had bound them selves by indenture to serve the captain of the ship that brought them over. Soldiers in the army received $3 a month. Farm hands in New England were given $4 a month and found their own clothes. Unskilled laborers toiled 12 hours perday for 50 cents. Work men or the turnpikes then branching out in every direction were housed in rude sheds, fed coarse food and giv en $4 per month from November to May and $6 from May to November. When the road from GeHesee river to Buffalo was under construction in 1812, though the region through which it went was the frontier, men were hired in plenty for $12 per month in cash and their board, lodgings and a daily allowance of whiskey. Seamless Boats. Selected. There is a growing demand tor the seamless boat, which seems to be able to stand any amount of rough work. This boat is pressed out ot an ingot of steel and shaped by hydraulic power, and it fulfills all the requirements of an ordinary boat in a remarkably ingeni ous manner. It is claimed for these boats that they will last twice as long as wooden ones, that there is less danger of their capsizing.nd that they are less liable to be affected by changes of climate. The method by which the seamless boat is constructed is a larger annlication of the method which has inns been used, in this country for manufacturing cooking utensils and other articles of small dimensions. Stands at the Head. Aug. J. Bogel, the leading druggist of Shrevepord, La., says : "Dr. King's New Discovery is the only thing that cures my cough and it is the best seller I have." J..F. Campbell merchant of. Safford. Ariz., writes: "Dr. King's New Discovery is all that is claimed Jfor it ; it never fails, and is a sure cui-e for con sumntion. coughs and colds. I cannot say enough for its merits." Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption, coughs nd colds is not an experiment. It has been tried for a quarter of a century, and to-dav stands at the head. It nev er disabooints. Free trial bottles at F. T. Whitehead & Co.s drug store. j : - -- STRANGE MAN. TAEES HIS SLEEP STANDING. A California Man Who Lives in a , Sentinel B:z and Neyer Lies Down. San Francisco Call. Jake Rogers says that he is the only man in the world who sleeps standing up. And most likely he is right about it, although there are. many men living who claim to have done it under com pulsion during the last war. Jake also says that the reason he is so healthy is because he sleeps the way he does. Most people, however, would prefer to have a little less health and a little more comfort. The place where Jake has his home is not a very well populated one. It is in Mendocino couutv, only a few miles northeast of Los Robles, and the near est neighbor is some distance from his place. But, then, Jake doesn't want neighbors, so that feature is really an inducement for him. In tact, Jaice says that the reason he took up his present abode was to get lid ot neigh bors. He is not of a very good disposi tion, and an effort to get him to talk about anything but himself will surely result in failure. 1 It is safe to say that Jake's house is the only one of its kind in the world. It is built to sleep standing up in, and it would be impossible for a person to sleep in it any other way unless he curl ed up like a bear. Jake built the house himself out ot boards and logs that he picked up in different parts of the country. It is a queer looking affair, having greatly the appearance of a chimney with a roof on it, and a very dilapidated roof at that. But the shan ty is a strong one and keeps out the wet, and that is all that is required. Even the latter is not required the greater part of the year in that section. There is only the door and no windows. While the outside of the house may look queer the inside looks queerer. There is only one piece of furniture, and that is what Jake calls bis bed. It really looks more like a coffin standing on end, for it is a sort of a box tilted back only a few inches from the per pendicular. It is nailed at the bottom and also at the top, so that it is immov able. The inside of it is lined with straw and covered with cloth, to give it a little comfort in cold weather, Jake says. When Jake wants to sleep, all he does is to lie back in his box and close his eyes. He says it doesn't take him long to forget his troubles. In the next breath he will tell you he has no troubles since he took to sleeping stand ing up. Jake does no cooking in his house, simply because there is no room. His culinary department is located under a tree a short distance away. His food consists ot anything he can get by beg ging, borrowing or finding. But he doesn't do much borrowing since the neighbors have grown to know him. "The way I sleep is the only right way for anybody to sleep," said Jake, "and the sooner people come to their senses and do aaI do the soon er disease will be stamped out of the world. The noblest animal of all is the horse, and he sleeps standing up. How did I come to find out it was the right way? Ob, that is easy enough to an swer. ' "You see, 1 was sick as a boy way back in Massachusetts, about 70 years ago, and nothing I did done me no sort of good. There always was something the matter, and as soon as I laid down in bed my head began to ache. But, do you know I stood that for half a cen tury before I got any sense into me? And then I was out in California dig ging for gold. "One night my head ached so bad I couldn't stay in bed, and I had to stand against the wall to get relief. Without knowing it I fell asleep, and when I woke up I felt like a new man. I made up my mind to sleep that way all the time, but had trouble to find a place to -w 1 do it. That is the reason i moyea out to this place. It's over 15 years ago, and I have never had a sign of the old trouble and am convinced that sleeping in bed is the couse of all the pain and disease in tbo worlds Sleep standing up, and you will be a newsman in a short time." The strange thing about Jake's the ory is that he doesn't rest when he sleeps standing up. He has to do that under the trees the next day. He says that has nothing to do with his idea, though, for most people do too mucn work anyhow. BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE. The best salve in the world for Cuts Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup tions, and positively cures Piles, or no wmninwi. it is guarantwu w ki U-wt. Mtlflfaetion or money refnncea Priee za cenis per w. . E. T. WHITEHEAD CO, t r - THE OLD INDIAN SPRING AT HALIFAX. Near Halifax, that ancient town, Which hist'ry's page holds in renown, Hidden beneath a risiner height. A spring has flowed, time out of mind : A 1. I - i . .... . .... a. rocK-ouut rim its waters bind Whose maker's name no man can write. Two Indian lovers, at Roanoke's race. Made this old spring their trysting . place : l Here meUbere lov'd and pledg'd the neart, That while this clear, cool spring should run, Or day give back the hiding sun. Their love no length of days should part Aye, while this limpid spring should flow, To Roanoke's greater stream below, And onward to the mightier sea ; Swore by the happy hunting grounds, Or by the thunder's hidden sounds- True unto death their love should be A quaint rock-wall, about the spring, He made a strong and massive ring, And quainter outlet made he still : Then bade the spring forever flow, Type of love, down the glen below In a laughing silvery rill. The lovers lie 'mong the Indian mounds, Have met perhaps in the hunting grounds And still the spring keeps on to flow. To flow how long no one can tell, But hearts bo true, that loved so well, Such love forever more must' know, Bill Drake. Salaries of Consult. Selected. The highest salary paid in the Unit ed States consular service is received by the Consul-General at Havana, Cu ba, and is $6000 a year. The Consuls at London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Liv erpool, Shanghai, Calcutta, and Hong Kong receive $5000; at Melbourne, $5500 ; at Berlin, Montreal, Yokahama, Panama and Mexico City, $4000 ; at Halifax, Vienna, Amoy, Canton, Tient sin, Havre and Calloa, $3500; . at Sa- moan Islands, . Constinople, Dresden, Guayaquil, Frankford, Ottawa, Rome, St. Petersburg, Singapore, Capetown, St. Gall, Switzerland.; Prague, Antwerp, Valparaiso, Hangkon, Chunkiang, Bor deaux, Barmen, Belfast, Demarara, Glassgow, Osaki, Kobe, Vera Cruz, Mantan zas, Basle and Montevideo, $3000. Thirty one consulates in dif ferent parts of the world pay $2500, and sixty two pay $2000. The remain der pay $1500 and $1000. Things Hecessary to Scholarship. H. & H. Journal. 1. Industry. The lazy man is al- m t . m ways hindmost, xne tendency oi modern society is to move so fast as to shuffle him off, and leave him behind. The man who chooses laziness must take the inevitable result desertion by the world. Sir Isaac Newton gave credit for his progress in knowledge not so much to his superior genius as to a habit of close thinking, laborious attention and close application. In- dustrj- often makes up for a lack of biHty. This ought to be a comfort to any one who does not stand well in his class or bear a record for scholarship. Activity makes up for other deficiencies. There no art or science that is too difficult for industry to master. 2. Thoroughness. Here is where most fail. 3. Concentration of mind. By this is meant such a control over the mind that one can center it and keep it cen tered. The moment one loses self mastery that moment he fails. Let not the attention be diverted from a lesson until it has been thought out. This is hard work, but it pays. FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS Mrs. Wiuslow'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 is 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. Winslow's Soothing Syrup," and take no other kind. ' . 1 21 ly. A wolf in sheep's clothing is none the less a wolf. 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 aocu nutated 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 firtt class blood pur ifier?" --. -.. ' . "David's Sarsaparilla." :. "Where can I get it" "Dr. Whiteheads Drug Store. Chew Boeebud, Sure ! , , Send Your Advertisement dt Now. No. in. White Enamel Ptoel Bad, olid brass trimmings. We Imve them 64 in. wide, 48 in. wide, 42 In. wide and 86 in. wide. All sizes are 78 in. Ions.' Special Price (any size) 32.75 (orders promptly filled.) Everywhere local Ot-alers bio saying unkind things ab ut us. Tiioir cus tomers are tired of par : uk ' hem double prloes; our immense (fret-) money, saving catalogue is enlightening- the masses. Drop a postal now for com plete catalogue of Furniture, Mattings, Carpets. Oil Cloths, Baby Carriages, Befrigerators, Stoves, Fancy Lamps, Bedding, Spring-", etc. The catalog: costs you nothing and we jtay all post age. Get double value for your dollai by dealing with the manufac turers. JULIUS KINES & SON, MLIIMUKt, HID. English Spavin Liniment remove! 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 Cme ever known. Sold bo E. T. Whitehead A Co., Druggists, Scotland Neck, N. C. 10 1 Iv. Compare our Work with that of our Competitors. ESTABLISHED IN 1865. CHAS. H. WALSH. Stem Marblo li fruit! WORKS, l'l I C Ct T. ....t., XT. Monuments, Tombs, Cemetery Curb ing, &c. 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 PAPEB. 3 ly JEWELRY -AND QTT T7TPT? TX7 A T? TT. T M KJ A T 1 TV hv WATCHES AND CLOCKS PUT IN PERFECT REPAIR. We have engaged the eeryices of Mr7 J. P. Perry, from the Chicago Watch Ma kers' Institute, where he took a thorough riirBA nnrl 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., 4 25 tf Scotland Neck, N. C. E. 7. IIEPTINSTALL, ENFIELD, N C. G-eneral Butcher A nrl Ttaalnr in ITraah Maafainf nil kinds. C"ORDERS-FILLED PROMPTLY and delivered to any point in the town. PATRONAGE SOLICITED. 311tf BRICK! HAVING INCREASED MY FACIL ITIES I AM NOW PREPARED TO FURNISH DOUBLE QUANTITY OF BRICK. Also will take contract to furnish lots from 50,000 or more anvwhere within 50 miles of Scotland Neck Can always furnish what. you want. Correspond ence and orders solicited., D. A. EXADDrrST, 1-10-95-ly I Scotland Neck, NV C. ''f MIXTION THIS . r.'j.'-'.-
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