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The Commonwealth. E. E. HILLIARD, .... Editor. Published Every Thursday. Entered at the Post-Office at Scotland Neck, IV. C, as Second Class Matter. THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1897. NEWSPAPERS AS INDUSTRIAL FACTORS. There is perhaps no more potent fac tor in the industrial enterprises of the day than well managed and reliable newspapers. The great army of bene factors to mankind, like all other ar mies, need to know at various points just what is going on at other points ; and there is no other medium so ready and so available for this work as the newspaper. It is a sort of operator in "secret service" calling from one hill top to the other, informing the enter prising people of one section what those of another are doing. Many people seem to think that the work of newspapers is simply to tell o: murders, riots, storms, floods, disasters and bad things generally, and they rate them according to the amount of such news their columns carry. This is a mistake. A newspaper must neces sarily tell many such things that would just as well be left untold ; but it ought to tell more good things than bad if pos- sible. The newspaper has become an invaluable medium for giving facts, and sending them far, of the many mammoth industries of the age. ,1s there a "magic city"? The world learns of it through the newspapers. Is there a wonderful find of some mining indus try? The newspapers tell the world next day. Is there a wonderful pro ductiveness ot the soil in a certain lo cality i j.ne newspaper is sought as the medium through which the world learns of it. Is there a great develop ment of any industry whereby mankind is benefited? The newspaper first an nounces it to' every nook and corner of the land. And so the newspaper serves the great masses of millions of people in a thousand ways of which they do not reckon. These observations were suggested by a seven column article in Sunday's News and Observer, giving facts and figures andjigegeral outli ue jotthe foundation and growth of the town of itoanoke Kapids in this county. The Commonwealth as long ago as the summer of 1894, we believe, gave quite a long article on the work at Roanoke Rapids, but that was before the canal and dams were completed. Since that time there has sprung up quite a town there, with two or three factories and even a greater population than some at that time thought there would be this early. - The write-up given by the News and Observer last Sunday is the work of Mr. F. B. Arendal of the News and Ob server staff, and is quite creditable. In it Major Thomas L. Emry is properly regarded as the life of the enterprise aud the real builder of the town. There are few such men as Major Em ry so filled with energy and so well able to properly direct it all. The article referred to in the News and-Obferver pays Ma j. Emry the fol lowing deserved compliment in the . first paragraphs : "Six years ago Maj. Thomas L. Emry stood on the banks of the Roanoke Riv er, at what was then known as Great Falls, five miles above Weldon, and watched the great volume of water as it whirled to waste over a mile or more rugged rapids. "There was a force, a mighty volume of force, a great power lashing itself into exhausted tranquility, paralyzing its energies against the shoals and the banks for lack ot more profitable utili , zalion, and then flowing on down the watery highway until it gathered more frbrno fn Via laahorl anratn infA Itl-t j o - - - - .... . . . argy against other shoals. "There was something in .the man that stood beside the river, akin to the raging, restless stream. There was a force in him, a volume of reserve pow er, that had been partly going to waste. He had been merchant, planter, legis lator, but he had force for all these and to spare. "He watched the raging waters and he thought of the great money value in at was going neaaiong down t he stream never to return. 'The mills sever grind with the water that has passed,' he mused. That great pent up reserve force in the man exerted itself . i i t - r n i : . . , huu ue cam, x win uarueas tms wnu torrent, this untamed, reckless force. I'll tame it and make it do the bidding of the artisan and the operative.' He "highway and led it, or a great volume r . . I I l i . oi it, inrougn a eraueu canai aiong me brow of the hill for nearly a mile. He holds it in captivity and releases it only on Ronaiuun tuui ii pusses nut, over XXI L T ucucio auu .xxxjxmvso i oiailP s i f..u li in - iiiui iuu a nine ciiy iuii ui puiieys aud wheels, spindles, looms and other machinery," , -, CONGRESSIONAL EXTRA VA-GANCE. Baltimore Sun. In a recent issue the Financial Chronicle compares the increase of the cost of government in the United States in the last sixty years with the increas ed cost of government in other coun tries in the same period, with the re sult of showing that while the increase in these other countries was forced chieflv by apprehensions of war, with us congressional extravagance and reck lessness have been the preponderating causes. In 1836 our federal expendi ture, excluding interest on the debt, was $30,808,164 ; in 1896 it was $316, 794,417 a tenfold increase. Our pop ulation and settled area have no doubt increased greatly in that period and some part of the increased cost of gov ernment was necessary. But consider ation of items shows that a large part ot it was not necessary. In the last fifteen years our expenditure, exclusive ot interest on the public debt, has in creased $129,890,000. There has been in that time no increase of our army and but a small increase of the navy. The bulk of our waste has been on things for which we have nothing to show. Since 1882 our annual pension expenditure has been increase by $78, 000,000, though some years before 1882 Garfield had declared that the proper maximum had already been reached. Our annual outlay on rivers, harbors, public buildings, etc., has risen by $30, OOO.OOOin the last fifteen years, though our needs have not increased in that proportion. Useless offices, salaries, printing and luxuries cost us other millions of increase. "Ours" said Mi . Cannon, in his report at the last session of Congress, "is the only govern ment in the civilized world wherein the administrative branch assumes no responsibility for its demands for expen diture," but goes on piling up such de mands without regard to probable in come. There have been large increases in other countries, but they have been carefully adjusted yearly, to probable income and have been dictated by sup posed military necessities. Sixty years ago, says the Chronicle, Great Britian was, as she is now, "the richest nation of the world." Her revenue was then -1260,000,000; it is now $560,000,000. Her foreign trade has increased nearly six-fold. The income from England's Tariff in 1837 was 72 percent, of the total revenue, whereas it is but 44 per cent, and the laboring man pays in tax es, on the principle articles ot con sumption but one-fourth of what his grandfather paid. The area of the em pire has grown from eight million eq!u& miteo w eieven minions, ana IIS population from 160,000,00010 400,000, 000. It is easily the first, the English claim, in commercial enterprise, finan cial resources and wise administration Expenditures have grown in the sixty years almost equally with the revenue but not in as great proportion as wealth The interest on the public debt of the United Kingdom is but 2k per cent. and the principle, which is now $3,- 870,000,000, is $1,000,000,000 less than it was sixty years ago. During the past year $37,000,000 ot the debt was was paid off. Year by year taxes are increased or diminished on the motion ol the Chancellor of the Exchequer so as to balance almost exactly the ex pected expenditure, and this official alone can propose an increase of ex penditure. It follows that he leels his responsibility, and only necessary ap propriations receive bis approval. All items are closely scanned by the man who must hnd the revenue to meet them. The system is not like ours one committee for "ways and means" and eight or nine other committees, each a law to itself, at work on esti mates made up by the departments, each eager to get as much as it can from congress, in or does the House of Lords, like our lordlier Senate, feel at liberty to swell appropriations Policy, not log-rolling, has caused the large increase of the budgeds of most European countries since 1871. The arming of France after that year caused Germany to increase enormously her army expenditures, and the two coun tries have reacted on each other. When Germany armed, Russia had to do the same, and when Russia armed Austria had to follow her example. It aly, confronted with France on one side and Austria on the other, exhaust ed herself in armaments. In this een. J3 eral increase of armies, the navies of France, Russia, Germany and Italy were also increased pari passue, so that, to restore the balance of sea power En gland's naval expenditure is now four times as great as it was sixty years ago, She spends this year, on her warships $109,190,000 against $21,500,000 spent by Germany, $47,425,000 spent France and 27.o0U.()0O srient b th United States. The necessities of the military situation have caused nearly three-fourths of the increase of the run ning expenses of England's government in recent years, and much the same mav be said tor the increase of other European governments This cannot be said in defense of our increased ex penditure. During the last five years our outgo for pensions alone has exceed ed the annual payment made by France or Germany for its army, or by England lor its navy. . uur increased expendi ture is not forced on us by circumstan- STATE NEWS. ces ; it is needless waste. Moreover. the ratio of increase with ui has been nearly twice as rapid as it has been in the hard-pressed States of Europe. The Rocky Mount Phoenix says : "An earthquake tremor was distinct ly felt last week by several people on Mrs. -M. P. Battle's plantation about four miles from town." An old gentleman, by the name of Mr. Lee, while crossing the railroad in front of the Battle placa .yesterday" af ternoou, was hit by a passing train, and was badlv injured. He was in his cart. One of his libs was broken and the joint in his ankle was dislocated. Tar boro Dispatch. The greatest curiosity we have seen in the way of a chicken is one brought to our office this week with two dis tinct sets of wings and legs. There was no difference in size of legs or wings, one set being as large as the other. The body was unusually large with one head. Littleton Reporter. We learn that Mrs. Amanda Card, who lives in the neighborhood of Michner, this county, killed quite a curious snaxeone day this week. It was very large, bronze color, had a horn on the end of the tail with a stinger in the horn. When she struck the snake he broke' into four different pieces. It must have been a "combi natiion" snake. Louisburg Times. The Elizabeth City Economist sa3rs : "John Lowry was before the mayor on Tuesday on a complaint and arrest for kicking a maid servant out of his house for striking his baby, abusing his wife with obscene language and cursing him. In their wrangle he had threatened her with his boot toe, and she defied him and invited him to use it, when he ac commodate! her he confessed. He was muctled in $6 and costs, when he de parted sine die." . The Warrenton Gazette says : "There was quite a little excitement here on Monday over an elopement case, ien days ago a German and h;s wife and another German located on me rrown iraci at vaugtian ana on Monday the single man stole the oth er's wife and eloped, the last seen of them being at Ridgeway. The wom an was unusually handsome and was about twenty-five years old aud is said to possess considerable means. The couple had been married a month and had never seen the other man "until af ter marriage." Seventy years ago a traveling show man died here from injuries received in a performance. Every show that comes - here sends a delegation to his grave to strew flowers on it. This has been a custom from the time within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, Last Sunday elaborate and formal me morlal services W.ero hold at tho grave by members of Cooper's circus. Head ed by their band and followed by many citizens of Concord, they marched to the spot where his bones ropose and J 1 . -. 1 n m. uecuraieu n, wiin nowers, alter prayer and a talk by one of the show men. Concord Standard. PROFIT IN WOOL. Warrenton Gazette. Mr. H. A. Boyd recently sheared his flock of sheep, from one of which he. got a fleece of clean wool that weighed 10 pounds, and three of the fleeces weighed 27J pounds. He has the Cots wool and Southdown blood. , . The sheep industry ought to be one of the most valuable in the South, but it is virtu ally worthless, simply because our peo ple neglected it. Sheep can make their own living here and do well the entire year, and need no feed from the mas ter, except occasionally for a few days when the earth is covered In snow, How-many golden opportunities are our people letting slip by. Some of us are rather too old to very materially mend our way, but the young men, what a golden opportunity lies before them. The fruit is hanging ready, yet so few pluck it. It Will gO... j; i Right to the spot ; ! Ayer's Hair Vigor will go , I right to that bald spot and i begin to bring the hair back. jj It Makes " I j! Hair Grow. ' For sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co., Scotland Neck, N. C. Rosebud Best 10 Tobacco. AULANDER NEWS. W. L. Douglas $3 Shoe. Stvlish, durable, perfect fitting. - Endorsed by over 1,000,000 wearers. W.L. Douglas $30, $4.00 and $540 Shoes are the productions of skilled workmen, from the best material pos sible at these prices. Also $2,50 and $2 Shoes for Men, $250, $2 and $1.75 Boys We nieonly thebestCalf, Russia Calf. French Patent Calf, French Enamel, Vici Kid, etc., graded to correspond with prices of the ahoea. If dealer cannot supply yon, write Catalog free. W. L. DOUGLAS,Brockton, Mass. SOLD BY E. SHIELDS, 2 25 4m. Scotland Neck, N. C. B. 0. CARLISLE, Gamnet Mm i Ittsi. FURNITURE OF ALL KINDS. Upholstering and General Repairing. Chew Rosebud Tobacco. Chew Rosebud Tobacco. WA NTS TO S WAP. The Wilmington Messenger wants to swap governors with Tennessee. It said a few days ago : 'Captain Billy Day wished from his boots that every state had just such governor as North Carolina's Russell, who is sui generis, and when he ales the sample will be gone and none like him will remain among either gover- - x . - " . nors or oiner cnuaren oi men. It is announced that North Carolina's afflic tion is at the Tennessee centennial or will be there. As Governor Bob Tay lor, unique, gifted, of another style and kind altogether, will soon resign, we rise to inquire if it is not possible some how to make a trade 'with Tennessee, Can it not in some marvellous, now un known way, be brought about that North Carolina can have Governor Bob and our own precious and very great governor can be left in his place at Nashville to try this one-man tsarism upon the Tenneseans ? It may shorten Russell's days, but it would greatly re lieve North Carolina. Out there he would be afraid not to behave himself, Orator Bob is a man ot genuine gifts of many kinds, and is very soulful and ur bane. A big boot might be offered. Suppose a subscription is -opened, While North Carolina is very stingy when she is called upon to erect a mon ument to Vance or some other ot her illustrious, children, her living sons would subscribe in a beep to get rid of the Tsar." Did you ever stop to think what in digestion really means ? It means sim ply that your stomach is tired. If our legs are tired we ride. The horse and strain engine ao tne worJc. Why not give your stomach a ride ; That is, let something else do its work. Foods can oe digested outside of the body. AH plants contain digestive principles which will do this. Shaker Dieestivfi Cordial contains digestive princisles and is a preparation designed to rest the stomach. The Shakers themselves have such unbounded confidence in it that they nave placed 10 cent sample bottles on the market, and it is said that even so small a quantity proves beneficial in a vast maioritv . of mum All druggista keep it. Laxol is the beat medicine for chil dren. Doctors recommend it in place of Castor Oil. Rosebud Tobacco is the best. Correspondence to The Commonwealth. Aui-ander,' N. C, May 25, 1897. Services were held at the church Sunday for the first time since the mov ing of the sama in town. The attend ance at Sunday-school bas increased about 25 per cent, and Superintendent Early is endeavoring to make it 50 per cent, within a few weeks. Not in a boastful spirit but we have one of the best Sunday-schools in the eastern part of the State. A large number of our people went to the second annual meeting of the Roanoke and Chowan Educational As sociation at Roxobel last Friday, and all report a grand time. Much enthu siasm prevailed and the day was profit ably spent. The choir from Aulander rendered assistance in giving music. Going to commencement is all the rage, and our town is getting quite tbin for the time being. Last week at Winton, this week at Winton, Rich Square, Murfreesboro and Wake For est. - Trof. Herbert W. Early, who bas been teaching at Warrenton, S. C. for the past year and who returned home recently, bas gone to Wake Fore3t com mencement. Mr. W. J. Eure, of the firm of Eure Bros, is now. on an extensive trip through the State. Mr. W. H. Baker, a photographer of Edenton, spent a few days in town this week and did a good deal of work. Mrs. vv . D. Buskett has just return ed from visiting friends in Virginia. The commencement of Aulander Classical and Commercial Institute will not be held until June I7lh and 18th. The programme is one of the best and it promises to be the best commence ment in the history of the institution. Prof. J. B. Carlisle of Wake Forest will deliver the address before the Literary society, Rev. G. J. Dowell of Durham will preach the Baccalaureate Sermon, and Mess. A. R. Dunning and Alex Lassiter will deliver addresses before the alumnae. We are expecting a large crowd and knowth.nt nnrWthol training of such an efficient corps of Prices Low and Goods teachers, the program will be exceed ingly interesting. ROCKY MOUNT IHOtf WORKS, Manufacturers of The Victor Cotton Plow at $2, and the Justice at $2- MACHINERY OF ALL KINDS REPAIRED. CASTINGS OF ALL 1)F CRIPTIONS TO ORDER. Bicycle Repairing A SPECIALTY. Turn Plow Castings of all Descriptions at 2 1-2 cents and Cotton plow at 2 3-4 cents per pound. 218 6m ROSE & KERSEY, Proprietor, Rocky Mount, X. c. J2TO. 0. GAMAGE, - WOODSIDE'S LODGE WHARF, - NORFOLK, VA. Shell Lime, Land Plaster, ROCKLAND LIME, CEMENT, SEWER AND WELL PIPE, Drain Tile. Chimney Pipe, coal and Lime, 11 26 6m ,TAR, ETC.. W. D. HARRISON'S 'BUS LINE BETWEEN vw. . ROANOKE RAPIDS AND WELDON. SCHEDULE AS FOLLOWS : Leaye Weldon daily at 12 :20 p. m. Arrive Roanoke Rapids 1 :30 p. m Leave Roanoke Rapids, 2 :00 p. m. - Arrive Weldon 3 : p. m. K&" WILL MAKE SPECIAL TRIPS if necessary leaving Weldon at 8 :00 m. and 4 :00 p. m. FARE tor the round trip 75c. Fare one way only, 50c. 5 4 3m CGldTORTABLF VEHICLES AND GOOD TEAMS. A FVLJ, LINE of METALLIC, WAL NUT A ND POPLAR CA SKETS. l Ifiirt Horses and Buggies Always on Hand for Hire at Reasonable Pi ices. JAMES S. GROVES CO., M fflfl ProIcO ea AND GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS. 120 Warren St. New York, 39 and 41 Roanoke Squaee, Norfolk, Va. If you are ehipping anything to Norfolk, ship to i. Or if you are ship ping to New York, ship to us there. We are reliable and will treat you right. We are HEADQUARTEBS FOR ALL KINDS OF FRUITS. It you nre a dealer write us for prices. 26 Cm POWELL BROS., -GENERA! Also Cheap Coffins 9 6 6m . TARBORO ARBORO, N. U Commission Merchants. Pianos, Organs, Cotton and Peanut Factors. -STOCK, GRAIN, FRUITS AND PROVISIOXS.- inferences by permission Bank of Portsmouth, B. F. McUmore, Clerk of Southampton County, Va. ; Dun's Aaencu, and BradztreeV a Anm. 11 26 6m OFFICE 31 & 29 ROATCOK sottapi? nprnTtr v " o-AUXJ) Al AiX' VXiA.f V il, AND SMALL Musical Instruments. Hon. Henry Winston of Washing ton, with his brother F. D. Winston, Esq., of our county, made a short visit to Aulander Friday. It is a very erreat pleasure to hear Mr. Winston talk. He (Mention The Commonwealth.) is on an extended visit to his old home. the Best. Write for prices before purchasing. T. R. HUFFINES, Rocky Mount, N. C Furniture. Furniture. DO YOU WANT TO SAVE MONEY IN BUYING FURNITURE' IF SO CALL ON Kern's, Old Market Square, Norfolk. We nandle a laree and comnlata linn or. A orders promptly attended to. For bargains call on Kern's In Old Market Somre. 11 20 Cm 3 11 tl Norfolk, Va. "It is the Best on Earth." lhat is what Edwards and Parker. merchants of Plains, Ga,, say of Cham berlains Pain Balm, lor rheumatism. Tnm..nn a RHEUMATISM ! lame back, deep seated and muscular pains. Sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co. 7! o CO 53 The Boston Post, Boston, Mass., May 2, 1897. May Dear Sir : On my return from Brazil a few days ago, Mr. Reed, the pilot who brought our ship into Nor folk, recommended that I should try your i-nyto-iunine lor rheumatism. Although I had consulted the best phy sicians in Boston, and had tried all their standard remedies and baths, and al il t T u 1 -. taougn a nave uvea in inland moun A i J I . . . tains ana nave taken long voyages in tropics, in hope of being cured of the rheumatism that has tortured me for three years, I had found no relief be fore using the one bottle of Phyto- VifliHrrr tv7i t-- x "'ub i uureuaseu in ivonoiK. 1 am Wn1 fcy no meD cured, but I have received RALEIGH, N. C. For the TUCKER & CO Letter, Note and Bill Heads Envelopes, Statements, Cir culars, Blanks. Posters, Dodgers, Business Cards, Ship ping lags, GIRL Graduates! ies , u.ca, yaicuwa, mdla, Muslins 48 inches wide. 75 varrfr,nnv Books, and in fact anything you want in the printing line, you can get at ever woven. enough benefit to enourage me to send WhTot?M e J sh,eere8t Bonds you the enclosed amount, and ask vou Uoi, a 7Z7 "'T.I i ,,,uc'. yra, very sheer and guaranteed to to express me four more bottles to the m7teh making rLrT 1"1 eDJbro,aerie edges and Inserting to Editorial Department of the Boston matcn' maklDS a lIect commencement dress. Morning Post. Very truly yours, ANDREW McKENZIE. To D. C. Cannon, M. A., M. D., Manu- iactunng Pharmacist, Norfolk, Va. WHITE BATISTE MULLSa 45c, 50c, 60c per .yard. A cloth not" a: J www ACVLIU V1V' V.1 spring a great, and well ooc, m WEMAKE A SPECIALTY OF TYPE-WRITER PAPER. 40c, deserved WEDDING INVITATIONS, BALL AND SUPPER, TICKETS. Write for our prices before plac ing your order elsewheie. Farmers' Monthly Pay Roll Price on cent each. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED EVERY : TIME. (Trade mark.) A LITHIATED ALKALINE Elixir of PHYTOLACCA. Registered July 8, 1890. Is an internal remedy and a specific FOR RHEUMATISM MT ALL ITS FORMS. lieierence is made to the following persons :. Key. E. T-Sawver. Mr. Pelr i fit; . . ' . - onipp, oomractor and Builder : Mr. red Sartonus, Mr. W. C. Glover, Ex- mayor; but. a. x. Whitconb, all of ttiizaoetn city, is. u. Its sale is now, by actual count. -:- 5,000 BOTTLES -:- PRICE f I Per Bottle, at Casaea's PfsscHplioa Phsraacy, U. U. GANNON, M. A., M. D.. Pharmacist, 420 Bate St., .Norfolk, Va. 1 3 18 6m woven White Persian Lawns, 32 in. wide, prices llcrOcSc sJc fayarf"n OMtime' but this Spring a great and To complete the outfit we have Plain and MnriA T.ff u.-l. t Sheer Embroideries, Fans, Gloves, Saudak, &c, &c mbhoiaB Lace' Samples sent and a s-npnini to graduating classes. Correspondence Solicited. . Cut out and send this advertisement to us with your order. 413m f. 1 U S. TUCKEB & CO. TROTTER BROTHERS, -UENERAL Commission -:- Merchants. rUUL1Kr' EGGS, BUTTER AND ALL COUNTRY PRODUCE. Wholesale Dealers in .bruits and "VeeretahW Highest Market Prices-Prompt Returns. Rete,ow,. ,. Commercial Agencies. J " " " No, 34 Roanoke Dock, NORFOLK, VA.
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