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O The frequent business failures throughout the country do not speak well for the prosperity wave that was to strike the land soon after McKinley's election. " . Press and Printer states a clear truth in the following : "The size of a newspaper, like the voice of a fakir, may attract attention, but if size is its only merit the sheet will carry as little weight aean inflated bladder." MORE TO BOYS. THERE ARE STILL HARD BATTLES. HOW TO FIGHT THEM. The failure of that well-known Ral eigh firm, W. H. & R. S, Tucker, last week, was quite a surprise to the whole State. The firm was established in 1818, and has thus been doing business continuously for nearly eighty years, It was the best known business estab lishment of any kind in the State, and was widely known outside of the State. Its failure is a source of regret to friends of the firm throughout the country. Some Rambling Thoughts. BY un- a few Leprosy practically has been known in this country. But days ago it developed that there was a genuine case of tne dread and loath some disease in Johns Hopkins hospit al in Baltimore. The lady who is so afflicted was carried there for treatment before it was known that she bad lep rosy. Arrangements were at once made to isolate her and for special treat ment of the case. It ia supposed that she contracted the disease while abroad cently. The Charlotte Observer evidently thinks that institutions are on the qui . t J - 1 vive ior sometning new ami original. Here is what it thinks, for instance, of the commencement invitations it has received this year : The engraved invitations to com mencement exercises have a peculiar style every year. This year they are highly stylish. Xearly all that the Ob server has received haye tne appear ance of having been steeped in a solu tion of mutton suet, and there lingers about them a smell of tallow candles. Perhaps this is to give them a sort oi flavor of the student's mid-night oil. The South has done much toward public school education since the war, however much some may urge it has done, and is still doing, practically nothing. It has been given out through the press that a prominent Southern minister has recently declared that "the sixteen Southern States are to-day pay inar as much for public schools as the British Parliament votes every year for the public school system of the British Islands between $20,000,000 and $30,- 000,000. And he adds that since the war the South has expended "$250,000, 000 of its own money tor education $75,000,000 of it for the children of the colored people." so woman in The times may be out of joint with many people, and we rather think it but if all the world were like that Washington whom we tell about below, there would be more sun shine on the earth and more glad hearts in the earth. A Washington special to the New York World recently said : Commissioner of Pensions Butter- worth promoted a woman in his ofhee Saturday who surprised him. She said : "Mr. Commissioner, there is a woman who sits beside me who merits this more than I do. She is a splendid clerk and supports her sick sister and child. Her necessities are greater than mine. I want to ask a favor of you. The commissioner thought another promotion was being requested and got ready to gently refuse it, when his pe titioner continued : "I want to ask you if vou will let this other woman have my promotion and the increased salary until she le in better circumstances. Then we may exchange again. The request was granted. and Pretty Silverware the largest and hanI received --'c we ever offery u UI 8Uver ?meP,ckt n- f OUr stomers, and Mnr &Poons: Ovster "rVy, 0y8ter and 10ng8; Cres f FOR 0ER FIFTY YEARS 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 is tne best remedy lor uiarrnoea. it win relieve the poor little sufferer imme diately. Sold by Druggists in- every part of the world.. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sore and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Sootbins Syrup," and take no cth-r ?-:-'V- Xr ly. . (Copyrighted.) In last week's letter we talked of battles, those things you enjoy read ing about, but we only got as tar as telling you that you had to struggle with your brains against others, instead of with deadly weapons, like the men of former ages. That article had to do with fighting, fair and square in the open, just the sort of fighting a strong boy thinks to be honest. But we are not always able to choose the manner of our fighting. We may be quite willing to stand up and test our strength hand to hand with the enemy, but he may succeed in shutting us up in a city or a fortress in other words, he may besiege us, and then instead of the beautiful motion of marching troops deploying into line of battle and the excitement of aides-de-camps scattering in various directions, there is the silent, sullen waiting for assault, and the noise less work of the sappers as they en deavor to get where they can destroy the walls of the besieged with mines of gunpowder. , . .. Many of you ought to be able to re member the facts concerning the siege ot Yorktown how Washington and Lafayette carefully made their plans, threw up earth-works and with those as a means ot protection commenced to harass the defenders of the town ; then how by watching for the favorable mo ment they moved forward again and threw up a second line ot earth-works notwithstanding the enemy's guns were for a little time shooting down the length of the trenches ; and finally how Cornwall Is cut off on the water side by the French and surrounded by the hand forces, gave up the defence and sur rendered over 7,000 men as prisoners. In your histories you can find numbers of other sieges described, some of them lasting week after week ; like that of Sebastopol, in the Crimean War, which scarcely ended in a year. Sieges call for great courage, both on the part of those shut in with starvation and thirst and death coming nearer and nearer, and also on the part of the besiegers who are sometimes slaughtered in heaps as they attempt to enter the town through some breach in the walls. I don't like this idea ot an enemy crawl ing, creeping, burrowing along until he is ready to spring up suddenly and strangle power and life out of you. I expect you do ntt either. But if the people shut in have plenty of food and a good supply of water, if their walls are too thick to be broken by cannon balls, if they can make a sudden rush and break up the defences of the be siegers or if they can burrow under ground and meet the timnes of the enemy with countermines there is not much to fear. Yet there remains one danger with which even strong forces sometimes have to contend ; the danger within from a traitor, who will tell sec rets to the enemy or open the gates to , them. We can learn from battles of the past to look for battles now. This week I want you to remember that sieges have not come to an end even in our peace ful country ; and that you, small, young, unknown to me, are in a state of siege ; not with cannons nor with battering rams, but with temptations. If you will follow me a little while I will show you just how closely you re semble a fortress that has enemies en camped around it to starve it out and destroy'it. A fortress can Usually be attacked in more ways than one. So can you, through your brain, your vanity, and the appetites of your body. In a fortress you cannot choose the manner In which your enemy shall attack you. He will seek the weakest point and the defence must be made right theie. It would be a poor de fender who massed his troops remote tmm the Doint attacked. So if the enemies of your character come tempt ing you to conceit because you know more than others, it is no use for you to say in defence that you never eat too much, because conceit concerning knowledge has nothing to do with overloading the stomach. Then again If another time you are tempted to be greedy, what defence is it to say that you are not conceited? If also some day yon ere tempted to say yulgar words to boys or girls it is no defence to declare that you stood at the head of your class ; and so on, I could multiply the number of temptations that may assail you from day today, all of them different "and all of them besieging jWUICiOMtff. ..... .;-.. Did we not say something about the advantage of food and water in the fortress? The besieged boy too can hold out long, if he have tjhe body well stored with strength, and the mind fill ed to over-flowing with pure thoughts that yanquish impure ones. And we must go back 'to sieges in order to Illustrate a further point to you. What did we say was the greatest danger inside a strong fortress? A traitor ! So I want to tell , you that all the enemies that come against you are not nearly so dangerous sjs your will. Your character has very St tie chance of victory if your will joins with the temptations for then you! will yield to naughtiness and find the fortress of your character taken. " i I do not intend to seem like preach ing a sermon to you, so I shall close with just one more idea that is sure to be understood by you. How is it with the young soldiers who go through the hardship of a siege and come out vic torious ? Are they not wiser and less likely to run away? ;Are they not stronger and less inclined to doubt their own ability than they vere when they were young untrained recruits? Just so is it with you. When you have re sisted and come off victorious you are stronger at that point (than you were before. Struggling with temptation to do wrong is ieally the bpst thing for us in making us pure and vigorous in character. This I want you to remem ber the next time the impulse comes to do something that you have learned is wrong. A Little Girl's Self-Sacrificing Deed. TRADES WITH NATURE- SO DOES THE FA! iMEB And Nature is Thoroughly Honest San Francisco Call. i She lived in Placer county, not far from where the pretty town of Auburn now stands, ior it happened many years ago, in the early , Ws, and I ex pect that but few now residing there have any recollections of the affair. The family, consisting offather, a min er, her mother and little brother, dwelt n a small shanty erected under cover of a convenient ledge. The shanty was a miserable structure oi two rooms, but it held what many a grander dwelling failed to contain, a loving household. The mother lay sick with the -fever, and Carmen, then a girl of twelve, per formed the drudgery of the house. Her little brother, a curly-headed romp, of five, was Carmen's great responsibility. The father was away from early morn ing until late at night at his work, and so the little hands of twelve found plenty to do. In common with the custom of miners, the father kept a store of giant powder in the house, which in the present case was contain ed in a sack placed in an old wooden box that stood at the foot ot the bed where lay the sick mother. The upper part of the shanty, under the sloping board roof, was utilized as a storage place for old dunage. One night the father was absent in the mine. By some means the shanty took fire, probably from the cracked and defective adobe chimney. Carmen awoke to find that the roof was afire and sparks dropping down. Springing up she loudly cried to awaken her mother and Tommy, but the little boy became frightened and hid his head beneath the covers of his bed. Carmen sprang to lift him from the bed, when she saw shower of sparks falling on the powder box. Recognizing the awful danger, she attempted to leave the child for the moment and carrjrout the powder, but in her excitement she caught her toot in the overhanging bedclothes and fell to the floor, break ing her thigh bone. Unable to arise, the brave girl crawled to the box of powder and, drawing herself up, cover ed the box with her body. The mother had by this time succeeded in getting out of bed and getting outside the now furiously burning shanty, and managed to take with her little boy. The cries of Carmen :' "Oh, take Tommy out, won't you !" turned for a time the mother's thought from her daughter's danger. The fire had aroused some of the neighbors who speedily ran to the burning shanty and ent what aid they could. Carmen was discovered and removed. Her rescuers found her- almost buried beneath a mass of burning cinders, her back frightfully burned. Tender bands bore her to a neighboring shanty, where all that could be done to alleviate her suf ferings was eagerly bestowed. But human aid came too late. The brave little spirit lingered until the following day and then departed for a brighter land. It was not Known until arter sne had recovered consciousness, a short time before she died, that she had broken her leg. Her last words were: "Kiss me, Tommy, dear ; I've saved you, and I'm so happy." Buckingham's Dye for the whiskers is the ,. best, handiest, safest, surest, cleanest, most economical and satisfac tory dve ever invented. It is the gen tleman's favorite. For sale by E.' T. Whitehead & Co., Scotland Neck. N. C'-,,"..; 1. ' 'J . .. ......... - " David Starr Jordan, President of the Leland Stanford, Jr., University, in the National Advocate. ' One of the most disquieting features of the social condition of our times is a rush of young men to the cities. Re suiting from this is the weakness and insensibility of the farming population as compared with the same class half a century ago. Steadiness of national character goes with firmness of foothold on the soil. We may well look with alarm on a condition in which men of wealth and power shall be gathered in the cities, while the farms are left to the weak and inefficient or to the peas ants of other nations. As matters are, the cities are great destroyers ot human life. We have not learned properly to govern them ef fectively, and every city is full of hu man failures, results of misdirected ef fort. A tour of the principal streets, halls and meeting places on Sunday evening in any great city will show how terribly true this is. Certainly one-fourth of the population of such a city as San Francisco for example has no real business there. These people are doing nothing effective for them selves or helpful to others, and the con dition of the other three-fourths, and most likely their condition, would be distinctly improved if these misfit per sons wouUr go back to the farms. No one can succeed in city or coun try unless he is able or willing to do some one thing well and stick to it. Because the life of the country is sim pler and more honest, it is easier for a man ot moderate ability to fit into it. I call it more honest, because the farm life deals with nature at first hand, while the city life deals with the shift ing relations of men. "The farmer trades with nature through no middle-man. Nature is as honest as eternity, and she never fails to meet the just dues of those who have claims against her." In the city, opportunities to gratify ambition are more numerous and great er than in the country. But opportu nity comes only to the man who can make use of it. For a .man who can do important things and can do them well, the city will always furnish some thing worthy to do. Hence the success of thousands of men who have gone to the cities with their worldly goods on their backs and no capital but their brains. But the great majority of those who leave the farms are out of this type. They have not learned to do anything well, least of all anything the people of the cities want. Hence the failure of those who go to cities without capital of any kind, or with capital of any oth er kind than brains. The great obstacle in the way ot the effective workingman is not organized capital , it is inefficiency. It is the great.crowd of those who can do noth ing well, and whose presence causes a general scramble whenever there is any work to be done. Capitalists could and would double the wages of labor if they were assured of intelligent, effect ive and loyal service. Brains and heart are the only servants that a man can afford to pay for. If you cannot fur nish one or the other of these, there is no help for you. You cannot live by the work of your hands. Least of all can you do this in a city, where com petition is severe, and where three men are struggling for the chance to do the work of one. There is no doubt that the conges tion of the cities is in part the effect ot unwise legislation. We have used ev ery effort to be something more than a nation of farmers, and in this effort we haye almost ruined our farms. But legislative action is not the main cause ot the congestion of cities. The other causes are bringing about the same re sults in all civilized nations. Even Rome has a "real estate boom," an un fortunate condition which arises as the people crowd into the capital. It is not clear what the end will be or how the evil will find its remedy. But this we may say to every farmer's son : You have your own life to make. In the country you are sure of your ground. You will get what you deserve, while your future will not be ruinous. Do not go the city the country needs you. If you go with nothing to give that the city cares for, you will find your self cast aside. Brains the city wants and will pay for and devour. Loyalty A healthy appetite, with perfect di gestion and assimilation, may be secur ed by the use of Ayers Pills. They cleanse and strengthen tne whole ali- mentory canal and remove all obstruc tions to the natural functions of either sex, without any unpleasant : effects. For sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co., of service will be recognized and val ued in this world or any other. Hand work pure and simple, without skill or pride in it, commands no price in the market. There is no chance about this. The results are as sure as fate. If you do poor things poorly, you will always be poor. What vou can do a bucket of coal and a bucket of water, guided by a thimbleful of brains will do more effectively. Whenthe time snail come that each workman can use bis power to the best advantage, we shall have an end to the labor problem. The final answer to the labor problem is that each shall solve it for himself. When you have solved the labor problem for yourself and are ready with the answer, then you can go to the iity, and wherever you go you will find the success you deserve. It all men waited-as you should wait before rush ing to the cities, we should have no labor problem, no problem of munici pal government ; and nothing to fear from the congestion of the towns. Learn to do something well. It will make a man of you, and wherever he goes a man will find that he is needed. "FATHER, TAKE MY HAND." Rfeii No. U7. WWte Enameled Steel Bed, solid brass trimmings. We have them 64 In. wMe, 48 in. wide. 43 In. wide and no in. wiae. au auea axe w in. Special Prloe (any alae) . ,. .75 (orders promptly filled.) Everywhere local dealers are at unkind tunga about .us. Their eua tomers are tired of paying them double prices; our Immense (free) 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, Springs, etc. The catalogue costs you nothing and we pay all post age. Get double value for your dollar by dealing with the manufac turers. N. JULIUS HINES S SOU, BALTIMORE, MP. "The way is dark, my Father ! Clould on cloud . is gathering thickly o'er my head and loud . The thunders roar above me. See, I stand Like one bewildered ! Father, take my hand, And through the gloom, lead safely nome Thy child. "The day goes fast; my Father! and the ni&rht Is drawing darkly down. My faithless sight Sees ghostly visions. Fears, a sceptial band. Encompass me. Oh, Father, take my nana, And from the night lead up to light, Thy child." A Railroad Above the Clouds. Selected. There are several places in the world where the iron horse actually climbs up mountain sides to spots which are situated far aboye the clouds. In Peru they have built a railway over one of the most elevated ribs of the Andes, and in Switzerland the steam engine snorts and puffs around and up the sides of peaks where it was formerly considered hazardous for a sure-footed Alpine climber to attempt to worm his way. The engineers of the United States have been equally as enterprising as those of Europe and the Spanish repub lics of South America. They have proved there is no mountain too broad to be tunneled or too high for them to send a locomotive to the summit. The plateau on the top of Pike's Peak was thought to be almost as inaccessible to human beings as are the canals of Mars to mundane navigators. To-day all is changed. Since 1891 the locomotive has made its regular trips up the sides of the "Pride of the Rock ies," seemingly doing it with as much ease as the "regulor" makes the journey from the Union station at Kirkwood. At one time the Pike's Peak "cog" was the most elevated railroad in the world, its upper terminus being at a spot 14,147 feet above the beach line at Galveston, Texas. Since the Peru vian railway, mentioned above, was built the Pike's Peak "elevated" tkes a back seat. It is still a wonder in en gineering, however, being nine miles long (high), and having several grades of 25 per cent. The engines used on this queer railroad weigh forty tons. Be Decided. Durham Qun. The man who attempts to carry wa ter on both shoulders will be sure to spill out of both buckets. There is in this world no neutrality. Neutrality is utterly meaningless, and a "neutral" man who falls has neither country, kin dred or principle. Better fall fighting for a bad cause than be counted among the milk-and-water crowd of nonenti ties. Neutrality is nonentity. There is character in defending one's opinion, but the man who is "non-committal." or who "currys favor" with every one, neyer counts for much in the battle of life. It is the bold man, whose posi tion is felt and whose work t ills for good in the world. Be decided. Stands at the Head. . Aug. J. Bogel, the leading druggist of Shreveport, La., says : "Dr. King's New Discovery is the only thing that cures my cough and is the best seller I have." J. F. Campbell, merchant of Safford, Ariz., writes : "Dr. King's New Discovery is all that is claimed for it , it never fails, and is a sure cure for consumption, coughs and colds. I can not say enough for its merits." Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption. coughs and colds is not an experiment. It has been tried for a quarter of a cen. tury , and today stands at the head. It never disappoints. Frea trial bo&a At E. T. Wfcit:-?-i 60tf Err? Zion BRICK ! HAVING INCREASED MY FACIL ITIES I AM NOW PREPARED TO FURNISH DOUBLE QUANTITYTOF 'BRICK. Also will take contract to furnish lots from 50,000 or more anywhere within 50 miles of Scotland Neck Can always furnish what, you want. Correspond ence and orders solicited d. a. nADivir, 1-10-95-ly Scotland Neck, N. C. MENTION THIS PAPER. TILLERY Dining Hall, FOR WHITES. Meals at all hours for 25 cents. 3 25tf JACOB D.HILL, Tillery, N. C. Compare our Work with that of our Competitors. ESTABLISHED IN 1865. (HAS. H. WALSH. Steam Marble d Gracits WORKS, Sycamore St., Petersbuiig, Va. Monuments, Tombs, Cemetery Curb ing, &c. All work strictly first class and at Lowest Prices. Jim I ALSO FURNISH IRON fca"" umm X FENCING, VASES, &G. ILJ 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 MONUMENTS AND AND GENERAL MARBLE AND GRANITE WORK AT Lowest prices. Write for designs and prices. T. R. HUFFINES, , Rocky Modnt, N. C. (Mention The Commonwealth.) 3 11 tf. Vis: BiU Feails iciiay. INCORPORATED 18ft. A BOARDING & DAY SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. FULL CORPS OF TEACHERS. Careful instruction in every depart ment. Music department under a skillful musician lrom New England Conservatory of Music. Elocution and Physical Culture under a student from New England Conservatory College of Oratory and Emerson School of Orato ry, Boston. Terms very moderate. For further particulars address the principal, MISS LENA H. SMITH, J 0 tf , ' Scotland N-. N O, i i 'I 1 J. It." 4 ;- -it t. ' :S-it j m -..."I. r ' ',f -4 " 4 'A . ( .'J 'A .5 i 'I
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