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SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. D AVID BELL, Attorney at Law, ENFIELD, N. C. Practices in all the Courts of Hali fax and adjoining counties and in the Supreme and Federal Courts. Claims collected in all parts of the State. f. A. DUNN, ATTORXE Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices wherever his services are required. JJR. W. J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, Enfield, N. C. Office over Harrison's Dra? Store. dward L. TEAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. W Money Loaned on Farm Lands. 0WARD ALSTON, Attorney-atLaw, LITTLETON, N. C. JjG. C A. WHITEHEAD, DENTAL Surgeon, i "': -' , Takboro, N. C. SCOTLAND NECK STEAM YE WORKS aounxixQ goods a (specialty Get Price list. Address iiTUXD Xeck SieamD Co. v Scotland Neck N. C New and Pretty Sil verware 6 h aid XvSL 5"st received the largest n5S?BM shipment ot silver- BmrSiTS toour customers. am!ickl Dishes ; Orange. Co. MeatTRvdi fcPn8i Oyster, Frui other bm; "J? XjaQies Wlth mmmm W TTT1 H H E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. Xm. flew Scries Vol. 2. TEE EDITOR'S LEISUEE EOUBS. Foists and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. Richmond now has a free house to ) house system of mail delivery. You mail your letters from your home, pur chase stamps at home, and have all your mail brought to your front door. This is progress for this most enter prising and progressive Southern city. Ben Tillman, the "pitchfork Sena tor" from South Carolina, may be rough, angular and all that, but he can deal some withering cuts in repartee. He' may not lay claim to much polish but he has an originality all his own, and he uses it frequently with telling effect. Trucking and berry interests in East ern Carolina have been very satisfacto ry this season. A small farmer near Aurora is said to have made $1,500 al ready on his truck farm. The truckers of this region are hampered by heavy freight rates. The competition in ship ping is not sufficiently sharp. We need more competition stronger com petition at some points and when we get it truckers will make more money and make a greater success of their business. Perils at sea are much more trying than eyen the most horrible details can impress upon us. The case of the Aden off the island of Socrota . near the east ern coast of Africa June 9th. is a re markable one. For seventeen days those of the passengers and crew who were not washed overboard, waited and almost fasted the while in the cabin ; below before any assistance came. They were compelled to deal out their scanty rations carefully, and thought perhaps every day would be the last. Finally' deliverance came through the Indian government steamer Mayo. A certain district of Florida was swept by a destructive tornado last September, and the sad news has gone out recently that the inhabitants of that district are greatly suffering. They have been compelled to ask for outside aid. North Carolina has been signally blessed all through her history. We do not remember ever to have heard of any region of the State asking for help from any cause, except that mem orable meeting at Halifax a few years ago which wished the Governor to call a special session of Legislature to issue bonds for the county's relief. We ney er have felt proud ol that proceeding. Wonder who in the county does now? The news has gone out through the press of the State that the commis sioners of Chatham have refused to grant liquor license to any one in the county. We have not seen any state ment as to their authority for it. The average board ot county commission ers is mighty shaky on the liquor ques tion ; so much so that only one or two such boards in the State have - made any effort to test the matter as to whether or not they are compelled to grant licenses to all who apply with proper recommendation. But the ac tion of the Chatham county board opens this question : If the commis sioners ot Chatham county may refuse to grant liquor license, why may not the' commissioners in all the other counties of the State do likewise? Charles Dickens, in' his "American .Notes," eays some very pointed things about the spitting habit of Americans as he saw it when he visited this coun try. One is reminded of bis strictures on the habit by the discussion in some of the papers about the laws enacted against it. In Philadelphia there is a prohibition against spitting on pave menta, in street cars and public build ings. "'..It is taking shape in Asheville, too, we believe. Well, it seems to some like an in fnngement on personal privilege to say where a man shall or shall not spit ; but there is room for some improve ment. Men spit too much any way. It a man sees a woman constantly spitting he becomes disgusted. How about it when the woman sees a man doing the ft SCOTLAND SPECKED APPLES SUCH ABE ALL LOAFEES. POOR BEGGARS AND RICH IDLERS THE SAME. Some Bamfcling Thoughts. BY "NEMO." (Copyrighted by Dawe & Tabor.) Like a specked apple in a barrel of good ones, is an idler in a community of workers ; powerful to produce a similar condition in others and that only. Loafers are enemies to society, for they do not suffer the loss ot moral back-bone alone, but they flash the dis covery before their fellows that it is possible to scramble through the world without much effort. As Mrs. Jose phine Shaw Lowell says : "The world is divided into two great classes, not the rich and the poor, but the workers and the idlers." The frowsy beggar of sturdy frame whining at your door, and the child of the wealthy, killing time in eyery conceivable fashion, belong in the same class. Dirt and daintiness, rags and respectability blend in one common downfall of ail that is best in human nature. The race has hitherto gained solely by the sweat of the brow in some form or another, and we who toil see no other way to assure further progress. But these easy-goers tell us, in effect, that we are fools ; and they are always gaining fresh listeners. You who are halting between two opinions, strong in capacity but weak in will, undeterminded whether to expend the minimum of effort in the world, or whether to giye of your capacity in full measure, be the gain'yours or not, let a toiler speak to you out of a full heart. May he be confounded who would persuade us away from work. It always has been a blessing in disguise, or, as Whittier says : "The curse of earth's morning Is the blessing of its noon." To work is to discover the happy, the healthful, the hopeful way through ife ; for definite labor puts the nerves at rest and quiets the feverish heart. If bowed down with sorrow, stricken because a beloved voice in silenced for- evermore ; Go, Work ! and the motions of daily duty will solace your spirit. If bewildered at the apparent confusion in the world, misery wnere there should be joy, crops of disappointment from a generous seeding of hope ; Go, Work ! and the concentration of purpose need ed by your duty will relieve your over strained brain, and a clearer under standing of the laws of life will be yours. The balance of the wide world's brain is kept by toil. With nothing to do and boundless time for thinking and puzzling over the mysteries of our end ing, we should become a universe of melancholic fatalists. But the rhythm of work constantly recurring seeps us wholesome-minded, just as the ebb and flow of the ocean purifies the world. Work is the anodyne for suffering. It is the great sanity idleness, the insan itylife. How much we loved the wondrous wand In childhood's story told, Which, waved by the magician's hand Turned everything to gold ! And changed the cottage mean and low Into a palace great, And made grimed Cinderella glow In robes of royal state. Yet we too have a magic wand, Which stranger changes shows, And makes the dreary desert sand To blossom like a rose. So let us lift our power on high : We may not, dare not shirk, And move the very earth and sky, By simple, honest work. Let it not be supposed that riches bring happiness. The owners are only happy if they have some definite duty in life. Many of the wealthy toil away under responsibilities that would crush the inexperienced. But the indolent among them are most miserable : the men out-of-sorts with themselves and their comrades, following evil to drown reflection and being of such little im portance to the world when they pass away-that they become nothing more than worthless names to occupy valua ble space on a head-stone ; the women, wrapped up in soul-shrinking ambi Hons and devoured by petty ; jealousies unworthy of humanity. They dress for dress' sake, having more worth without than there is within, and strut their little day like puppets on parade. No soul gets satisfaction' from that sort of life, any more than I the prodigal With the blood full of humors, the heated term is all the more oppressiye Give the system a thorough cleansing with Ayer's Sarsaparilla and a dose or two af Ayer's PUla, and you will enjoy Summer as never before in your me Just trv this lor once and youH never f H. For sale bv E. T. White- iMONWEA: "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. NECK, N. C THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1897. could find nourishment in husks. So spend no time pining; for a condition of ease that has more dangers than poverty. I tell you that I see more happiness in the faces ot shop-girls hurrying home from work, than in a whole room-full of idling women. The girls toil, rest, take their wages and look at the duty of life with an air of independence. But the idling fashionables are scarcely raised above the standard of a Turfci&h harem ; they haye been bartered for witn dowries, oougnt witn social pres tige, and then shut up to an objectless life of social inanities. Happier than they, and freer to choose a fitting mate, is the poorest child of toil, barefoot beneath the burning sun. r ' FOE OTHEES. - In aching thought I-pondered deep On life's mysterious maze, And whv the world must ever weep, The wicked prosper in his ways For ever. Asleep I fell, full wearily, Still gazing on the maze, And Io, an angel beckoned me To verdant heights light-touched by rays Of sunlight. And thence I saw the tangled web Stretched out in beauteous plan, And marked the sea of trouble ebb, Revealing there that man and man Were brothers. And 'neath the picture written clear, I read life s secret sign The one all-healing panacea The rule that makes each life divine "For others." Self Distrust and Failure. Spectator. Probably self-distrust is one of the readiest causes of failure. A man who however much he conceals the fact from observation, feels in bis heart of hearts that he is not capable of doing the work that he has undertaken, is al most sure to fail. Ordinary diffidence as to one's powers is quite another matter, and by no means a necessary impediment to success. Such nervous ness is often purely superficial, and merely means that the' anxiety to suc ceed is so great that it causes a reaction. Tbe dangerous self "distrust to which we are alluding is a much more nega tive quality, and generally has joined to it a strong strain of indifference. But when a man does not think he will succeed, and also is doubtful whether it is worth while to succeed, or rather whether it is not a matter of indiffer ence whether he wins or loses, failure is almost certain. This stultifying indifference to allure is much more widely spread than people generally imagine. Be cause failure seems to the average man so horrible, producing as it must, hu miliations and miseries, remorseful ieel- ngs and regrets of every kind, the av erage man can not imagine any Hu man being indifferent to it. Yet, as a matter of fact, there are men whose hearts become so indurated that they do not mind either failure or its conse quences. They would endure anything rather than rouse themselves to the painful effort of resisting the march of what they call fate. They will float with the stream or tide, but, come what may, they Will not row a stroke against either. Burns. The Ledger. Nothing is better for burns than the white of an egg. It excludes all air, thus easing the pain, and prevents in flammation. Several years since one of our children fell on his forehead against a very hot stove. The skin stuck to the stove, leaving a large, raw place, disfiguring him for life, as we supposed. We quickly broke an egg and applied the white of it several times to the burn, and . soon he was playing as if nothing had happened. We used the egg. occasionally for sev eral days. The burn soon healed, leav ing not the least sign of a scar. This has been used by us ever since, and we never tire of recommending it to others. Linseed oil is the next best remedy that we know of, and one Bhould never be without a bottle of it in the house, especially where there are children. Something to Depend On. Mr. James Jones, of the drug firm of Jones & Son, Cowden, III., in speaking of Dr. King's New Discovery, says that last witer his wife was attaked with La Grippe, and her case grew so serious that physicians at Camden and Pana cnnld do nothing-lor ner. it seemea to develop into Hasty ; Cosumption. Haveine Dr. Kings Kew Discovery in store, and selling lots of it, he took a bottle home, and to the surprise of all she beean to get better from fist dose, and half dozen dollar bottles cured her sound and well. Dr. King's New Dis enverv for Consumption, Coughs and Colds is guaranteed to do this good work. Try it. Free trial bottles at E. T Whitehead & Co's. Drag Store. BROAD ASSERTIONS. EXAGGERATES WOEDS AND PHRASES. All Too Meaningless. The following clipped from the Bib lical Recorder credited to Christian Neighbor, is a pretty true picture of many boys and girls as well as young men and young women : "I'm almost dead ! ' It is as hot as fire ; I've been more than a dozen miles after that colt." Andrew threw himself at full length on the lounge and wiped the perspira tion from his forehead. "Where did you go?" asked his fa ther. "I went over to Brigg's corner and back by the bridge." "That is less than a mile and a half. is it so very warm, Andyr it seems quite cool here." "No, not so dreadful, I don't suppose if l'd tane it moderate, but I ran like lightning and got heated up." "You started about five o'clock, my son and now it lacks a quarter ot six," said his father, consulting his watch. "Yes, sir, just three-quarters of an hour," answered Andrew, innocently. "Does it take lightning forty-five minutes to go a mile and a half?" "I didn't exactly mean that, father, but I ran all the way because I expect ed the whole town would be here to night to see my new velocipede," ex plained Andrew, reluctantly. "Whom did you expect, Andy ? What will you do with them all?" "Jim, Eddy and Tom told me that they'd be around after school, and I wouldn't wonder if Ike came too ; that's all." s "The population of the town is five thousand, and you expect three of them ; well, as you are very sick, I am glad no more are coming. You could not play with them all." "Sick !" cried Andrew, springing to his feet, "who says I am sick?" "Why, Andrew, you said you were almost dead ; doesn't that mean very sick?" "You're so particular, father about my talking, l aon t mean exacuy what I say, of course. I wasn't nearly dead, to be sure, but I did some tall running you bet. There was more than fifty dogs alter me, and I don't go much on dogs." "Quite a band of them. Where did they all come from ?" "There was Mr. Wheeler's sheep dog, and Rush's store dog, and two or three more, and they all made for me, and so I ran as fast as I could." "Five at the most are not fifty, An dy." "There looked to be fifty, anyway," replied Andy, somewhat impatiently. "Carter's ten acre lot was full of dogs making for me, and I guess you'd have thought there were fifty if it had been you." "Ten acres of dogs would be a great many thousands ; have you an idea how many?" Andrew did not like to calculate, for it occurred to him what a small space ten or fifteen thousand sheep would oc cupy when camping, and ten acres of dogs would be past calculation. "But," his father continued, "I know of no better way to break you ot the foolish habit of exaggeration than to tell the children the trouble you had in going after the colt. You ran like lightning, encountered ten acres of dogs which would be hundreds of thousands, traveled more than a dozen miles to get one and a half miles in a straight line, and expected to find five thousand people here to examine your new velocipede and when you reached home was nearly dead." . 'Please, don't, father ; the boys and girls will all laugh themselves to death and I won't exaggerate again if live to be as old as Methuselah." "Laugh themselves to death at a simple story like this! I hope not. But it will rather set them to watching their own manner of telling stories, so as to be sure they do not greatly over state things. Habit, my son, grows with vears. and becomes, in time, so deeply rooted that it will be impossible for you, when you become a man, w rfilte nlain. unvarnished facts, unless you check the foolish habit you in dulge in every day of stretching simple incidents into tbe most marveioas tales." Old People. Old people who require medicine to . 1 1 1 J nrlll finrt tfiA true remedy in Electric Bitters This medicine does not stimulate ana nnntjiin no whiflkev nor other intoxi cont, but acts as a tonic and alternative It acts mildly on tbe stomacn ana Dow els, adding strength and giving tone to this oreans. thereby aiding Nature in the performance, of the l- functions. tizer and aids digestion." Old people find it just exactly what they need. Price 50c. and $1.00 per bottle at E. T. Whitehead & Co'fl Drug Etore. rTT TTTT IUJLM. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Sji.oo. NO. 29 LITTLE FEET. Two little feet, so small that both may nestle In one caressing hand ; Two tender feet upon the untried bor ders Of life's mysterious land. Dimpled and soft and pink as peach tree blossoms In April's fragrant days. How can they walk among the briery tangles Edging tbe world's rough ways? These white, rose feet, along the doubt ful future, Must bear a woman's load : Alas ! since .woman has the heaviest burden, And walks tbe hardest road. Love for a time will make the path be- iore tnem AH dainty, smooth, and fair : Will cull away the brambles, letting only The roses blossom there. But when a mother's watchful eye is shrouded A way from sight of men, And these dear feet are left without her guiding, Who will direct them then ? How will they be betrayed, deluded, I'oor little untaught feet ? Into what dreary mazes will they wan- - der, What dangers will they meet? - Will they go stumbling blindly in the darkness Of sorrow's tearful shade, Or find the upland slopes of peace and beauty, Whose sunlights never fade? Will they go climbing up ambition's summit, The common world above : Or, in some nameless vale securely sheltered. Walk side by side with love? Some feet there - are who walk this world unwounded, And find but pleasant ways : - Some hearts there are to which this world is only A round of happy days But they are few. Far more there are who wander Without hope or friend, Who find their pathway filled with pains and losses. And long to reach the end. How shall it be with her, the tender stranger, Fair-faced and gentle-eyed, Before whose untaught feet tbe world's rude highway Stretches far and wide? But who may read the future ior our darling? We crave all blessings sweet, And pray that He who feeds the crying raven Will guide the baby's feet. J. M. S. in Richmond Dispatch. Singular Railway Incident. A singular incident that took place on the Central Vermont Railroad some time ago, says tbe New York Evening Post, shows how many conditions re quire to be observed in determining the existence of a very simple fact with scientific accuracy. One of the division superintendents of that road received repeated complaints that at a certain crossing tbe prescribed signals from the locomotive were omitted. The engin eers were reproved and warned Jthough they all protested that they had never neglected their duty. Finally, since, of course, tbe matter might prove a serious one at any time for the railroad, the superintendent determined to get his own evidence, and, privily station ing himself in a suitable position, he saw a locomotive approach and pass without whistling or ringing the bell. On that locomotive, however, there happened to be one of the railroad de tectives, who had made up his mind to look into the matter for himself, and who actually blew the whistle and rang tbe bell with his own hands. When the superintendent returned to write tbe discharge of the guilty engineer, he was confronted with the evidence of the detective. To end the matter, they both went to the spot and found that from a certain point they could see the puff of steam at the whistle and the beli la motion, bi i f.. heard no sound from either. An expert was called m, who recommended the removal of a piece of forest, which, being done, the signals became audible at tbe crossing. Professor Henry long ago showed that sounds may be heard by a person at a distance when they are inaudible to one nearer, and it is evidently neces sary for railroad officers to ascertain not only that signals are properly given, but that they are actually audible where they should be. FOB 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 colhc, and is the best remedy ior inarrnoea. . it win relieve the poor little sufferer imme diately. 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