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VOL. XHL New Scries Vol. 2.
SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1897.
NO. 39
THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS,
Feints and Paragraphs of Things
Present, Past and Future.
Practices in all the Courts of Hali-
h and adjoining counties and in the
IlITWnP -.nrl Moral Paii 1 .. : t-
feted in all parti? of the State.
J A. DON,
ATTORN E Y-A T-L A IF.
Scotland Neck, X. C.
feces wherever his services are
SJired.
p. J. WARD,
Surgson Dentist,
Enfield, N. C.
sver Harrison's Druf Store.
pARD L. TEA VIS,
frney md Counselor at Law,
HALIFAX, N. C.
3liuy Loaned on Farm Lands.
ALSTON, .
Attorney-at-Law,
LITTLETON, N. C.
X FURCERSOX.
ATTOEY-at-LAW,
, HALIFAX, N. C.
C-A-WHITEHEAD,
Jllta- nciiTii
1JLI1 1 HL
Surgeon,
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Tarboro, X. C.
Pretty Sil
verware
The Patron and Gleaner, published
at Rich Square, says that in the terri
torv between Roanoke and Chowan
rivers, there will not be more than
half crop gathered. It says also that
there were larger quantities of fertilizers
used in that territory this year than
ever before. All this brings about
serious state of affairs for that section
with cotton falling and wheat rising.
Our contemporary wisely suggests
that the farmers sow clover and small
grain which can be gathered early in
the spring and give time for some other
crop, it urges the sowing ot wheat
which we think is wise indeed.
There is now considerable comment
on the tact that wheat flour and corn
meal are mixed and sold as flour.
Some mill people seem to have learn
ed a secret whereby they can mix the
two to a certain degree without detec
tion. And those who know about the
manipulation are not willing to make
known the proportion in which meal
and flour may be mixed and escape de
tection.
Perhaps a large quantity of flour in
all the markets has corn meal in it.
The Southern farmer can avoid this
by raising both his own corn and wheat
and having it all ground at home.
Near Emporia, Kansas, on the Santa
Fe railroad there was a terrible train
wreck last week. Three engines explo
ded. Two were pulling the Mexico
and California express which met the
fast mail going east. The accident was
caused by an undelivered train order.
A dozen persons were Killed. Hon.
William Jennings Bryan was on a rear
Pullman car 400 feet from the engines.
He was not at all hurt. Mr. Bryan,
said the reporters, was one of the no
blest men present in his kind offices
to the wounded. He had spoken
that day at a county fair at Burling-
ame, and one wounded man in the
wreck Baid to him : "I went to hear
you epeak to-day ; I am now dying and
want to shake your hand and say God
bless you. If you possibly can, Mr.
Bryan, get me a drink of water." Mr.
Bryan got the water and performed
other kind offices to the sufferers.
THE SCHOOL-ROOM.
OUR TEACHERS' WORE.
A NATION'S FUTURE.
Some Rambling Thoughts.
BY NEMO.
Cmi Tived the Ingest
?Sver o? "J'Pment ot silver
V to our customers.
5 e; Tomat, Jelly and
CPtMiS Lad,es'with
Whitehead & Co.
The New York Voice, a strong tem
perance paper, has sent out some ques
tions to chiefs of police over the conn
try as to how much the liquor business
has to do with lawlessness and crime.
Here are the questions :
"First. In your opinion, what pro
portion of the business which comes to
your department arises from the use of
intoxicating liquor?
"Second. -If the saloons of your city
were closed, and liquor selling and
liquor drinking should cease, is it your
opinion that the police expenses of
your city would be reduced? If so,
how much would they be reduced?"
From the 255 replies that were re
ceived, It was learned that 63 per cent,
of the crime in the cities comes from
the saloon. Here are the reports from
North Carolina : From Charlotte the
answer was that 66f per cent, of the
police business came from the saloon
power ; from New Berne, 50 per cent. ;
from Raleigh 50 ; from Winston 80 ;
from Salisbury 75 ; from Henderson
and Concord, where there were no
saloons, only 10 per cent. ,
These figures, if true, and we see no
reason why we should doubt them,
show us what a curse is the liquor
traffic in the cities and towns, and it is
certainly correspondingly great in the
country. The wonder is that the good
people of the land do not suppress all
other differences until they can get rid
of this monster evil and then turn at
tention to improvements that would
mean something. Take all the liquor
curse from this land and there would
be fewer grumblers and many a place
now little better than a den would be a
fairly comfortable home.
Whiskers that are- prematurely gray
or faded should be colored to prevent
the look of age, and Buckingham's Dye
excels all others jto coloring brown or
b'ack.
(Copyrighted by Da we & Tabor.)
TO TEACHERS AND PURPOSEFUL PEO
PLE : That faint little tap on your
desk for "attention" at the first session
this term, will, to some of you, sound
as ominous as the tolling of a death-
knell. It will conjure up the pleasures
of the weeks ot rest, and then they will
all vanish under a lurid cloud out of
whose gray body will peep visions of
children who insist on beine stunid
when the superintendent appears, or
who are triumphantly mischievous
when your back is turned and strange
ly angelic when you wheel round to de
tect them. Really, tnere is little won
der if your heart sinks within you, as
you remember that to keep up the
standard of the school you will need to
be alert, not once a week, but every
hour of every day. I can quite under
stand a feeling akin to nausea, when
the familiar backs of the old familiar
books tell you that, this year as last,
you will have to go over the self-same
simple lessons to a new set of simple
isteners. Then, if you are a woman a
little feeling of angry protest will arise ;
for you know full well that the average
man of your town, however free he
eels to point out your defects, would
prefer a week of the hardest toil to one
day of attempting; the control of twenty
of your sprites ; and, if you are a male
teacher, criticised for your severe dis
cipline, you need no telling that no
mother out of a captious ten would be
able to govern such a heaped-together
amily except by free and indiscrimi
nate shippings.
Altogether you feel a little gloomy as
the duties begin to burden your shoul
ders again.
But do not undo the good of your
vacation by fretting and fuming. To
a certain extent the laborious character
of your work is recompensed, in that j
your rest time is longer and your hours
of labor shorter than is vouchsafed to
the general run of brain-workers. Take
courage from that, and stand up to du
ty in your chosen sphere as bravely as
your favorite historic character stood
up to his. But as for yearning for full
appreciation, sweep the temptation
behind you else you will be unhappy
continually. No good work U ever ful
ly appreciated. This you probably be-
ieve in theory, but your difficulty
comes in adapting the theory to a fact,
and that fact yonr own career. It is
painful to discover that you are the
living counterpart of the man who fell
among thieves people of your com
munity pass you by without bestowing
any more than a thought on you, and
it is left to me, a distant and impover
ished Samaritan, to pour in the oil and
the wine upon your troubled spirit.
We expect children to place them
selves where their heads can be patted
but well-balanced men and women nev
er do this. I will even dare to suggest
that if a hail of your good efforts were
fully praised, your head would be turn
ed, and your heart too, away from the
very things that first brought you ap
plause. Not a tithe ot allthe good
worK of life is done where men may
place garlands of esteem upon it ; if it
were so, how would our bridges or our
houses weather a single storm. Out-
of-sight work counts in the great bal
ance sheet ot the Almighty ; if you
are tempted to doubt it, say it over and
over again until you reach the point of
glorying in the doing of a duty though
no witness be near. The faith you
demand of the scholar, who is urged
by you to believe that though his
well-done task is wiped from the black
board, it remains part of his mental
gain that faith must be yours, im
pelling you to a royal giving up of
yourself to your work, though every
shred and particle of effect seem to
utterly disappear.
THE HIDDEN LIFE.
A gentle flower in the forest grew,
Where never a soul its sweetness knew ;
And its upturned eyes with beauty
bright
Ne'er glowed with responsive love s de
light. It withered and died, unmarked, un
sung, ,
When low in the sky the pale sun
hung;
Still the wild-birds called on joyous
wing,
So its life, seemed but a wasted thing.
Before going on a sea-voyage or in
to the country, be sure and put a box
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Yet the wind had taken its pure sweet
breath
And borne it away to a room ot death,
Where it glided in with the setting
sun,
And calmed the soul of a dying one ;
For it banished of unbelief thewraith,
And restored to the soul a child-like
faith,
As it whispered the words which an
gels know ;
"Consider the lilies how they grow !"
You have nodded your head when
your, beloved Emerson wrote about
ideals and their values. But bowing
the head is not bowing the heart, and
it is heart-worship alone of an ideal in
life, that will make you walk buoyant
ly and triumphantly the solitary path.
Teachers are of all the people most
miserable it their horizon is bounded
by anything less than jbelpfulness to
the nation. The four Walls ot your
room too often seem to 'shut you off
from the world ; some weary day, dear
woman, when nerves have been strain
ed almost to the screaming point, and
you, dear men, when to yield to anger
would be joy, close your eyes on the
post ot duty that for a moment seems
dreary and let your imagination run
free. Then will you quickly see that
you are not called to carve insensate
blocks, but to "lead forth" individuali
ties ; that the children who under your
care grow to a knowledge of themselves
are potential elements in the national
life ; that the work you do is being du
plicated in hundreds of thousands of
other little school-houses, and that the
aggregate of all the work done is mak
ing or marring our national future.
Does the bricklayer ask for admiration
over one brick well laid in the wall of
some towering building? No, he goes
on to another, being careful to align
his work to the work of all the rest !
You too, unpraised and yet content, be
cause possessed by j'our ideal, will go
on with your good work, transmitting
the dull clay of duty into golden op
portunity. The routine of arithmetic
and the strange mouthings of phonics?
will then be changed from items in a
scheme of teaching, to valued portions
of our national bulwarks.
Let no man despise, you for good
reason ; glorify your office ; try to rise
to the demands of the age ; work for a
twentieth century to dawn on a gener
ation of right-thinking children ; hav
ing done all, gulp down that clamoring
cry for praise, and be content to have
lived as a conscious guardian of untold
treasures. The reward is ever -from
within.
COAX THE COTTON.
ABOUT LABOR.
THE LABORER IS WORTHY.
Honest Toil Commended.
If they want the good times
In meadow an' in street,
Jest let 'em coax the cotton
To a merry waltz" with wheat,
An' all will be forgotten,
An' times be hard ter beat ;
So, play a tune fer cotton
In a ripplin' round with wheat
- F. L. Stanton.
Avoid Trifling Disputes.
A woman wiose goodness and ten
derness make her loved by all Avho
know her once said to an impatient
girl fiiend : '
"My dear, learn to allow others to be
mistaken. It is a difficult lesson to
acquire, but it is one that will make
you, and all who come in contact with
you, happier."
This wise advice often occurs to me
while listening to discussions and heat
ed arguments upon utterly unimportant
matters. Suppose John says he left
home this morning for his office at
8 :30, and Mary knows that the hands
of the clock pointed to 8 :45, as he clos
ed the front door behind him. Why
should she tell him of his mistake?
Nobody likes to be told that he is
wrong, and few of us will believe it
ourselves when we are told ot it. When
there is no principle involved, it is
wiser, gentler and kinder to let a trifl
ing error pass unnoticed. If the friend
has bought the material for a portiere,
and has had the curtain made by a
seamstress, under the fond conviction
that she has saved money by so doing,
why tell her that she could have
bought a pair of ready-made portieres
for what she paid for the material and
making of one? It will only lessen her
enjoyment in the property and do
neither her nor you any good. When
a mistake is made and past changing,
let it alone. It is a great undertaking
to try to right the world, and those
whose temerity permits them to at
tempt the task should be careful that
the so-called righting is not in itself a
mistake. Exchange.
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One advantage of taking Ayer's Sar
saparilla to purify the blood is that
you need not infringe upon your hours
of labor nor deny yourself any food
that agrees with you. In a word, you
are not compelled to starve or loaf,
while taking it. These are recommen
dations worth considering.
Tarboro Southerner.
In a paper which ought to have
known better and which should have
no place in our civilization till it learns
better, there appeared recently the fol
lowing piece of rubbish :
"Labor is a penalty, imposed by
crime or some violation of law, divine
or human. It degrades, be
cause those who labor, in the sense of
hard work with the hands, are ranked
in the social scale as the lowest class.
Labor id for the slave : and
the South was right in peeking to ded
icate a separate and inferior race to
work unfit for free men."
The dignity of labor is an expression
used for a variety of purposes and about
which there clusters a good deal of
nonsense. The man who works with
his hands is not, on that account, any
better or worse than the man who
employs him and works mainly with
his head. We are all of us, in large
part, creatures of circumstance, fitted
to our several stations by an ordering
of events which we cannot always or
often control. If every man could start
in life on even terms with every other
man in the struggle for wealth and
privilege there might be some ground
to assume a natural superiority on the
part of those who succeed and a cor
responding inferiority on the part of
those who become hewers of wood and
drawers of water. But such a condi
tion does not and cannot exist and we
must take things as we find them,
making ourselves contented or unhappy
according to our several dispositions.
Each man has, also, his own limitations
within which he can move freely, and,
if he pleases, contentedly. If he be
one who labors with his hands he
must continue to so work it he fail to
show a capacity and disposition to do
what are ca'.led better things. But he
is not thereby degraded. He is mere
ly working out his part in the universal
plan and if he makes himself miserable
on account of it he but adds to what
he deems his misfortune. Good and
bad fortune are mere relative terms and
apply only as we fix our standards.
The fortunate and happy man is he
who accommodates himself to condi
tions as he finds them, doing the best
he can with what he has. He will
reach his level in society according to
his capacity and conduct ; and by so
ciety we do not mean that artificial
creation which tilts its nose at honest
toil and worships only money, but the
great body of God-fearing men and
women who, whether they labor with
hand or head, make up the bulk of our
population.
At an enormous expense, we hare
Issued a beautiful Carpet Catalogue,
lithographed in colors, which is so nat
ural that the colored plates in this
book look exactly like the carpets
eve ry oolor and every flower Is repro
duced. Every grade la included in this cata
logue (29c. to $1.50) and remember thin
book is FUEK, AND WE PAY ALL
POSTAGE. If you wish us to mail
quality samples, send us 8c. in stamps
to cover expense.
We have beeu doing business in Balti
more for 48 yeara and you run no risk
in buying from the mil!. Drop a postal
now for our catalogue and save the big
profits you are paying the midiilemau.
Our Furniture Catalogue is also free.
J17X.IUS HINES & SON
Baltimore, Hid.
f lease mention this paper.
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WATCHES!
We are always ready to sell you il-.-
right kind of a time-piece at the ny!
kind of a price. There is notfcii!
better than the best, and no honest mxii
, can sell an honest article lower than
j t ha low water mark. There 'is a limit
both ways, and we come up to thot-o
limits and offer you as good as you cuii
get as cheap as it can be sold. If you
want an honest reliable watch at the
lowest possible price, patronize us.
Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Solid
Silverware, Clocks, &c. for sale. Our
personal attention of 40 years experi
ence given to repairing. Satisfaction
guaranteed.
, JAS. H. BELL,
The Jeweler,
TARBORO, N. C.
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The commonwealth.
Brookline Public Bath.
The Altruist.
Broosline, Mass., furnishes a very
useful model for the establishment of
public baths, of which we stand great
ly in need, and toward the establish
ment of which there is just now a
strong movement.
At the annual town meeting of 1895
the subject was referred to a select
committee, whose report led to an , ap
propriation of $15,000, which was after
ward raised to $40,000.
At a town meeting held December,
1896, an unpaid committee of nine was
appointed tor the care and manage
ment ot the public bath, when com
pleted. Under these auspices, after careful
investigation and comparison with
similiar institutions at home and
abroad, a handsome T-shaped building
was erected and opened New Year's
day, 1897.
It contains a natatorium, 80 x 26,
with an average depth of four and one
halt feet, with dressing-rooms, running
track, rain bath3, and most perfect fit
tings. Thare are also other rain baths, foot
baths, an instruction tank (22 x 10),
and a ventilating passageway, which
is one of the latest and mast important
improvements. The water is kept at
an even temperature by a pulsometer
and absolutely pure by constant change
and a surface current.
The appreciation of the bath is evin
ced by an average weekly attendance
during the first six weeks of 782.
The charge at present varies from
five cents to twenty-five cents (for non
residents). Free admission was tried,
but abandoned on account of its abuse.
The estimated expense for coming
year is $5,000 above receipts. '
NO CURE ISO PAY
That is the way all druggists sell
GROVE'S TASTELESS CHLL.L
TONIC lor Chills, Fever and all forms
of Malaria. It is simply Iron and
Quinine in a tasteless form. Children
love it. Adults prefer it to bitter nause
ating tonics. ' Price, 50c 6 17 ly.
FOR 1897
Coopers Warehouse.
ROOKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA.
Secures the Highest Prices for the Tobacco Farmers.
Every Customer's wants are met if possible, and every needed attention
and courtesy is rendered.
Best of all
Good Prices are the result of Sales every Day.
I am anxious to serve my friends, and thanking them for past custom
I respectfully solicit it again for this season.
C.C.COOPER,
9 9 3m
ROCKY MOUNT, N. C
How to Cheer Him up.
Where Tramps Come From.
Winston Sentinel.
If any of your acquaintances have a
cold attended by a cough, tell hirr his
cough sounds just like Jim Higins
who lay down upon the grass when he
was in a perspiration and took con
sumption from it, and died after a
lingering illness of eighteen months
This will be very consoling to the man
with the cold.
If a person has a fever tell him the
interesting tale of how your mother-in-law's
step sister lay upon her back six
teen weeks with typhoid fever, and
immediately after that she took men
ingitis and never saw the light of day
again, but was blind all the rest of ber
life. Add that both typhoid lever and
meningitis seem particularly prevalent
this season.
Perhaps another acquaintance of
yours may be in financial difficulties.
Read to him all the new stories otmen
who are committing suicide because of
business troubles. This is calculated
to make bun feel cheerful in his mind.
Tell him how many men you have
known made assignments and never re
gained their commercial standing. If i
any of them died paupers do not omit J
this from the list. These little facts
will give him courage to face the world
and drive through his difficulties and
get upon his feet again.
If your neighbor is uneasy about the
wild behavior of any ot his children,
inform him how a respectable family
of your acquaintance had a son who is
now serving a term in the penitentiary,
and that the daughter of another
friend ran away and joined the salva
tion army.
In ganeral whatever may be your
friend's particular trouble for the time
being, pour out to him in every detail
tbe woeful stories of people you have
known who were similarly situated.
Paint each case as black as you can, the
blacker the better. If then your friend
dies or commits suicide or becomes
insane, it will not be for want of your
sympathy.
Greenville Refltctor.
The North is forever chiding the
South with its indolence and lack of
energy, but the Ferry (Miss.) Headlight
calls attention to another pha.e of the
matter.
"People who are unable to make a
living North come here and at once go
to talking about the want of energy and
get-up of the Southern people. That
great energetic, thrifty and money
making North sends an army of tramps
South every year, but the South never
sends a tramp to them. Go to our
cities and ninety-nine out of every
hundred ot the beggars you see came
here from the North. If the South is
so far behind tbe proccession, it is
strange that these are facts, but they
are. Of course, there are plenty of
good people who come here from the
North."
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA SALVE.
The best salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup
tions, and positively cures Pik-s, or no
pay required. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction or mony reruncod.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by
E. T. WHITEHEAD & CO.
Did You Ever
Try Electric Bitters as a remedy lor
your troubles? If not, get a bottle
now and get reliei. This medicine
has been lound to be peculiarly adapted
to the relief and cure of all Female
Complaints, exerting a wonderful di
rect influence in giving strength and
tone to the organs. If you have loss
of appetite, Constipation, Headache.
Fainting Spells, or are you Nervous,
Sleepless, Excitable, Melancholy or
troubled with Dizzy Spells, Electric
Bitters is the medicine you need.
Health and Strength are guaranteed
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Clipping
AND
Washing.
We are prepared to clip your horse
or wash your buggy at the following
prices :
Clipping Horse entire, $2.50
Clipping Mane and Legs, 50
Washing Horse entire, .50
Washing Buggy, .25
Washing and Oiling Harness, 25
Good work guaranteed.
PITTMAN & GRAY, Liverymen,
7 15 tf. Scotland Neck, N. C.
Remember This !
For tbe next thirty days, 1 will sell
my entire stock of
Trimmed and Untrimmed
Hats at a Sacrifice.
Shapes usually sold for 50c., 75c.,
and $1.00, now going at 25c., 40c., and
50 cts.
Job Lot of Ribbons at cost and below.
This lot includes
Persian and Dresden
effects, also Satins, Satin edges, etc.,
More Notions than ever before.
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