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ADVERTISING IS TO BUSINESS Machinery, KI.USG POWER. JHAi -"Ias of tie a dees TH AT tOU ish 5 'oar Ad vertisement l(j KEACU is the class who read this paper. ; . ' 1 ' ii ' . rw-. ED COJ MMONWi EALTH. bIb. HILLIARD. Editor and Proprietor. -. - ..irxrri ainijr .u JLI. " A xkj. , . SUBSCRIPTION PRICE 9x.oo. VOL. xiii cw series vol. 2. SCOTLAND NECK, N. CU THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1897. NO. 41 ' ' - . - ' . ; THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOUBS. Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. unfeaThered OSTRICHES DENIALS NOT ALWAYS FACT. Some Bam Ming Thoughts. BY NEMO. toeonld imagine that this should b He place where, in eighteen ninety -three That Mte woria-wonaer 01 area ana lame Should shadow the nations, polychrome . Here at the Fair was tne prize conierrea OB Ayer's Pills, ty the world preferred. Cticajo-like, they a record show, gijee tiey started 50 year ago. Ayer's Cathartic Pills have, from the time of their nreDaration, been a continuous success with the public And that means that Ayer's Pills accomplish what is promised for them; they cure where others fail. It was fitting, therefore, that the world-wide popularity of these pills should be recognized by the World's Fair medal of 1893 a fact which emphasizes the record: 50 Years of Cures For sale by E. T. Whitehead. & Co. Scotland Neck, N. C. The Salisbury World says that ex- Senator Ransom will doubtless be in the next campaign. , Mr. Ransom went up to Blowing Rock jbl iew days ago and the World reviewed him, and was impressed to say . that he will go in to the campaign, and adds that thorn who know him predict that it will be the greatest campaign of hlsJUfej-' . That was a lmost generous act "of Mr. Dennis Simmons of Wllliamston in purchasing clothes and .shoes for-all the inmates oTfhe Nursery at the Bap tist Orphanage at Thomasville. When people do wicked deeds much is writ ten and said about it, and we ought to be as free in commending good deeds, I nursuit, what a pleasantly (Copyrighted by Dawe & Tabor.) To all about Ostriches. We can not know what this gawky bird," with its haphazard feathersactually has in ite miud unless we ?e ostriches our- BaJkUrWlnly attempt to ' think its thoughts by reas.cn of watching its actions, aud actions speak louder than words ; which is desperately true of other two-legged creatures besides ostriches. Now, according to the ac counts of travelers, this bird when alarmed has a way of hiding Its head ; the idea seeming to be that if it cannot see the pursuer, the pursuer cannot see it. If closing the . eyes really stopped easy time esoeciallv when done for the noor and ima sunerer lrom woman's whims would nave. .But troubles do not vanish thus easilv. and we lanph at. t.ha Mr. Simmons', example in helping dunca pf a bir, who dream8 that . take care of these unfortunate children has blotted out the world and its mis- might well be followed by other men eries just by refusing to see them ; yet, of means in the land. 'here are other dunces with the same number oi feet, and they do not all i wear feathers. existence or put Him aside. If He ex ist, a million denials oi His existence amount to nothing more than did ages ot ignorance in relation to the power that kept our globe circling. If a basic fact of the universe be true, it has been true always and al ways will be true, even if never discov ered. Think of the modern chaining of electricity and you will see what I mean. The wondrous power we now control to pull our - trains, light oar rooms, cook our meals, has been here as long as the world joas existed.,. It is ajrnth of nature t, arid still would be, even though we never had wrenched Its eeeret forward into light. STILL A REBEL KNITS T7NDE& A REBEL FLAG. A Southern Woman who Has Not been Down Town Since the war. .-. shines. Though the yet, not vanished "Booms" in business seldom ever re sult as they promise. What is known as a "boom town" soon becomes to be Ever the sun night Brings darkness, quite, Our faith is helpedjby mirrors dim J.ne misty stars, the moon's cold rim Or, when the cloudy veil hangs low, Home shredmg fleece with gold will glow, And bid us hope. E'en the sad sou Who dwells where, months of dara- ness roll -May find his infidelity Rebuked bv some pale star's firm eye Ana sun, tnrougn-questiomngs and doubts, And ridicule and mocking shouts, Though all men say no sun exists And each one argues as he lists : And, though the planets all combine lo bide bis face, still doth he shine ! Some day no cloud shall cloak the hill, No mist the gloomy valley fill ; But every shadow flee away Out driven by the perfect day. My brother ostrich, let us think life of a man who has no well-wrought foundation on which to stand, seldom PROFESSIONAL. A. C. LIVERMON, OmcE-Over the Staton Building. Dice hours from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to Joelock, p. m.. '""SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. bili ty, seldom lasts his life time. the man through YIB BELL, Attorney at Law, ENFIELD, N. C. Practices in all the Courts of Hali- b and adjoining counties and in the hpreme and Federal Courts. Claims fleeted in all parts of the State. L DUNN, Once upon a time, as the fairy tales express it, some hunted ostriches put practically no town at all. A mush- their heads together they would better room growth in any thing is not per-1 nave teen scurrying over the sands manent. One sudden bound in the and wnon thf were huddled like boys in a foot-ball scrimmage, one of them further one step of the one whose fail suaaemy exclaimed "l. cannot see any ures have made you hide your head. hunger ; there is none," and so said I reckon vou would regard him as in- is maintained to the end. One sudden they all ; but they lost their feathers expressibly stupid who tried to picture bound to fortune by one who has not just the same. to himself the Grant or Washington had experience and toil and responsi- un anotner occasion an ostrich thrust monument, with nothing before him ms neaa into a narrow noie. Me Had but a sharp edged chip. Its rough a moment before been in the full glare appearance, its dangerous points, its Of the suu, but in the darkness he saw unfinished and nnnolished sides are So with business so with anything, nothing, so he communed with him- not the right things by which to esti T. i 1 !lL Xl n x I 1 T T - I ... . . n uib w uo a law witu we ureal sou, x ewnu sun, x sew no tiling ; mate tne original oi wnich it is a me Builder that what is to be enduring therefore, there is no sun, no nothing, mento. Think now if you please of miiBt nttain unto retn if Aver it. i UP to thia tin?e I have been dreaming." those wretched failures among men 0 -j - I T. . i , i . : . . I . out me neroage Kepton .growing, , andlawomen ot goo&rirqjession, and tne ardent sun looked after the neg- J learn what I would argue concerning lected eggs and gave the final warming them. Mere fragments are they, and influence to hatch out another genera- bear no resemblance to the grand block tion of dunces. ; of which they were once apart. They I havA paneaA van haratntnra trt Kir j There are people in the world who your head from the sunlight of day profess to be good, they bend the knee Open your eyes now and a wholesome in the sanctuary, they give freely of world growing more and more full of their lonev. thev shout lond "A menu" great things, learned to be true, is until some fateful day they come yours to look upon and disport your- tumbling down in local esteem : for self in for your little day, this Sunday-school superintendent or that deacon has robbed a bank or wronged a woman or any one of a long list of things that ruin life : and bring disgrace on fair careers. Then is the favorable time for the human ostrich reached, through gradations of develop ment. ATT 0 R X E Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, N. C. " ' raetices wherever his wired. services are IS. W.J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, Ejjtield, N. C. "foover Harrison's Dm? Store. - Mr. Thomas A. Jackson, a cotton farmer near Atlanta, has a stock of cotton that promises to revolutionize cotton farming in this country. According to the Atlanta Constitu tion the cotton is limbless, having no branches at all, the bolls growing on short stems from the stalk. Instead of making a bale to the acre, as the best cotton makes here, it will easily make four. Having no limbs, the stalks can be grown very close together ; and as it grows very nign every staiK will pro duce four times as much as the ordina ry cotton. Those who have counted the bolls on a number of stalks say that up. He argues thus to himself : "What the average is over 50 bolls to the did So and So profess? Christliness. - - 71 a AiA fArfis9 3flk Aran a nrtrw staiK. I . . . .. . . . ; . , , . . I widow s mite, un wnat did ne Dase Mr. Jackson had only a few stalks m tf . 1895, last year half an acre, and this to give authority to the jBible? year 6 acres. The cotton brought 15 God. Therefore, I will not believe in Birds Which Baild Houses. man, full of questionings in and full .of conceit when his N. Y. Journal. There has just been discovered by a Government ornithologist a tribe of to come along in the form of a young in th- 1a,ant, nf Naw nnjnM his mind, I ,hili alinnr thamaAlrM A-rrAllAnr nnh. mind, on ife ta b building each for himself a little evidence or much, is once made mtlA hmiBA nn thft nd. Of course, the house that the bird builds is not an elaborate pile of brown stone or even bricks. It is made mere ly of twigs and pebbles, kept together by the interweaving of the tall dried grass peculiar to the wild fields of New fWABDL. TRAVIS, cents a pound last year. While the great rush to the schools and colleges is a hopeful sign for the and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. &Xoney Loaned on Farm Lands. r ABD ALSTON, Attorney-at-Law, LITTLETON, N. C. p-FURGERSON. ATTORNEY-at-LAW, Hly HALIFAX, N. C. : j10-A. WHITEHEAD, Guinea. But it answers its purpose Uod nor the Uible nor religion. .nBf n in teenin? off the rain and I am not intending to argue here 8un, and no wind can knock down the what things, are true and what. are un-1 house, owing to the ingenious manner true, but I want you to see the charm- jn which the bird selects a site, ing duncery of your logic. Let me The birds haye received the tempo- future good of the State, there is dan- 8n0w you your own ostrich way, as in a I rary name of garden birds, owing to ger of young men and young women I mirror. All the ancients were prepared the fact that they fence in a little plot -.ov,- o tof.irA in the ends soueht to swear that the earth waa flat and around their houses, for no other ap- I through an education. - Tn he Mire, the educated man has I greatly the advantage over the unedu- waa flat the sun its attendant satellite. They parent reason than to let other birds were even prepared to kill those who know that the enclosed plot is private would testify differently. But while property, thev were professing to run tne universe I When the male garden bird takes a to suit their narrow minds, what" was mate he selects some level spot in the the truth ? The earth was globular, fields where he finds a tree not more and itsorbit around the ; sun had been I than two inches In thickness at the practically unchanged for ages. Now J base. With this tree as a centre pole it is evident that all these millions, the bird builds his" house of twigs, chief end in education is tne up-1 ignorant of the truth, believed in un- leaves, pebbles and grass and when fin lift which it gives to our lives in mak- truth, and yet all their myriad minds j8hed it is a cunningly wrought man- ing us better and broader in our sym cated man in matters of business, mnnav.mnlrinc. and uositibn in the I world ; but this is the lowest estimate that. Mn ha nnt noon education. The DENTAL Surgeon, Tarboro.N. 0. pathies. Its design of God is to maxe like himself and the better prepare us for; the great out-stretching future of immortality for which this life, with its varied experiences, is only I a nrenaratory school. Let the young , I men of the land, as they seek to devel- aaa Pretty Sil verware op their minds, seek also to -feroaden their sympathies ; and thus every truth gacred Books of any number of differ- which they grasp will not only make I ent religions with any number of dif- greater possibilities for them, but will ferent inaccuracies lived forth by any I" - ii.oAith number of frightful frauds-fakirs of Hindustan or evil men andthieves in which to help lilt others upon a higher fthnrches-do not affect His plane of life. . j did neither affect nor hinder tne 8i0n, shaped like a bell, and who two planets in their appointed journeys. I stories. In the upper story several Again, suppose 7we all with one ac-1 small openings are lelt to act as win- cord should deny the existence ot the dews, and the ground floor has one sun, we should merely proclaim our large opening which serves lor entrance own blindness and the sun would not as well as to let in the light. be affected a particle. It would be When the house is finished the bird still there, hanging hotly above us, our erects a circular fence, two inches in denials of its existence would be inde- height, around his house, and tnus en scribable nothings. . closes a plot three leet distant from it mmnosine God to exist : the at eyery point BUCKLEN'S ARNICA bALVE. I:ght flom the time ' fcSj2tt TIved th largest TX!nent ot silver- Fl0,n hckJ n- u our cu8mers. Bruises, Bores, y T' "rJI81168; Orange, Coi- Fever Sores, Tetter, ChPP?J H W., 17 oDoona' nJ i. I -n-ni-i ovuf all Skin Erup- 8ome days nothing "will you come out rise r until is The best salve in the world for Cuts retired-Ten to one, the trouble Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, a in y0Urself.v Your blood is in oau cou- Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, f A ,erv brean suffers in con- ma: Ova-, u-i. fiwikU-. fWn. nnd. aU BKin x-ruir u.v-, - : - - , ,UA TlLjTlikndU up aaies, with pertsst satiaacuoir r t Avers oaPru. - - Thn interior of each house is decor ated with fresh leaves, the wings' of beautiful insects, pretty feathers which other birds may have shed, gayly-color-ed berries, and even the bleached skulls of birds that have died in the fields long before. The gardens of the birds are strewn with wild blossoms, and when these wither they are carefully replaced. - If the hair has been made : to grow a natural color on bald heads in : thou sands of cases, by using - Hall's JHair Rjwtawer. whv willltAOt in your case? For sale by E. T. Whitehead Co. MOrug Btore. Charleston (5. (J.) Post. There Is an old woman in Charles ton who has not been on the Battery since the war and has not been On King street in three years. This may sseein like a fairy tale to many, but it is a true statement. She is not a crip' pie. either j bat b as well and strong as a woman could expect to be who had reached the age of 74 years. She lives in the western part of the city .within a iew squares ot .King street and near the Butledge-a venue street-car line. Another remarkable thing about this old lady is that she has never seen the electric-cars and has no desire to see them, so she says. She was asked the other day by a. friend of hers to join her in a trolley-rlde, but she de clined with thanks saying she did : not care to ride on anything that was pro- nAllofl Hr nnoun TUMoa, ' "T.a vma " said she, when asked to take a trolley ride, "do you think I'd get on one of those cars that are run by electricity ? I could not be induced to take one of those electric rides. You are fouling with something you can't see." As before stated, the old lady has not been on the Battery since the war. Notwithstanding repeated efforts have been made by friends and relatives to get her to visit this beautiful place, all appeals fell on deaf ears. She would reply when asked : "Thank you, I do not care to go." utner tnan this no excuse was ever offered. Oftentimes she has been asked by her friends why she did not care to go on the Battery, or why she had not been there since the war, but never a reason did she give. The old lady is a genuine rebel, and says she has never surrendered and never will. In her house is a large Confederate flag sus pended from the wall in her room, and it is said she sits under it hours at a time and knits stockings. Finances in the Home. a At an enormous expense, we have Issued a beautiful Carpet Catalogue, lithographed In colors, which is so nat ural that the colored plates fa this book look exactly like the carpet every color and every flower Is repro duced. . Every grade Is Included In this cata logue (29c. to SL50) and remember this book la FREE, AND WE PAT ALL POSTAGE. If you wish us to mall quality samples, send us 8c. In stamps to cover expense. We have been doing- business In Baltf "more for 48 years and you run no risk In buying from the mill. Drop a postal now for our catalogue and save the big profits you are paying the middleman. Our Furniture Catalogue is also free. JULIUS HIKES & SON - Baltimore SXd Please mention this paper. IF YOU ARE IIUSTLD ' TOU WILL ADVERTISE- YOUB Business. Send Your Advertisement in Now. WATCHES! We are always ready to sell you the right kind of a time-piece at the right kind of a price. There is not bin,; better than the best, and no honest mnu can sell an honest article lower than the low water mark. There is a limit both ways, and we come up to those limits and offer youas good as you can get as cheap as it can be sold. - If you want an honest reliable- watch at tbe 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.II. DELL, The Jeweler, TARBORO.N. C. 2 18 ly Subscribe to The commonwealth. Coope rs FOR 1897 srerw o:p:ENr i Warehouse, ROOKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA- Secures the Highest Prices for the Tobacco Farmers. Every Customer's wants are met if possible, and eyery 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 seaspn. CrC. COOPER,- 9 9 3m KOCKY MOUNT, N. C. Dixie Farmer. A lack of sound business understand ing between husband and wife has been the ruin of more homes than a poverty. When a man and woman enter -into I a marriage that most important part nership in life both members in the It is Pluck that Wins. James A. Garfield. Now, young gentlemen, let me, for a moment, address you touching your success In life ; and ,1 hope the very j new firm should have a distinct appre- brevity .of my remarks will increase the ciation of the financial situation, and, chance of their making a lodgement in an thtk vara hash, tbe firm's nrofits and vour minds. - Let me beg you, in the losses should.come within the equal outset of your career, to dismiss from knowledge of both. your mind all idea of your succeeding So would be avoided much of the by luck. There is no more common lit l a. . 1. iL. iL.i unhaDDiness that arises from the hus- mougni among yuuuKpwpiw tuu u, band's thinking his wife extravagant, or the wife's thinking her husband stingy. Nothing is more discouraging to man than to see his bard earned money thrown recklessly away on lux uries he feels that only the families of foolish one that by and by something will turn up by which they will sud denly achieve either . fame or fortune No, young gentlemen ; things don't turn up in this world unless somebody turns them up. Inertia is one of tbe la 1 1 m A J J richer men can afford, but often this indispensaoie laws oimawer.ana wings exnenditure is due not to the wilful- e flat where they, are until by some ne- on the wile's nart. but to simply intelligent spirit, for nothing but spirit I makes motion in this world, they are ' -I -a ..a . . v pan afford to have her spend. He is endowed witn activity and me. uo often over indulgent. She tells him not oream tnai some good iuck is going nf two bonnets : one is five dollars more to happen to you and give you fortune. th the other, and she doesn't know Lack Is an Ignis fatuus. You may fol whether she ought to get it "but It is low it to your ruin, but not to success, - - I mi "T t 1 1 U J 1 a dear of a bonnet." she adds, and he, Ane great napoieon, wuo oeiioveu in tno weaklv loving, tells her"to buy it his destiny, followed it until ne saw bis a - and. then when the star go down in blackest nignt, wnen " . . . : j rt 1 Si I Kill ..rune in. he broods over his ex- me "in vuaru . j5buu him penses. .;. - ""At another time she asks for money to buy a certain piece of bric-a-bnc, and meets with a refusal, and, at a loss to reconcile her husband's former gen erosity with the present denial in wardly decides that he is "close." i Both of these misunderstandings are dueo a want of mutual advice and confidence concerning the house hold treasury. The wav to avoid the around and Waterloo was lost. A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. . " -. . Young men talk of trusting to the spur oi tne occasion, mat trust is vain. Occasions cannot make spurs, young gentlemen. If you wish to wear spurs you most win them. If you ex pect to use them, you must buckle them to your .own heels before you go into the fight. Any success you may achieve is not worth tbe having .unless vou fight for it. Whatever you may unhappiness I win in life, you must conquer by your that such misunderstandings invaria- own efforts, and then it is yours a bly bring about, is for the wife to haye part of yourself. r "7 ZZA He who does humble labor faithfully Knowing aowjr ftnd el m m Jater kq caUe ance bears to her husband s whole In- higher. The man or boy who is come. ' Whether the allowance be I worth no more than he gets is not llke- i . a Wiii reaiw matter verv lv to get any more : for if be does, be . . . . 1 i o hntma that' in eAtahliflhed on win u llbbi- the above sound money basis. more- tban be is T. ... " " " CJ . - worth. Epworth HeraldT Old People. Something to Depend On. Mr. James Jones, of the Drug firm Old people who require medicine to of Jones & Son, Cowden, III. in speak regulate the bowels and kidneys will ing of Dr. King's New JJiscovery, says find the true remedy inElectric Bit- that last winter his wife was attacked tens. This medicine does not stimulate with LaGrippe, and her case grew so and contains no whiskey nor other in- serious that physicians at Cowden and intiTfoant. but acts as a tonic and al- Pana could do nottning ior ner. nav- terative. It acts mildly on the stom- ing Dr. King's New. Discovery in store ach and bowels, adding strength and and selling lots of it, he took a bottle" giving tone to the organs, thereby aid- home, and to the surprise- of all she in Katnm in the performance of the beean to get better from the first dose functions. Electric Bitters is an ex- and half dozen dollar bottles cured her AiiAnf. annetizer "and aids digestion, sound and well. Dr. King s New Die rM nAonlA find it iust exactlv what coverr. for Consumption, Cougba and thev need. Price fifty cents and $1,001 Colds is gnaranteed to do this good uriai per bottle at E. T. W hitehead & Co's ( work. : Try it. Free bottles at ' E. T. Whitefc?i t Co's Drug Store. NMO & HUBBARD, -GENERAL- Commission Merchants And Dealers in COUNTRY PRODUCE AND SOUTH ERN FRUITS. Trial Ship ments Solicited. Quick Sales. Prompt Returns. . No. l5 Roanoke Dock, NORFOLK, - VIRGINIA Reference : City .National Bank, Nor folk ; First National Bank, Gains Hie, Fla. " 9 29 6m Pepsinagogue cures dyspepsia, Tones up the heart and steadies the nerves. Makes old people strong. Taking 40 to 50 drops doses for several months cures Asthma. If your druggist does not keep it send 50 cents to Dr. Hyatt, Kinston, N. C, and get a bottle by mail. mm iUlJJUH THE SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, K GROCER! FINE CONFECTIONS 1 j; FRUITS, ETC. First Class Gkods a specialty. HAY, CORN, OATS, COTTON SEED MEAL, HULLS, &c., in Car Lots. CLOVER AND .GRASS SEEDS. 5 6tf. Notice. Having qualified as administrator, . cum testamento annexo, ui uis cwaw of the late Frances M. Mizell, I hereby notify all persons having claims against said lestate to present the same tp me on or before oeptemoer o, iow. This Sept. 1, 1897. - v F. M. Mizell, 8 26 fit f , Admr. C.T. A, By Claude Kitchin, Atty. -4 4i -- : ... 'JO 1 , -v, 4 - - ' nil "'-til '. . t ?? "-7 -v ." """1 UK "if - ' V ' r, .?.. ., - '. -I . fir , s ""If- iKz 4 Co. - i,-" 1 Whi-hti & Co.
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