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This, from a man who has sold thousands of dozens of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, is strong testimony. But it only echoes popular sentiment the world over, which has, Nothing but words of praise for Ayer's Sarsaparilla." Any doubt about It? Send f oi"Cnrebook" It kills doubts and cures doubters. Address 3. C. AYES Co., Lowell. SlaM. For sale bv E. T. Whitehead & Co. Scotland Neck, N. C. PEOFESSIONAL. JR. AC. LIVERMON, 3 OmcE-Over the Staton Building. OSce hours from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to 10 clock, p. m. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. V, A DUNN, ATTORNE Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices wherever his services are mired. AVID BELL, Attorney at Law, ENFIELD, N. C. Practices in all the Courts of Hali- and adjoining counties and in the Supreme and Federal Courts. Claims Eected in all Darts of the State. JK. W.J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, Enfield, N. C. over Harrison's Drup Store. pWARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Connselor at Law,! HALIFAX, N. C. tiloney Loaned on Farm Lands. IARD ALSTON, Attorney-at-Law, LITTLETON, N. C. J FURGERSON. ATTORNEY-at-LAW, 89l HALIFAX, N. C. J1. A WHITEHEAD, DENTAL OUIgUUIIf Takboro, N. C. and Pretty Sil verware !we shipment ot silver ,ff?red 10 our customers, J4 MeatT7, SPns; Oyster, Fruii VUIHP 1rm.A.A . . - New -TV 1 MK COMMONWEALTH na proprietor. 'EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE gio VOLXEIL Sew Scries Vol. 2, SCOTLAND NECK, N. C THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1897. NO. 42 THE EDITORS LBISUSB EOUBS. Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. Kind reader, do yon ever feel the weight of business crushing you down and the demands of the hour stifling you ? Do you feel sometimes that you must get out and breathe some of heaven's iree air in the leisure grounds of life like you used to do? Well, then, read the poem in this issue headed Liesurely Lane," and see if you do not feel like going alone and sobbing out your disappointment in lieu of your much-craved surcease from crowded business life. Nothing pleases the average house wife more than to feel that her carpets, rugs, chamber sets, etc., are up to the latest style. So when we read this morning that the old-fashioned rag carpet is again coming into favor we felt a congratulation for the good wo men who have been using rag carpets as a matter of economy. They now have the pleasure of knowing that they have been doing a noble thing in practicing economy a thing so hard for most people to do and soon will find them selves in the height of household style. A correspondent writing from Wash ington to the Richmond Dispatch re cently said that so far as Post-Office Department officials know, there had not been any appointments of negro postmasters in Virginia or North Caro lina. It seems a little strange that there should be four negro postmasters appointed in Halifax county and the officials in that department not know of it, especially when the papers all through the country, including the New York World, have been discussing the appointment for Scotland Neck. The correspondence referred to said that the department officials have no means of knowing whether an appoint ee is white or black. But to be sure the President must know. The question of whether or not county commissioners in this State may exercise their own judgment in the matter oi granting liquor licenses, is still being discussed. A case in Chatham county has recently been before the public. Some seemed to think that Judge Adams Issued a man damus compelling the commissioners to grant licenses. Such was not the case. Tne mandamus oraerea tne commissioners to pass upon each case, and if the facts agree with the statute, I then license must be granted. But we question very much even in Judge Adams' mandamus. If the statute says commissioners may grant license, it would take long and strong argu ment to make us believe may meanr mutt. It was recently announcedjn a cor respondence from Raleigh to the press of the country that there Is a private library in Mitchell county that con tains 60,000 volumes. The owner's name was not given, but it is said he an ex-professor of Harvard Univer sity, and that he keeps a librarian and invites people to see and read his books. Commenting on such a large private library in North Carolina, the Wilmington. Messenger says: "That is a yery great library for a private citizen. Mr. Gladstone had library reported to be of huge size placed, we think at 35,000 volumes, most of which was left as a public library, we think, for the public around Hawarden castle, his rural home. A library of 30,000 volumes would prob ably fill all the rooms and halls of one wiimincrtnn'fl lares residences. The late Henry Thomas Buckle had a li brary of 30,000 volumes and it filled his halls, staircases and most of his rooms. BUCKLEN'S ARNICA bALVE. The best salve in the world for Cuts Rrnima. Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains. Corns, and all Skin Erup tions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required.' It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refnnced. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by E. T. WHITEHEAD A CO. i UNFEATHERED OSTRICHES. HONEY-LOVEES ABE THEY. FASHION WORSHIPERS TOO. Some Rambling Thoughts. BT "NEMO. (Copyrighted by Dawe &, Tabor.) More Ostrich Thoughts : The long-legged friend of needy milliners, with his downy thighs and tufted tail, is called in again to point a moral by means of that silly head which he bobs into the sand to shut out all sight of the world. Unlike him, his human counterpart ranges through every cli mate, unfeathered and unhonored. Some even are in your community. Let us at them and be done with our bird pointer for a while. V Thou money-lover, with not only head but heart bent down behind a few ringing coins ; through a world whose beauties and noblest joys are to thee invisible, the avenger is stealthily approaching. A little twinge of pain somewhere, a little numbness in your brain, a great deal of turning hither and thither to famed physicians what are these but warnings of vour fate? Your tiny heap seems so important to you that you thrust away the very thought of death and feverishly desire to feel forever the magic thrill of wealth within your grasp. You long to get more ; you build it up around you like a wall. Fool ! Helped by wealth you may fly on the wings of the morning to the uttermost parts of the earth, but swifter than the shadow of an eclipse the arrow of death will reach you and then what have you? The heap that you trusted in, as a fortress with trouble-proof bastions, will not save you from the glazing eye and the rattling throat, the clammy sweat and the vague picking at the bed-clothes. These are yours by a common humanity and when they come to you, nothing material can be taken- away into the darkness. Something cannot be taken away from nothing ; your life is nothing as you have lived it. You will close your eyes and lie lifeless beside the be- oved wealth that has already closed your eyes to the needs of the palpitat ing world of misery. But do I intimate that only ordinary death experiences will come to you? I Nay, if I do, I lie ; for, there will be an outstretching of other eager hands to ward your golden heap they are even now waiting for your death in order to scramble for your possessions, and, as ikely as not, behind fragments of your j soul's-all will crouch another generation of fools. Is that all ? No : for if you ove wealth more than kindness ; if you gather from oppressions ; if you wrong and cheat in order to rake more and more around you, your memory will be j crusted oyer with gangrenous hatreds. leasant and wonderfully useful though money may be, have you indeed chosen the better part of it in contenting your self with acquisition? Under the ef- brt your head, with its noble powers, is bowed lower .even than the animals who by getting give and, having done all, stand to serve humanity. But you get and give not, and the service of humanity In any form is out ot your range of vision ; your head is too low. Thou fashionable woman, hiding thy nakedness behind frumperies that change with the changing day ; con tenting thyself with a world limited by patterns and rounded out by flounces ; thou art also among the ostriches. Prinking and pruning and philander ing, covered with the products of creat ures more gentle, and with flowers more fair than yourself, you go your way as though the body were more important than the mind, neglectful of the fact that the mind adorned and the spirit sweetly and gently cultivated will last long alter the skin has wrinkled and the eyes have lost their sparkle. Compared with the fabric of your mind, your body is but a basting thread. Yet behind a contemptible hillock of clothes you bow your beauti ful head until you no more see the niriA world of noble womanhood to which you are surely called. How sel fish you are ! Your father needs -must rlfc von thoueh his aeed head calls for rest; you cry, "Give, give ;" to both FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS TMrs. 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 onnthes the child, softens the gums, allavs all pain, cures-wind collie, and is the best remedy ior Asiarrnuea. n wui relieve the poor little sufferer lmme riutelv. Sold by Druggists in. every rt of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be -eare and ask for 'Mrs. winainw'a Soothine Syrup," and take no other kind. 1 21 ly. iatner and nusoano, not that you may make any return either to them or to the world. You circle around yourself, you admire yourself, you get pleasure in humbling those less gorgeous. Do you call that living f Can you by any stretch of your perverted mind, satisfy yourself that your powers were given you just to tulnii the function ot a dress form ? If that were all, bent wires with cilicia covering could fill your place in the world. Silly ostrich, when the avenger reaches lor you, and your place knows you no more forever, what will you leave? Clothes ! whereat even the servants will flout in a little while. Upon my soul, life is not worth the ef fort of living, if thaif is all it can be made to bring lorth. ' v- Live largely ! Let life's current flow Like gen'rous flood from winter snow Fullwift, f.nd strong, nor lightly bent By any small impediment. The narrow mind is like the stream, That sparkles bright in summer's gleam ; But tiny rock or fallen tree Will check its journey towards the Wherefore look wide, and learn to live - On height's which true perspective give, So nothing trivial shall hide The clear horizon stietching wide. Lift up your heads, O ye ostriches ! Peep out with blinking eyes from be hind your fads and your foibles. Raise your heads on high where they belong and then look at life as a whole, with a due sense of proportion, impossible before when you were so near the ground. What do you learn? That no one cares for you, so long as you care only for yourself ; that the love ot your fellows Is bought with a price, a great price whose chief pearl is your own self-forgetfulness ; that the soul self-centered has no part in a civiliza tion that is only made of things gained by brain and brawn aDd then thrown into the common fund of humanity. California's Gold. San Francisco Examiner. Come down to the hard realities of arithmetic and the scales and California will turn out probably three times as much gold this year as the whole of the frozen Northwest. Probably no part of the world will be more the gain er than California by these discoveries. An increase in the production of gold is of little benefit to the world at large. The gold-finders create a new effective demand which is mostly supplied by producers in their immediate neighbor hood. The real gain to the world by the placers of California lies in the development of the agricultural, horti cultural and industrial resources of this magnificent region, which otherwise might have lain dormant for another half-century. We cannot look for any such gain to the world by turning at tention to the bleak, inhospitable shores of Alaska. It is true there are great industrial possibilties in the fisheries and the coal mines, and these no doubt will feel the stimulus ; but the country as a whole will never make good resi dence property. The Californlans who go there will all come back to us to spend their money when they have made their everlasting fortunes. Be Good to Yourself! Selected. The Medical and Surgical Reporter gives the following practical advice : "Think deliberately of the house you live in your body. Make up your mind firmly not to abuse it. Eat noth ing that will hurt it. Wear nothing that distorts or pains it. Do not over load it with victuals or drink or work. Give yourself regular and abundant sleep. Keep your body warmly clad. Do not take cold ; guard yourself against it. If you feel the first symp toms, give yourself heroic treatment. Get into a fine glow of heat by exer cise. This is the only body you will have in this world. Study deeply and diligently the structure of it, the laws that govern it, the pains and penalty that will surely follow a violation of every law of life and health." v3)r. IKing's New Discovery For Consumption. This is the best medicine in the world for all forms of Coughs and Colds and for Consumption. Every bottle is guaranteed. It will cure and not disappoint. It has no equal for Whooping Cough, Asthma, Hay Fever Pneumonia, Bronchitis, LaGrippe, Cold in the Head and for Consumption It is safe lor all ages, pleasant to take and above all a sure cure. It is always well to take Dr. King's New Life Pills in connection with Dr. King's New Discovery as they regulate and tone the stomach and bowels. We guaran tee perfect satisfaction or return mon ey. Free trial bottles at E. T. White head & Co.'s Drug Store. Regular size 50 cents and $1.00. A TALE OF WOE. THE FZSST GLASS. How a Bright Young Man at Fay etteyille Staggered into the Penitentiary. North Carolina Baptist. Last week, at the Cumberland Coun ty Criminal Court, there was a young man about 23 years of age sentenced to the Penitentiary-for stealing, while drunk, a pair of gloves from the court bouse during the session of court. We knew the young man, knew his qualifi cations as a swift and skilled workman and how he had been brought down by liquor. Accordingly, we asked him to write a statement of "bis career and we give it below. It speaks lor itself and is a warning to young men : "I have been asked to write a few facts in regard to what whiskey and associa tion with bad company have brought me to but I am afraid it is beyond my pow er to relate it in a maner which may be the means, of causing young men and yonng girls, who are on the road to dis grace, ruin and perdition, to stop and think of the reward they will reap when they reach their destiny. "Twelve years - ago, my chances in the race of life were as bright as those of any young man. I had all that would cause any young man to feel happy and proud. I had a beautiful home, in which were the idols of my heart father, mother, sister and broth ers and where kind words and advice were given me without limit. "At the age of 15 years I launched out upon the sea ot life. I entered an establishment in this State to learn a trade, and by being obedient, and ca tering to the welfare ot my employer, in the course of a few years I rose to be a trusted employe of the establish ment, so much so that I was allowed to make collections ior the firm and was also allowed to carry the keys of my employer's private office. I con tinued with this firm quite a while, when one day some young men, whom I thought were the best friends I had, prevailed upon me to accompany them to a social gathering of young ladies and gentlemen, which I decided to do and when I did, I decided upon taking my first step to ruin and dis grace. I met my so-called friends at the appointed hour, and they decided that before we proceeded to where I expected to pass a few hours in pleas ant conversation with some Christian people, that I join them in a few glass es of wine, which I would not do. They persuaded and insisted that it would do me no harm . to drink a glass of wine, so I yielded. That was the first glass of intoxicating liquid that ever touched my lips, and that glass is the cause of my present ruin and down fall. After drinking the wine we start ed to the "social gathering" and on our way there we indulged in a few drinks of whiskey, the effects of which made me feel hilarious. Finally we reached the "gathering", and a gathering it was men and women from the lowest and most degraded slums and dives of all parts of the globe Italians, Hunga rians, Swedes, Norwegians, and, last of all, I am sorry to say, Americans, all reveling in sin and debauchery. I join ed the crowd and drank whiskey and wine to the toasts of liars, thieves and murderers. After the lapse of a few hours I staggered through this crow$ with my head dizzy and whirling, from the effects of that demon whiskey to the door and upon the street, and how I reached home God only knows. Next morning I was unable to report for duty, and lied to my dear old la ther, whose mortal remains now lie in the cold clay in the beautiful "City of- the Dead" by telling him my employ er had given me a holiday. "I kept up this pace until 1 lost my position. My appetite for drink De gan to grow stronger and stronger un til I became an outcast and was order ed to leave home. Daar friend, my heart is so full I fear I will not be able to proceed farther, and I will be compelled to cut this letter short. -"I had lost my position and social standing in life lost money, honor, friends, and, last of all home I roam ed the country over, a tramp and vag abond, with hardly anyone to offer me a word of consolation ; and for what ? because I would not listen to their ad vice and craved for that which has Drought sorrow, poverty and death in to the household and blasted and blot ted the hopes of many a pure and virt uous life whiskey. O, young men and young women; look at me to-day. What is my re- If your child is puny, fretful, trou bled with glandular swellings, inflamed eyes, or sores on the bead, face, or body a course of Ayer's Sarsaparilla is need ed to expel the scrofulous humors from the blood. The sooner you begin to crive this medicine the better. For sale by E. T. Whitehead fe Co. At an enormons expense, we bmve issued a beautiful Carpet Catalogue, lithographed in colors, which ia so nat ural that the colored platea in this book look exactly like the carpets every color and every flower la repro duced. Every grade la Included In this cata logue (29c. to $1.60) and remember this book Is FHEE, AND WE PAY ALL POSTAGE. If you wish us to mall Quality samples, send us 8c. in stamps to cover expense. We have been doing business in Balti 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 8 routs you are paying the middleman, ur Furniture Catalogue is also free. JUUU8 HIKES & SON, Baltimore SXd Please mention this paper. FOR Coopers 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, I respectfully solicit C. 9 9 3m ward for what I thought was having a good time?" A SENTENCE TO THE STATE PENITENTIARY FOR NEARLY A YEAR FOR LARCENY. "Young men and young women, the hand of destruction has cut me down before I have reached the prime and maturity of manhood. Take this as a warning and turn your face toward the churcb and " God. Young men, when asked to take a "social " drink or do anything else that will lead to so much dissipation and debauching sin, reply : Boys, I will not do.what I know to be wrong and dangerous." There are times and this is one of them when you, young man, must say, 'Thus far will go and no farther. Ob, I tell you if all young men and young women would only meet tempt ations with such brave words and un yielding resolves, even those who tempt you will admire you more. When night falls do not go in search of the sparkling glass and card tables, for there are no laurels or honor to be won at either. "I thank every one who has helped me in this my hour of trouble, and be lieve me, dear friends, and I call God to be my witness, that another drop of intoxicating liquid shall never touch my lips again. "I bid you all farewell and ere you have read this I will have begun serv ing my sentence." . Snakes in Her Boots. Buffalo Commercial. The wife of the late Professor Agas- . . . ' siz was one morning putting on ner stockings and boots. -A little scream attracted the Professor's attention. Not having risen lie leaned forward anxiously on his elbow and inquired what was the matter. "Why, a little snake has just crawled outpf my boot," cried she. "Only one, my dear?" inter rogated the Professor, calmly lying down again. "There should have been three." He had put them there to keep them warm. What it Means. . "When we advertise that we will guarantee Dr. King's New Discovery Electric Bitters, Bucklen's Arnica Salve, or Dr King's New Life Pills, it means that we are authorized by the proprietors to sell these remedies on ; a positive guarantee that .if purchaser is not satisfied witn results, we will refund purchase price. These , medi cines have been sold on this guarantee for many years and tnere could be no more conclusive evidence of their great merit. - Ask about them and give tbem a trial. Sold at E. T. Whitehead k Cos Drug Store. IF Y0Ptf.E IIUSTlin 'TOBWBt ADVERTISE YOU Business. Send Your Advertisement in Now. - WATCHES! We are always ready to sell you tho right kind of a time-piece at the right kind of a price. There is nothin r better than the best, and no honest man can sell an honest article lower than the low water mark. There is a limit both ways, and we come up to thoee limits and offer you as good as you can get as cheap as it can be sold. If yon want an honest reliable watch at the lowest possible price, patronize us. Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, Solid Silverware, Clocks, Ac. for sale. Our personal attention of 40 years experi ence given to repairing. Satisfaction guaranteed. i ao ii nn i JAOi m dlLLi The Jeweler TARBORO, X. C. 2 IS ly Subscribe to The commonwealth. 1897 and thanking them for past custom it again for this season. C. COOPER, ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. " NIL1I.I0 & HUBBARD, -GENERAL- Commission Merchants And Dealers in COUNTRY PRODUCE AND SOUTH ERN FRUITS. Quick Sales. Prompt Returns. Trial Ship ments Solicited. No. 15 Roanoke Dock, NORFOLK, - VIRGINIA Reference : City National Bank, Nor folk ; First National Bank, Guinsville, Fla. 9 30 Cm Pepsinagogue cures dyspepsia, Tones up the heart and steadies the nerves. Makes old people strong. Tailing 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 LOW RATES fob GOOD BOARD. : Visitors to Raleigh will save money by . stopping with me. SERVANTS ATTENTIVE AND , SERVICE GOOD. Close to Union Depot. 213 West Martin Street. R. G. REID, Prop. 9 2:3 3m Raleigh, N. C. Mention this paper. SCOTLAND NECK STEAM DTE WORKS Mourning Goods a bPECULTY Get price list. Address Scotland Neck Steam Dyeing Co. 1-24-lv Scotland Neck N. 0 WANTED TRUSTWORTHY. AND ACTIVE gentlemen or ladies to travel for responsible, established nouse in North Carolina. Monthly $65.00 and expenses. Position steady. Refer ence. Enclose self-addressed stamped envelope. 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