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' . '.I IF YOU ARE HotLO business irvmr-- - ,:aMisto u n U yl ) WAV r-4 rN Machinery E. E. HILL.IARD, Editor and Proprietor. i.Ll.NG POWEB. "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00. Gkkat VOL. XTTT. New Series Vol. 2. SCOTLAND NECK, N. 0., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1897. NO. 44 Send Your Advertisement in. Now. Or HEADERS . Business. -1 fir IT l MAT lflsh y;mr Advertisement TO ilEACH . cl., wIio':;read this paper., L. Fifty Years Ago. jyi is the way it was bound to look iSta grandfather had his "picterlltek,-. - jjcse were the shadows cast before . Becoming of Conjurer Dagnerre jadhisart; lite a girl in a pinafore Scat 2av to bloom to a goddess fair. jo certainly were not as black, we know jithev pictured them, 50 years ago. Ayer's Sarsaparilla began to make new men, Just is the new pictures of men began to be made. Thousands of people fronted the camera with skins made clean from blotch and blemish, because they had purified the blood with Ayer's Sarsaparilla. It is as powerful now as then. its record proves it. Others imitate the remedy ; they aa't imitate the record : CO Years of Cures. For sife bv E. T. Whitehead & Co. Scotland Xack, N. C. PROFESSIONAL. R.A.C. LIVEEMOX, Mi (toiCE-Over the Staton Building. 52ce hours from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to lo'doek, p. m. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. t A. DUXX, AT TORSE Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, If. C. Practices Tvherever his services are I nqaired. JID BELL, Attorney at Law, ENFIELD, X. C Practices in all the Courts of Hali hand adjoining counties and in the preme and Federal Courts. Claims ejected in all parts of the State. W.J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, Enfield, N. C. i over Harrison's Dru? Store. pWARD L. TRAVIS, Forney and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. &Honey Loaned nn Farm. Lands. WARD ALSTON, Attomey-at-Law, LITTLETON, N. C. ILFURGERSON. ATTORNEY-at-LAW, j9l HALIFAX, N. C. r c- A. WHITEHEAD, DENTAL Surgeon, Takboro, N. C. lew and Pretty Sil verware mi kan: -Ust received the largest arer. uiest shipment ot silver- offered to our customers, and W c. Hues ' "range OI" M xJP. Spoons; Oyster, Fruh I Tj.OvV ""ear longs; uream, 1 JotW and SouP ladles, with THE EDITOB'S LEISUBB EOUBS. Points and Paragraphs of Thingi Present, Past and Future. Among the many needs in NortB Carolina for the lessening of crime, Ja a whipping post. Call it barbarous if you will ; but if there were a whipping post in every county in North Carolina at which proper crimes could be punished with "forty lashes, save one,' Criminal courts would not often be needed. Mr. J. K. Tillery told the editor of a he common wealth a - lew days ago that some time in the thirties when it was first proposed to build a railroad from Wilmington to Weldon and track it with iron, Mr. Benjamin Edmunds, who lived in the upper part ot Halifax county, said that there was not enough iron in the world to do it. There are many things in this coun try now that would have been laughed to scorn In those old days. But we are only in the gray dawn of the great day of wonders. They will yet dazsle the world with a more splendid light than we have ever seen. Nearly a hundred and filty years ago Benjamin Franklin wrote the following about prices and industry : 'The common people do not work for pleasure generally, but from neces sity. Cheapness of provisions makes them more idle ; less work is then done, it is then more in demand proportion ately, and of course the price rises. Dearness of provisions obliges the man ufacturer to work more days and more hours; thus more work is done than equals the usual demand ; of course it becomes cheaper and the manufactur- es in consequence. A writer In a popular magazine says that "no arguments are worthy ot se- nous consideration unless tney are ounded on demonstrable facts." This is sound sense ; and taking it as a rule by which to proceed, it would not be hard to convince any reasonable person, who will throw aside prejudice, that the present government of North Carolina, from the Governor's chair to the place of constable in the most ob scure township in the State, is anything but satisfactory to our best people. And it will continue to be so until there is a great clearing ot hirelings from places of responsibility and trust in the State ' This Is the season of the year when people ' in agricultural ""-districts are expected to settle accounts. And it behooves every one to do his best to pay all his ac counts as promptly as possible; for many debts are sometimes settled by the first man's payment. A owes B and B owes C and C owes D, &c. Now il A will strain a point to-day and pay B, and all along the line will do like wise, the man farthest off from A will get the money lor what the man next above him owes, and then the money can Btart back to A again. A man is seldom justified in carrying money in his pocket long at a time if he owes any one. One payment make a hundred. The yellow fever which has been prev- alent in several prominent cities ana towns in Louisiana, Alabama, Missis sippi and Texas, has been of a mild type for the most part. " The exceedingly warm weather throughout the month of September and thus far in October, has had a tendency to aggravate the disease and make it more general and f more fatal. One reason tor the disease spreading so much in some places was the failure to report promptly every new pr suspicious case to the health authorities. There is no more impor tant subject for town authorities everywhere to consider than the matter of nroner sanitation and precaution against disease. ' v- - BUCKLEN'S ABNICA bALVE. The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, 'Ulcers, aw Totter. Chapped -lianas fever bvwi - -fjWirv. Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup " a Vitivelv cures Piles, or no pay reouirir It is guaranteed to give Ssatisfactionr money ntonceA. n-l OK una TWr hOX. JfOT Sale UJf OUR PRIDE. TESEITOEY, POPULATION, WEALTH, PEODUOTS AND POLITICAL INSTITU- -TIONS. MORAL POWER OUR STAR. Some Hambling Thoughts. BY "NEMO. (Copyrighted by Dawe & Tabor.) To Voters : We believe in pride of country and I write to a nation not lacking in it.' We believe in the pos sibility of real devotion to an adopted country by those who come from other shores, and I write to a nation largely made up of emigrants. We believe there are more healthy people than sick, more sane than insane, more honest than criminal, and I write to a nation whose unselfish citizens out number by five to' one all who find their pleasure and their profit in per verting the people's will. So you and I are fitted with a healthy sort of hopefulness. Like those dear ovable people who insist on seeing al ways the bright side of trouble, or those logical sufferers who insist on the existence of the sun no matter how black the cloud, we believe in our country, we dare to imagine for it a greater destiny than has yet been at tained ; in short, we are proud of it. But let us stop a moment to analyze our pride ; for "pride goeth before a fall" unless it be a carefully selected and well-grounded . pride, that has no stiff-neckedness about it. What Is there about the United States to make us proud ? Territory ! Yes, that is something extraordinarily vast and compact, but the Roman Empire had wat and yet went to pieces. The character of a people has something to do with the retention of territory. Population ! That indeed increases by leaps and bounds. Each census piles up further millions, but the Chinese Empire has that fact to meet in even greater measure, and as a na tion it is tottering to disruption. In population, qtiality is more important than quantity. Wealth ! The total wealth of the nation climbs up into figures that are beyond comprehension. But Spain and India were, dung their prime, richer than your most golden dream ; the former is now narrowed down to mere nothingness among the powers, and the latter has for generations been trodden by the foot of the conqueror. The true wealth of a nation is man hood, and the lack of that .ruined the two mentioned. Products'! .1 grant the remarkable range from tropical fruits to arctic pines, a"nd from pottery-clays to virgin gold, but these things are here by the gift of Nature. We may be wise and take or eat, or we may dispense of our plenty to others' need ; but the sun shines on other nations beside ours, and if we may be proud, much more such a nation as England who makes up for insular lack by getting quotas from every habitable portion of the globe. Political Institutions I Then the pride must be largely ascribed to those broad plans of our fathers, rather than to any certainty in relation to - the fu ture ; unless we come to realize that institutions and rights are not perpetual motion machines. They do not run themselves. For example, if progres sive plans and broad culture, could go on without great men to carry them forward, we abould have been spared the sight of Greece, so decadent from grand historical traditions as to be an easy conquest by the polygamous Turk. No country stretching far, No pomp of civic state. Can make you truly great, America ! No gairTfrom cruel war, No catmon echoing loud, Can make you really proud, America ! No golden stone Or bar Filched from its darksome ditch, Can make you truly rich, America ! Only the guiding star Of -honesty and truth Cankeep your glorious youth, America I - W . No ! Territory, population, wealth, products, formal declarations, are not the things that fill us most with pride. This nation thrown together hap-haz ard, is nevertheless so permeated by idetyTof the eternal right and justice of things, that in moments oigrave na With but little care and no trouble the teard and mustache can be kept a uniform brown or black color by using Buckingham's Dye for- the Whiskers, tional testing the pulsations of the mighty heart of the great common people have always beaten steadily. That is our pride. After all a moral idea is greater and longer lived than material things or forms of words : the church in your neighborhood will point my meaning as its spire-finger is raised upward to the sky." It stands for an idea that goes on after its apostles have perished, after its builders have slept tor generations, after the materials of which It wag made have crumbled at the touch of Time. Moral and not material it survives the lapse of years, the death of supporters, the shattering of dynasties. Even so with all right ideas, of which suiely our nation is an embodiment. Vaguely yet desperately the masses have held to the conviction that this wide-spread country is to be a i supreme testing place of the trust worthiness of the common-people ; solemnly have they grown to a sense of unity and its absolute necessity to na tional life. Glance back and see ! . Who held in clinging desperation along the fringe of the continent, de spite wild savagery before and cultured savagery behind? The common peo ple. When lapsing time showed the pos sibilities of this country and men be gan to dream of rights based upon con ditions here, uninfluenced by the dicta of a remote and half-crazy monarch, the common people watered the ground with Wood. The supreme right to the manage ment of our own affairs haying been decided, a territory wide enough to in spire boundless enthusiasm confrooted this plain people. By splendid energy they have subjugated it, bo that its culture, its progress, its completeness are a monument to the magnificent power of common people, untrammeled by traditions. Then a great moral question came up for settlement, whose issues struck at the very cohesion of our blood baptised nation. Desperately the na tional heart yearned over the need of a government '-one and inseparable." The common people bore the brunt of the conflict on bot h sides, and by them was it fought to a conclusion, so that even the vanquished now say the ques tion was settled rightly., , - Our pride is that "the people" can be trusted. It tnoronghly possessed by aa idea, their response is splendid. Like some huge engine, their progress is irresistible when once motion is im parted. The only complaint. and even that is a cause for pride as il is closely related to the permanency of national purpose is that they are slow to awak en to danger. With your editor's permission I will carry this idea further next week. Hard Times. Observer. "Boy at the head of his class, what are we paying for liquor as a nation?" "Nine hundred million dollars an nually." "Step to the blackboard, my boy. First, take a rule and measure this sil ver dollar. How tbicfc is it?" "Nearly an eighth of an inch." "Well, sir how many of them can you put in an inch ?" - "Between eight and nine." "Give the benefit of the doubt ; call it nine. 'How many inches would it require to pile these nine hundred millions in ?" "One hundred million inches." "How many feet would that be?" "Eight million three hundred and thirty-three thousand, three hundred and thirty-three feet." How many rods is that?" "Five hundred and five thousand and fifty rods." "How many miles is that?" "One thousand five hundred and seventy-eight miles. 'Miles of what?" "One thousand five hundred and seventy-eight mjles of silver, dollars, laid down, packed close together, our national liauor bill would make. This is onlv one year's grog bill." Reader, if you need lacts about tms temnerance question, nail this to a post and read it occasionally. It would take ten men wnn scoop snoveis to throw away money as fast as we are wasting it for grog. - Something to Enow. It may be worth something to know that the very, best medicine for restor ine the tired 'out nervous system to a hftnlthv vieor is Electric Bitters. This medicine is purely vegetable, acts by eiving tone to the nerve centres in the I " . . . - ii r stomacn. eenuy siimuiaies ine uiwr and Kidneys, and aids these organs in throwing off impurities in the blood. Electric Bitters improves the appetite, aids digestion, and is pronounced by those who have tried it as the very best blood purifier and nerve tonic Trv it. Sold for 50c or f 1.00 per bot tle at E. T. Whitehead & Co.'s Drug Store. FOR CHILDREN. BE GOOD WHEN YOUNG. The Way it Works, Youth' 's Advocate. Do you see those little boys-out there by the roadside? They are naughty little boys, and are doing a naughty trick. See, they have tied a little dog with a rope to one of the stay wires of a telegraph pole, and are throwing stones'at him-to see him jump back and forth. How cruel ! Good boys would never do such a thing, never ! Hear the dog's piteous barking as he leaps from side to side to avoid the stones thrown at him. These bovs think it fun, but they will see their mistake some day. How do you sup pose they would iie to be in the dog's place? Well, that is just what will happen to them one of these days See those boys there running away from the milkman's wagon. -He had left it at the gate just leng enough to bring us in some milic ; and these little boys, who spend most of tfteir time running about the streets of Tokyo, came up and were meddling with it, with the intention, Lhalf suspect, off drinking some of the milk if they got a chance. The milkman happened to see them, though, and now they are scampering away, thinking only of escaping present punishment ; but their deed will overtake them some day, never fear, and they will not then be able to run away from it, either. That little girl who sits there on the front seat is not a very kind-hearted little girl ; she is selfish, and" wants things all to herself. She doesn't want the littls girl sitting beside her to look on the same book with her. I have gone to her several times to show her how sfte should bold the book between them,, so that both can look on and sing: but she doesn t like this, and snatches the book away and turns her back. Don't you think this is awfully naughty? Little girls in Japan are for the world just like little girls in America : some of them are not always good. What'do you think they will be like when they are grown up? I will teiryou inanother paragraph. See that police station just there at the corner of our yard ? Look what a crowd have gathered there ! See the two policemen standing there In their white clothes, and with their glittering, ong swords dangling at 'their hips! Immediately before them stand two people, as you see, a man and a woman. Who are they? The man is that little boy who tied the dog, and then pelted nim with stones for sport ; the woman is that little girl who would not let her little friend sing with her from the same book. You see I told you a little while gone they would not always be able to run away from their naughty tricks-like the boys did from the milk wagon, lney are overtaKen ai last, and their fun is turned into mourning. See the poor man with his wan eyes, worn expression, and standing hair. The retribution for punishing that little dog and a thousand other such naughty tricks when he was a boy now weigh like lead upon him. He and his wife don't get on well; they fuss and fight. He has come to the police man for relief ; but, ah, poor man, he has sought relief from the wrong source. The trouble does not lie with the po liceman to settle ; there is something wrong inside of the man and woman. It has grown to be a monster, and leads them whithersoever it will. Some times it sets them to fighting, again it makes them steal, and at other times play false to each other. See the tears trickling down the woman's face, as she wipes them away with her apron and tells her side of the story. It is awfully hard lor her to tell it straight, von know : she is not accustomed to that sort of talk straight talk, I mean. Now the poor little babe that she is instliner an and down on her back be gins to cry. It is getting its first les sons to walk in the ways of its father and mother. It is hard for a stream to rise above its fountain, you know ; but he that connects himself with the true Fountain shall rise higher and higher unto the perfect day. It is very danger- nns not to be good when you are yOUIlg. J jXX JjA vAJUr.i The Grandest Remedy. Mr. R. B. Greeve, merchant, of Chit howie. Va.. certifies that he had Con sumption, was given up to die, sought all medical treatment that money could procure, tried all cough remedies he could hear ot, but got no relief ; anniii. mflnv ni&hts sitting up in a chair ; was induced to try Dr. King's New Discovery, and was cured by use ot two bottles. For past three years has been attending to business, and- Tir. Kine'8 New Discovery' is the grandest remedy ever made, as it has Anna an much for him and also for others in his community. Dr. King's Tliscoverv is guaranteed for finiKfha Colds and Consumption. It don't fail. Trial bottles free at JS. 1 Whitehead & Ca'a Drug Store.. At an enormnng expense, we Imys issued a beautiful Carpet Cataloguo, lithographed in colors, which ia bo nat ural that the colored plates ia this book look exactly like the carpet's every color and every flower la repro duced. Kvory prade Is Included in this cata logue (29!. to tl.Si') :ud remember thU book U ySEK, AND WJ5 PAY; ALL POSTAGE. If you wish us to mail quality Bamples, ecud us 8c lu stamps to cover expense. VVe have ieeti doinpr business in BalH more for 48 yeara and you run no risk In buyina from tho mill. I)r"p R rostal now for our catalogue and save tlio bi yf . profits you are paying tha middleman. " Our Furniture Catalogue is also free. JULIUS HIKES & SOX, Baltimore, Md. Please mention this paper. FOR 1897 ITOW OPEU! Cooper's Warehouse, ROCKT? MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA- Secures the Highest Prices for the Tobacco Farmers. Every Customer's wants are met if possible, and eyery needed attention t 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. 9 9 3m The Manners of Parents. Monroe Journal. We hear a good deal said about the behavior ol childreu in these days, and these remarks are often the reverse of complimentary, but no one as yet has seemed to seriously consider the man ners of grown people in relation to children, though nowhere is the law oi cause and effect more clearly manifest ed. If parents are habitually courte ous to their children, the children al ways have pleasant manners. If they are rude, so are the children, lhey reflect the manners of their elders as a mirror does the object by which It -is surrounded. Many parents who are well bred in their equals never" trouble thejnselves to be considerate in their behavior to their own children. In deed, there are parents who actually seem to think that it is not well to be courteous to a child. "Say 'Thank you'," I heard a mother command a little . daugnter when she had tied a sash for her. "You never say 'Thank you' to me," returned the child instantly. "It is not my place to say 'Thank you,' to you. You are my child, ana it is your duty to do whatever I order, responded the mother. The child quietly walked from the room with firm shut lips and flashing eyes, and the mother never noticed that her command had not been obey ed. How often do wo command when we should request. "Pass the bread," "Shut that door." We do not know the author of the above, but there is more wisdom in it than there is meat in a nut. Don't Poison the Cow. Our Dumb Animals. Every unkind treatment to the cow poisons the milk. Throwing stones at her, frightening her, even talking un kindly to her, may poison the milk. m m Our lives please God when they make sinners want to know Christ. . FOR 0ER FIFTY YEARS Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for over fifty yeara by mil lions of mothers for their children while teething, with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, -allays all pain, cures wind collie and is the best remedy lor uiarrnoea. iiwm relieve the poor little sufferer imme diately. Sold by Druggists in every part of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for ''Mrs. Winslow'a Soothing Syrup," and take no other kind. . 1 ly. WATCHES! We are always ready to sell you tint right kind of a time-piece at the ntht. kind of a price. There is not bin- better than the best, and no honest man can sell an honest article lower tli.tu the low water mark. There is a Jimit both ways, and we come up to those limits and offer you as good as you can 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, &e. for sale. Our personal attention of 40 years experi ence given to repairing. Satisfaction guaranteed. JAS. H. BELL, The Jeweler, TARBORO, N. C. 2 18 ly Subscribe to The commonwealth. C. COOPER, ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. 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. COTTON 7 l-2c. You can buy as many goods at our store now for 5c cotton as you could when cotton was 7c. The reason for this, we have expert buyers on the Northern markets with cash picking up jobs and bargains and shipping to us almost daily. See a tew of our prices. Carpeting several patterns 12 to 27c. Remnants heavy wool carpeting 25 cents, worth 75c. Nice bureaus, large mirrors $3.25. A new lot of bedsteads $ 1.25 tof 2.50. Cane bottom chairs 45c7 worth 75c. Large crayon size frames gilt and oaki white and gilt 26 and 30 inches 99c. Towels 18x26 inches 5c, 25x50 inches 8c. Linen towels 20x37 inches 15c, 25x52 inches 25c. Ladies' winter wrappers 65c. Heavy winter percales 1 yard wide oc. Good black dress serge 1 yd wide 20s. Cashmere dress goods 1 yd wide 22s. Fancy late style drees goods 1 yd wide 18c. White counterpanes 2x2 yds 50c. White counterpane very heavy nnd laree 65c Long ribbed hose heavy 5c. Men's Sunday shoes 98c, $1.10, Jfl.25. Ladies' " " 65c, 75c, $1.00. 25 inch plaid dress goods 3ic. 27 inch " " " 4c. White cotton cloth 3c. We are receiving thousands of things which we cannot mention. All cheap, fresh and new. Come quick. SPIERS & DAVIS, Oct. 20th, 1897. Weldo.v, N. C. See Here! YOU can save from 20 to 60 per cent, on all orders for Fruit and Orna mental trees by buying of . J. Y. Savage, Scotland Neck, N. C. Agent for Emporia Nurseries, Emporia, Va. 1 7 ly Mi 1! -mm St ' '::.' f' :M .-.Sii.; em ' . . tr.'1 ''i"Vst! ;y"-jf';I 3 mi . M.I' For sale by E. T. Whitehead- & Co. E. T. Whitehead & Co. E. T. WHITEHEAD & CO.
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