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Lowell. ZXaaa. Far sale' bv E. T. Whitehead & Co. Scotland Neck, N. C. PEOFESSIONAL. IJR.A. C. LIVERMON, tare-Over the Staton Building. liSce honis from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to (o'clock, p.- ml SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. I L DUNN, ATT OR X E Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices wherever his services are I Rcairei iTTD BELL, Attorney at Law, ENFIELD, N. C. Practices in all the Court3 of Hall oaed adjoining counties and in the Supreme and Federal Courts. Claims feed in all parts of the State. 12. W.J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, Enfield, N. C. lover Harrison's Drue Store. m " 1 " pARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. &Honey Loaned on Farm Lands. r WARD ALSTON, Attorney-at-Law, LITTLETON, N. C. ---'I.FUIIGERs6n. ATTORNEY-at-LAW, S9l HALIFAX, N. C. 1 C A. WRTtptit? a t DENTAL A Surgeon, Tarboeo, N. C. 0?e Whn Wi; i ' 2 . . t - . . , wiicve coronic Qiarrnoea P.Er.nrable should read what Mr. -3 m ao . . : ' ' s. U'V JL ITni 1111(9 IIIUU. r.t ti n r.it -r u J UQ me SllhlPff viv - "T hoira ?erln5frfrom chronic diarrhoea KndM"lIi?War and have tried all weaicmes for it. At last I d tfc. iaat enacted a cure Cherry I; CWali8 Chamberlain's Colic, "Micinp whOTa Remedy." This fercohc k ? ays 1)6 depended upon iiarrh6 a morbus, dysentery nevfi, ra- 14 18 Peasant o take AC?8 8816 by E.T.White- THE EDITOE'S LEISUBH EOUES. Points ana Paragrapns of Things Present, Past ana Future. The Aberdeen Telegram tells of great improvement in Moore county. The sand hills of that county that t tewjrears ago were regarded as worth less are becoming valuable. Grapes, peaches, plums, and berries are being cultivated there with great profit, and the lands that formerly were barely worth taxes now bring a good price, There have been more miles of rail- a l i. r ... . ... ruau uuut in mat county this year than in any other county in the State. mi nr r . J.UB luunroe journal tersely par agraphs on patriotism. The politi clans, says our contemporary, may be patriots, but it is an exception to the rule. The real patriots, it says, "Are not those who talk most of patriotism but they are the men who go about theii daily work in the fear of God, and from day to day and year to year, dp their duty as they see it." This is sound truth, and The Com monwealth beneves that there is no more genuine patriots in this land than the temperance advocates ; for they are certainly engaged in a cause that tends to lilt up the people. At the Grand Camp of Virginia Con federate Veterans in Richmond last week, the history committee presented the following resolutions : 'Resolved, That only such histories as fairly present .- the principles and facts upon which is grounded our American Republic be used, with due acknowledgment )f the actors in the foundation of the same, and its preser vation from every 'section.' In this spirit we would recommend -as Virgin ia histories those of Mrs. Mary Tucker McGill and General D. H. Maury, and as histories of the United States those of Mrs. SusanPendleton Lee, Rev. J. William Jones, Shinn, Hansel series and Holmes." There is much idle labor in the land and there is argument that labor-saving machinery is partially responsible. The Plymouth Beacon tells what a gentleman said recently in that town as he observed changes and idleness. He said : "I was in Plymouth just iorty years ago, ana have not been here since. Then there were at least 500 men at work in the big swamps near the town, making shingle, but now I find that there are but very few hand-made shingles to be found. In place of the hundreds of men who thus found em ployment we find - the steam mills where, with the improved machinery, one man can make more shingles in a day than could the too men by . hand, and what is true in this branch of busi ness is also true in every other kind of business. In the mills, in the factories, and even on the farm, we find feat improved machinery is fast forcing men out, and hence the cause of so much idle labor." Senator Ben Tillman of South Caro lina is failing in health, and there . is great concern in that State about his condition. Whatever else may be said about Tillman, he had enacted the best liquor law that the country has tried, unless it be real Neal Dow-prohibition. A prominent Democrat of South Car olina is reported as saying: "wnn Tillman out of South Carolina politics the Reform party is dead. Without Tillman's leadership it will soon disin tegrate, and the old Hampton regime will again dominate State politics. The conservative faction has been praying and watting for the climax that now seems imminent as the result of Till man's retirement from active public life. The 'immediate effect will be seen wnen e ouum next winter. If McLaunn llUl W M - A. is elected, according to the primary mandate, and in view of the interven ing conditions suggested, it will mean the end of the Reform party as a dis tinctive organization. His election will unify the party, and result m the event of Senator Tillman's" death, in the election of a Democrat of the old regime. Among the most prominent names mentioned in this connection is that of Colonel JVC. Hemphill, editor the Charleston News and Courier. A person is prematurely old when l.SJL Tfcfore the forty-fifth Unluueso vpv.. . " it- TTiia TTnir -Kenewer w year. nrevent keep the scaip- uo"u r VOTERS' DOFTS. WHO ABE "THE PEOPLE ?" SELFISH OFFICE-HOLDERS. Some Rambling Thoughts. BY NEMO. (Copyrighted by Dawe & Tabor.) 'lo voters, II : I have no doubt that in a general way you agree with I the statement that "the people" can be trusted ; perhaps because - the phrase sounds familiar, as nearly every one asserts it. But like our assent to a great many scraps of proverbial wis dom, we too often agree to statements Without thinking of all that they Im ply. Please look with me a little deep er ; not that I would shake your . faith in the people, but rather that you may have your faith in them increased. . The figures in a picture" gain largely by the kind of background they have. National great-men gain by a similar condition, and for them the back ground is "the people." Without a people to lead and a people to voice, where would our great men be? The people are those ordinary, hard-work ing ones, who continue their duties steadily under this administration or under that ; always findable at the post of honest labor. But these people dif fer largely from the people of almost any other nation, since our political institutions are based upon their wills or whims. The necessity of their having right ideas is therefore para mount. The necessity also of showing them national dangers is also extreme, since by their voices and their votes, they are the arbiters of our national fate. Are we agreed so far? V Then once more ; whoHre "the peo- j pie"? You and I, and others like us ! But as 1 am writing to you and you are reading ; for the time being you alone, solitary, particularized are "the people." -This I say, sacrificing even grammar, in order to have a close talk with you. As "the people" can you be trusted ; are your motives high ; are your political actions pure? Come now, it is no useassentmg to a general idea unless you are willing to make genuine application of it. V THE PEOPLE'S STRENGTH. O, can it be this lordly fane, The sacred guard of hallow d bones, Was once but rough uneven stones, Quarried by common hands for gain? Yet rude and worthless though each be, With them is raised this temple fair, A fault, a weakness anywhere May mar the perfect symmetry. O, can it be, this mighty force, That nations make oi rends apart, Is nothing but the people's heart Made up of units fine or coarse ? Yet, lowly as may be their state, This lesson doth the building teach That nothing but true life from each Can make a nation wholly great. If you are so wrapped up in your own business, which you ere able to quietly pursue under the protection of a quiet government, that you do not take even time to register and to vote, you are not to be trusted, since you take all you can of personal gain from our national conditions and do not re pay anything. You Are selfish, yet there is one worse than you the dif ference between negative selfishness and positive the one who holds office and administers it selfishly. Of him we will say something, because he is made possible by lazy voters. If you delude yourself into the be lief that every man has an equal voice in the destinies of the country, and then .give actual denial to it by surren dering your independence of judgment to a boss who thinks for you, nomi nates for you because you will not at tend caucusses and primaries and votes for you, then as a voter you are not to be trusted. You are the right, plastic material out of which he shapes his selfish ends. Assuming you to be a good man, he reckons a good man in dolent, as of less weight than a fly on a chariot wheel ; and so you a unit in our national life become a mere cipher. The precious staff of lite to our na tion is that you and all like you should have a choice of candidates, but only a loaf ortmsks is given you when you are offered a choice between candidates, af ter you have by your absence from the primary left others to think for you. FOR 0ER FIFTY YEARS Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for over fifty years by mil lions of mothers for their children while teething, with perfect success. It soothes the child,- softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind collie, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor little sufferer imme diately. Sold by Druggists in every Dart of the world. Twenty-five cents a hnt.tle. Be sure, and ask for " Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup," and take no other kind. 1 zl-ly. If you get the idea of party so firmly ground in your heart, perhaps because you were born a this or a that that you will vote for a bad man in your party rather than for a good man in another, then as a voter you are not to be trusted. You haye not in any sense risen to a comprehension of the fact that you are first, last, and all the time, a custodian of national rather than party health. In brief, the line of voting cleavage is well, if it be be tween party and party whose actual dif ferences partisans would sometimes find ltuhard to explain. I would soon er trust an honest man -who differed from me, than the sly and smug politi cian who agrees to anything to get -office and then recks no though the country "go hang." r ' V As a man you know that a feeding covered with ornaments is rtt render ed thereby one particle firmer in its foundations ; you know that the eolor of a sail in stormy weather is of less importance than its qualities of strength. As a man, therefore, I look to you to believe that neither money nor miles are the things to make us as a nation endure forever. If ever you are relying on the mere outer circum stances of national life as your pride and your confidence, you are a voter who cannot be trusted, since your view is too narrow and your reliance too un reliable. The national cohesive force is the character of the individual. In the place of boastings of wealth, lean upon men, men of morals and men of mind, and be one of them yourself, on the principle that national charity begins at home. i SOME-VQTEKS' DON'TS. Don't make loud declarations and neglect deeds. Don't boast of freedom and indepen dence unless you really possess it." Don't di vide on dead issues, whose carcasses ought long ago to have been buried. Don't forget to think of your child ren's children, for whom by your watchfulness, please God ! there shall still stand a government worthy ol pride. mm mm Other Folks' Fni "A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the best of men." Every girl who has gone through love affair, owns an ivory toilet set a plush box as a souvenir. It is a in as as much a staple gift in such an affair a rattle box for a baby's first birth day. His Wife And you are to defend that shoplifter? The Lawyer Aly dear, she isn't a shoplifter. She was, formerly ; but she has saved so much money in the last ten years that she has become a kleptomaniac. Why should loquacious girls be belles? Pray answer me this riddle, I make a guess it is because Their tongues hang in the middle. 'Happened to see your wife on a wheel yesterday. If I remember, I heard yon declare you would never allow her' to ride." "Yes, I know, but she had a chance to trade off her pug dog for a wheel and I thought I would choose the least evil." -p sa m I : Head, Young Ladies. Our Dumb Animals. Love a young man whd loves his mother so fondly that for her sake he is chivalrous to other women. Love a young man who is pure-hearted. Love a young man who believes there is a nobler career in life than to be a gocd dancer or a successful society man. Love a young man who is not asham ed of tears for others' sorrows, or a ten der song or for a beautiful thought. Love a young man who cannot be laughed out of a duty. , In Webster's Old Home. . Selected. -A tourist who has been looking over Daniel Webster's big farm at Mareh field, Mass., found but one person who was acquainted with the statesman. A former superintendent of the farm still survives, and relates how he drove the oxen past Webster's window in order to gratify the dying man's desire to see them once more. The old superintend ent denies that Webster was a hard drinker, and insists that the only trou ble was that he did not have as much money as he needed. BUCKLENIS ARNICA SALVE. The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sore3, 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 g CO. ' THE NATION'S CAPITOL. CARE OF THE GREAT BUILDING OCCUPIED BY CONGRESS. Functions of the Police and the Guides. Washington Star. The strictness with which the police regulations of the Capitol are enforced now calls attention to the great change that has been brought about at the Capitol during the past few years. The interest attached to this great building renders it more than a rdSte meeting place for the national legislature. It is the chief attraction at . Washington to all vtsitors. Nobody ever visits Wash ington as a touristy without spending some time in theCapitdl building, and the presence of the two legislative bodies in session is scarcely the chief attraction. While comparatively few persons are In the galleries ot the House and Senate from day to day, the corridors and ante-rooms, the rotunda and the statuary hall are nearly always pretty well filled with people. About a dozen guides make a good living by showing people around. Every picture, every statue, however poorly executed, every column and almost every stone and piece of plaster in the internal dec oration is an object of interest. Even the echoes that vibrate from the vault ed ceilings seem to be an endless source of curiosity and entertainment. The result is that the public lose sight of the fact that the Capitol is pri marily a business building,, and that work is being done there which it is not always conyenient to have inter rupted. Certain privacy that has to be secured in parts of the building dur ing business hours excites more or less resentment, but Congress would be much slower in its work than it is if the visiting public were allowed to have their way. Moreover, it it were not for the rigid observance of police regulations the building would be neither a safe nor a reputable place. Many thousand per sons are in the building nearly every day ; there is a vast expanse of corri dors, running in many directions, with sharp angles and secluded retreats. A considerable army might be concealed in the underground passageways along the foundations, and even an explosion might occur there without being heard in the occupied portions of the build ing, and in the hundreds of committee rooms heayen knows what might be going on. It is only of comparatively recent years that gambling has been broken up in the Capitol building. It was largely on account of the amount of gambling and other disrep utable things that were going on in the building, though the public knew nothing of it, that the police force was reorganized a few years ago and a rigid police patrol instituted. While gamb ling houses were strictly prohibited iu thetty of Washington and strict laws were passed by Congress to destroy hem, many games for big stakes were being played in the committee rooms of Congress, not always by people who had a right to be in the building and not always the social congressional poker parties, but serious games for the money that was in them. Frequently carouses of an extraordi nary character occurred in committee rooms. All sorts of characters haunt ed the building. Strangers were liable to be taken in by croons pretending to be official guides, and ladies were not at all sure of being free from insult. At one time it seemed as if the build ing might get a reputation for evil which would be a disgrace to the capital of the nation. Now there is no building in the country where greater order and pro priety is observed. Gambling in the committee rooms is a thing of the past. When the building is closed for the day no one Is permitted to remain in it unless it is made very clear that he is required to do so to engage in work Lwhich he is employed by the govern ment to do. During the hours that the building is open police are so sta- tioned, that there is no corridor or corner of the interior of the building that some one of them does not over look constantly. 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Any man seen officiously or' impertinently accosting a stranger Is subject to im mediate arrest, and he cannot e.-cape it unless he has some perfectly valid excuse for his action. Bearsrinsr or canvassing in the building is not ier - mitted, and all disreputable characters found in the building are immediately ; Ynrtcui In f !ia riiitwidfi and nntlfipd not 4 i i i t who used to haunt the corridors have been blacklisted, and ji re compelled to keep away. Certain other former habitues who used to carry on flirta tions in the corridors and galleries and Hem wait in the ladies' reception rooms have been notified, one after an other, not to again appear in the build ing. 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You can buy as many goods at our store now for 5Jc 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 sl.-ipping to us almost daily. See a Jew of ourprices. Carpeting several patterns 12 to 27Jc. Remnants heavy wool carpfcting 25 cents, worth toe. Nice bureaus, large mirrors A new lot of tiedstead3 $1.2") (ojf2.50. Cane bottom chairs 45c, wo: t h 75 Large crayon sie frames giifc aud oak, white and gilt 26 and 30 inches 09c. Towels 18x20 inches 5i 25x5' im:;ics be. Linen towels 20x37 inches ,2552 inches 25c. Ladies' winter wrappers 65c. Heavy winter percales 1 yard wuln 8c. Good black dress serge 1 yd vide 20c. Cashmere dress goods 1 yd wide 22 c. Fancy late style dress goods 1 yd wide 18c. White counterpanes 2x2 yds ."0.:; White counterpane, very hevy and large 65c. Long ribbed hose heavy 5c. Men's Sunday shoes 98c, $1.10, $1.25. Ladies' " " 65c, 75c, $1.00. 25 inch plaid dress goods 3c. 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. 20tb, 1897. Weldon, N. C See Here! YOU can save from 20 to 50 per cent, on all ordsrs 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 0. lyrop. TstasGtood. Vmt I iBestCougbi i l in time. in ' rK i5 .mi ti If . -,'Jilfi i s if '1 , ..r..l 1 baldness.
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