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if--'- w - . . .- iii mm Hl I r , . ,',V:, ADVERTISING IS TO - BUSINESS "iVTT AT c IS I TOU iflll -ADVERTISE TOUS Business. Macliiiiery, ";v'VM Grkvt "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00. VOL. Xm. Sew Series Vol; 2. SCOTLAND NECK, N O., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1897. Send Your Advertisement in Now. THAT DEKS NO. 50 Xr T' ' IF YOU ARE fuSTLER ' to M U Y W W r W K 1 L ' M II I I ( I I V- If- HIlTttnn I .w uiu rrupriciOT. THAT YOU Wish your Aivertisoment TO KiiaCii ithe ck3 who read this paper. Fifty Years Ago. Ko theory of germs to chill Affection'9 budding blisses; When ardent lovers took their fill, No microbes on their kisses. How happy they were not to know The germ-fad 50 years ago. Ayer's Cheriy Pectoral is the standard family remedy of the world for colds, coughs sad lung diseases. It is not a palliative, and is not therefore pat up in small cheap bottles. It is put up in large bottles for the household. They cost more but cure more. Fads come and go but no theory or fad can overthrow the fact, that the greatest cure for all colds, coughs and throat and lung diseases, is Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. 50 Years of Cures. For sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co. Scotland Neck, N. C. PROFESSIONAL. IB. A. G. LIVEEMON, OmcE-Over the Staton Building. Dice hours from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to 10 mock, p. m. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. i A. DUNN, ATTORNE Y-A T-L AW. Scotlaxd Neck, N C. Practices wherever his services are Rfjuired. iVID BELL, Attorney at Law, ENFIELD, N. C. TWtw. " n r!,nra f TTali- biand adjoining counties and in the I Mvl.l'vl0 111 ail LUV VKUA V eapreme and J: ederal Courts. Claims tollected in all parts of the State. 2. W.J. WARD, . - Surgeon Dentist, Enfield, N. C. Office over Harrison's Drnp Store.' pWARD L. TRAVIS, ' Attorney and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. friloney Loaned on Farm Lands. JOWARD ALSTON, Attorney-at-Law, LITTLETON, N. C. ltherfrolic and leave the worsnip in II ATTORNEY-at-LAW, HALIFAX, N. C. . JAIL v. MATTHEWS, . ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. t!ollection of Claims a specialty. K2lr ENFIELD, N. C. jjC. A. WHITEHEAD, DENTAL fS&J UUI&UVH) Tarboro.N. C. ENGLISH KITCHEN, 187 Min St., NORFOLK, VA. fcthe 1- r,::" , -iug iimng Awm m uw r" Ladies and Gentlemen. Strict temperance Place. All meals 25c. 'fcETH,3d80n' Surpassing Coffee a Ciirflrnnn THE EDITOR'S LEISUEE HOUBS. .Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. 'The dignity of labor" seems to be an idea of the past with some people I who ought to be glad of a chance to give prominence to it. A good, and nonest, and industrious farmer said a few days ago that somehow he has come to teel that people think less of him when he is laboring with his own hands. We told him our opinion o: the matter ; to wit, that the opinion of one who thinks less of a man because he labors is ot worth noticing. Labor on, good friend, when you can find something to do ; and care , not for the ! opinion or the prating of a fool. The South needs to learn one thing which it has not yet learned ; and that is to pay more attention to patronizing home industries. Why send to the I North or the West for that which may be had at our own door? The Chamber of Commerce in Rich mond is taking the right view of the matter in pieaging tnrougn its mem bers to use Richmond flour instead of sending West for flour. There are knitting mills -in Scotland ! Neck and Kinston, which give employ ment to a number of worthy women and girls, besides a man and boy now and then. Now, suppose the women of Eastern Carolina should say : "These mills are giving . employment to our neighbor women and children to whom it is a blessing to have the opportuni ty of making their own living ; and we will wear stockings manufactured in no other mills as long as we can get these home-made articles?" Such a course would be the means of enlarging every such enterprise within our borders, and belore another year should roll by there would be evidence of a prosperity for which we ' all long and pray, but for which we actually do very little. While The Commonwealth is pure ly a secular paper, It comes within its purview to comment an "passing events" of any nature. And sitting in the shadows of a past Thanksgiving Day, some reflections upon its observ ance might not be misdirected. Thanksgiving, as such, is a mere farce as it is kept by most people. The custom, to be sure, is a beautiful one, and no one couia nguuy qucowwn iu appropriateness of it ; but the manner in which it is generally observed is farcical indeed. The President of the United States every year sends out his Thanksgiving Proclamation, which is right and proper. The Governors of the various States take up the matter and issue a like proclamation which coincides in time with that of the President. The Mayors of towns and cities sometimes do likewise, and all this is well enough. Then service is announced for the various churcties throughout the landand especially in the cities and towns. - But when the, day comes for worship in thanksgiving and alms for the poor, the male population of the cities and towns generally go hunting or on some thanksgiving and alms to tHe women and children. In a church which has a member ship of a third of a thousand sometimes only a third of a hundred male persons may be counted at Thanksgiving ser vice, of whom one-fifth perhaps could be counted boys under eighteen, and the' balance of the congregation made up ot women. It would seem that a special thanks giving service once a year would be as important as a christian man could at tend, to prove his faith in the God he professes to serve and the rengiou - hih iie professes to trust. Rnt. wft did not mean to give such a . .i lontnre on the farce of lenzinv pretendedThanksgivingDay. Only let us wrk that the unsaved part of human - ity would have gYeater respect and con fidence m the Christian religion if men ur would "prove their faitn Dy oyw;" their works" n Thanksgiving ,,, .Ator the drunkard makes .righteous hatred 6t the aaloon. BE COIN TENT. AND YET BE DISCONTENT.' Some Rambling Thoughts. BY, "NEMO.' (Copyrighted by Dawe & Tabor.) The wish of men to fly has never yet caused wings to bud, but the wish has been father to numberless thoughts about free movement over the face of the earth, and thus asses,camels, horses, and so forth have been broken to our use, and used until too slow for our hastening spirits. From them we have passed to steam, to electricity, to com pressed air, and to other" forms of pro pulsion. Even the flying machine is rapidly nearing a commercial possibili ty. Better than the birds who fly, yet UCUB uiusu rest, our servants carry us, e"k ..1. C a I Iit i t t so that we skim the earth through proxy efforts and eat or sleep or trans act business while being flitted from place to place bv tireless machinery. But I do not write this in order to minister to human pride ; on the con trary, it is to point a moral for those whose hearts somtimes feel like burst ing at being shut away in a narrow place. 1 Know just how you feel ; eager to do great things, sure that you could do them if you had a chance, and yet prevented by conditions that seem cruel in themselves, and more cruel when you see how they are hindering you. Have patience at least for nve minutes and let us draw a little in spiration from poor wingless man, who being without powers ot flight and yet desirous of such powers learning that onging for the boon does not grant him his wish sets his brain to work. Its results we know. Like the traveler who scales a cliff by turning this way and that, the absence of wings is a lim itation that has been set aside. Apply this method to yourself, pin ing and eager one. Mere longing for different circumstances will never bring them. Opportunities are not breed by pulling wish-bones, nor do chances come by chiding fate. Since ou can not be in two places at once, your place for the present is precisely the place you are in, and if viewed aright you will be loth to change it un til you have done your all with it. The most solemn spot in the world for you, is the spot you stand on ; for it is your resting place not some one else's but yours it is your opportunity to show what a man with limitations can do and can dare. Transported suddenly from where you are doing less than your all for that must be true if you are 'grumbling and f umingto new circumstances that seem ideal, you will still find reasons for discontent. But if where you are, you make a wholesome blending of content, and discontent content that you know your limitations and discontented to the extent of fit ting yourself for wider scope, the time of fuller, more satisfactory life is practi cally certain to come. The waiting may be long, but even if long or the change forever deferred you will have done well. - Overworked one, pressed with anxie ties and harassed by those who ought to, but do not seem to co-operate with you, calm yourself. You are like a tangled kite, tearing yourself to pieces in a thicket, instead of the eagle you should- be, soaring far above. You know full well that the work you are doing needs to de done ; that it is laid upon you to do it ; and in your heart you try to feel that the man and the task will surely fit. Believe this with your whole heart and little annoyances will assume their proper size, in your calm moments you are tunned by the things you intend to accom plish during life; multiply your calm moments by sheer exercise of will and your beliefjn your own purposes win carry you far above petty interruptions. You are m a battle, fight it through. Would you in such a place pay any heed to nettles? When the smoke has rolled away and the dust ot conflict settled you shall stand triumphant be neath the silent stars. All of life is not the present harassed moment ; there remaineth an eventide for the solace of those who toil and "triumph. At twenty-five, James Watt, who r A tkn orrti-lff with DtpalYI. nas transioriuov begged for toe benignity of death, so troubled was he, yet he came to be the sweetest, sunniest old man you could wish to meet. , - - Questioning one, do you complain because God is a mystery? Would yqu t -aim ait visible as a treeand as Oub Grandmothers' Remedy. rnnt,tx mAdicine will not cure con- gumption, but Dr. David's Cough Syrup will cure tne cougu wu-u,x.6- .n in consumption; Pure pine II. r-hound and wild cberry-Our tangible as a rock ? Then He would be theone. understandable thing in a world of mystery. Your inner details, your outer life, the two natures within you these are mysteries. The work ings of the mind ot the one you love, hidden as effectually as a stranger's from your own thought this is a mys tery. The impossibility ol a man thoroughly understanding a woman and vice versa this is a mystery Clear out cf your daily life, in its sim plest details, all that is strange ; fathom it all and understand it ; then may you raise querulous complainings at the mystery that hedges arouid the crea tor ot all mysteries. The prisoner prayed that he might have some light ; It came, and showed him but his sor ry plight. The savant prayed for power to pierce the sky ; it came, and, dazed, he begged that I 1 j 1 ne migni cue. , j light as - suits So give us, Lord, such our mind, To know not over much blind. nor wander Bereaved one, weeping bitter tears beside the empty chair, yon are not alone in your sorrow. Human woes have preceded you by ages and human woes will last long after time has taken the smart from your own wound. But these seem naught to you, for they were not your sorrows. Yet, dear one, tribulation has its place and its value you will yet live to see. In tears are great sorrows assuaged, m tears are great purposes born, in tears are noble resolves formed. Rise to live as the vanished one would most fondly wish ! ! Thus will the dead live again in the deeds of good you do, consecrated to the memory ot the lifeless. Bereaved, I fall like a wounded bird From happy heights, to limp along In gloomy yales wherein my song, I think, can never more be heard. And yet; perchance, though stricken sore, And robbed of all I held most dear, Some wiser hand has cast me here To rise to heights undreamt before. Don't Talk of Tour His. "Every one of us has his and ber own ailments,' writes Edward W, Bok in the December Ladies' Home Journ al, decrying the unpleasant habit many people have of discussing their bodily ills. "It is enough for us all to keep well ourselves : to be compelled to" lis ten to the ailments ot others does not make that task any easier. Besides all this, these unnecessary narratives of personal ailments are positively inju rious to ourselves. Physicians all agree that many of the 'slight illnesses, of which some people make so much, could be cured if they would but take their minds from themselves. Too many people work themselves into ill nesses, or prevent themselves from get ting well by talking about a petty ail ment, which, it forgotten, would right itself. I will not say that women, more than men, are prone to this evil. But as the majority of women have more leisure than the majority of men, they are more likely to let their minds dwell upon every little ill that assails them, and talk about it. It seems to me that one of the most important les sons we can all learn with the close of the year is to refrain from inflicting upon others what is purely personal to ourselves. Let us cease this tiresome, this inconsiderate, this unnecessary talK about our ailments. Cold and hard as it may seem, the fact is nevertheless true, and will ever remain so, that tbe vast majority of people are interested in wnat is pleasant in our lives, but not in what is unpleasant. Pains and sorrows are elements in our lives which are sacred and interesting only to our selves." Cocoa Consumption.- Philadelphia Record. ' Tne use of cocoa in Germany during the past 13 years has been largely on tbe increase, having gained in con sumption 315 per cent., while the use of coffee increased only 17 per cent, during the same period. It is believed that the consumption of cocoa has not yet reached its maximum in mat country. ;. FOR OVER 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 colhc, and is the best remedy for DiarrhoBa. It will 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's Soothing Syrup," and lake no other kind. . 1 21 ly. ; THE SWEETEST GIFTS OF LOVE What shall I give her my little girl With the soft dark eyes and the silken net Of tresses, with many a sun-bright curl ? What shall I give her my love, my pet? What shall I give her of beauty and bliss . - . To match the, bright curls that she gives me to kiss? My loye ! I have given her that ! 'tis old Old as her life, though her face is young ; I have given my darling my heart to hold, vvitn tne sweetest songs tnat my heart has sung ! " There is nothing to give her save only " this Ihekisson the curls that she gives me to kiss ! She is climbing up to my arms I see The light of Heaven in ber lovely eyes ; Over the face and the life of me Curl on curl in its splendor lies ! Nothing to give her save only this Ihe kiss on the curls ttiat she gives me to kiss ! . Feank L. Stanton inCbristmas Ladies' Home Journal. Three Bales to the Acre. A correspondent writes as follows to the New Berne Journal : 1 see in an editorial in your paper taken from the North American Ue- view, this startling warning to us who live in Eastern North Carolina r "And surely it is a mistake for the cotton tarmerot im. u., living in a state on tbe border land oLthe cotton belt, to try to compete with the Texas farmers in the production of cotton." Now no doubt the writer of those lines has a vast amount of information on all agricultural questions and tbe masses without investigation accepts bold assertions for well authenticated facts. And with not a tithe of that in lormation, l wisn to make a Doid as sertion and say to the Review and its many readers that, when the last cot ton grower in the United States is starved to death by low prices he will die in Eastern North Carolina, and his interment will be in either Craven cr Pamlico counties. Cotton has been grown in Pamlico county at a cost ot one cent a pound In theiseed delivered at the gin some years ago. ' Cotton has been housed this year in Craven a bale to the acre, following a crop of truck grown on the same land in the spring. Twenty-three bales haye been gath ered from twenty-one acres and several bales yet to be picked out and in another similar instance. With corn and bacon for his house hold, and forage for his team as most of them have in abundance, the East ern North Carolina farmer can bear with patience any insinuation that he is a fool to attempt to compete with Texas in cotton growing or in anything else. H- BETTER STILL. Since writing the above I - have been reliably informed that a man in Pam lico county bas made twelve bales of cotton on four acres1 this season. Sunny Booms Make Sunnr Lives. Let us take the airiest, choicest and sunniest room m the house, says the Home, for our living room the work shop where brain and body are built up and rewarded ; and there let ns have a bay window, no matter how plain in structure, through which the good twin angels sunlight and pure air can freely enter. This window shall be the poem of the house. It shall give freedom and scope to sun sets, the tender green and changing tints of spring, the glow of summer, the pomp of autumn, the white of winter, storm and sunshine, glimmer and gloom all these we can enjoy as we sit m our sheltered room,' as tbe changing ears roll on. Dark rooms bring depression of spirits, imparting sense of confinement of isolation, of powerlessness, which is chilling to en ergy and vigor, but in light is good cheer. Even in a gloomy I juse, where the walls are dingy brown, you have but to take down the dingy cur- curtaina, ooen wide the window, hang brackets on either side, set flower pots on the brackets and ivy in the pots, and let the warm air stream in, See that the wood shed is filled with good dry wood, so that no trouble may be had during Wet T.eather in securing tbe fuel necessary to cook meals and make home comfortable. N. C. Chris tian Advocate. If you are anxious to find the most reliable blood-purifier, read in Ayer's Almanac tbe testimonials of those who have been cured of such 1 terrible dis eases as catarrh, rheumatism, and scrof ula, by tbe use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Then govern yourself accordingly. Sold by E. Whitehead & Co. ' No. 203. Thisquar-ter-awed oak writing desk is pol ished like piano. It has a 9-lnch beveled J date gtaas n top and s deepdmwe below. Ar tistic French legs; also finished In mahogany. Q3.95 is our spec ial price for this $10 desk. (Mail orders filled promptly.) We will mail anyone, free of all charges, our new lis page Special Cata logue, containing Furniture, Draperies, Lamps. Stoves, Crockery. Mirrors, Pictures. Bedding. Refrigerators, Baby Carnages, etc. This is the most com plete book ever published, and we pay all postage. Our lithographed Carpet Catalogue, showing carpets in colors, ia also yours for the asking. If carpet samples are wanted, mall us to. in stamps. There is no reason why you should pay your local dealer do per. cent, profit when you can buy from the mill. Drop a line now to the money-savers. JULIUS HINES & SON, Baltimore, lid. Please mention this paper. FOR Cooper's Warehouse, ROCKY 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 servejny friends, I respectfully solicit C. 9 9 3m Birds at Play. Youth's Companion. Birds are usually merry creatures, but the birds that build play houses for their own enjoyment must b9 of a peculiarly sportive nature. A few years ago a gentleman who was bunting in the wilds of New Guinea made ac quaintance with these birds and their play-houses. He found himself in front of a neatly built cabin about a foot and a half high, in the midst of a meadow of rich green mosses studded with flowers. The cabin was much better made than tbe huts of the na tives. A flat piece of ground, on which grew a small tree about tbe size of a ight walking-stick,- had beeu chosen, and upon it the cabin was erected, with the little tree for its centre post. Stems of an air-plant wbich would live and grow after they had been built into the structure formed the walls and root, and fluttered their tiny leaves about the doorway that led to the garden, where bright flowers and gaily colored berries and the feathers of beautiful birds lay scattered about. it waa imt till afterward that the in- I truderlearned that the designers of the tiny playhouse and pleasure-grounds were little birds. ' First cousins to thegardner-birds, says Mr. J. Carter Beard in Popular Science News, are the bower-birds of Australia. These birds build bowers n wbich they meet to dance and frolic. The walls are strongly formed of twigs and small branches woven together, and the whole structure is covered with a layer ol beautiful grasses. The playhouses are further orna mented inside and out with shells, shining pebbles, gay scraps, little bones, arid skalla of wild birds bleached white, together with the green and gold and scarlet feathers of parrots. After the male birds have built the arbors they leave their little mates to decorate themj . which they do with great zest, often flying miles to find some glittering object that suits their taste. When all is completed the birds repair to the bower to enjoy themselves as if in a ball-room, bowing and danc- ng, turning about and chasing eayi 5ther up and down in a whirl of spor) ve delight. To Keep off the Geip. -Some people imagine there's no use trvinjr to keen off grip, . butthe only people wbo are peculiarly liable to grip are those whpe systems are run uown. If you have built up your system for tbe winter, all you will need is to take proper care ol yourself ; but if your blood is thin or impure the thing to do is to take several bottles of David's Sarsaparilla. The great blood, purifier and strength builder. WATCHES! We are always ready to sell you the right kind of a time-piece at the nirht kind of a price. There is nofMnii better than the best, and no lionest man can sell an honest article lower than tbe low water mark. There is a limit both way?, and we come up to those limits and offer you as go"i -is you can get as cheap as it can be sold. If yon want an honest, reliable wntch at the lowest possible price, patronize ur. Watches, Diamonds, Jev.r',i)r Solid Silverware'01oc!:i, &c. for si!c. Gnr personal attention of 10 yenrs ei- ence given to ren;iirins. Saltskuiica guaranteed. JAS. H. BELL. The Jeweler, TaRSOo. t; 2 TS ly Subscribe to The commonwealth. 1897 and thanking them for past custom it again for this season. t C. COOPER, ROOKY MOUNT, X. C 17. L. DOUCLAS P3 08"iWs tho World. For 14 years tli nbK, bv iitc.it alone, has distanced nil cnmpatltor. W. L. Douglas S4.04 unci S.ACI hoes are the production tit .fc jltct workmen, from the bebt mator'nl jjost;'.!" jit thow jW"a, Also :-..! AX.4H ;iof-3 IV.v i : S).0O and $.7A for f o '? y.-.it),n. W. L. Duttarlns :Uo' o.e Wi'. r.. el by over I.OO'Vaa wi-.ircrg as ini b;.M In atyl, at and dure baity of ar.y snoe ever offw. 'l at. tbe price. ,They are mlb i:i a,i tin., ip'est napes and style, and tvery wi I ety of leather. If dealer cannot supplv toti vrlte Tot rote JOgue to W.L. Doitgiac, 2i uckioh, Kom. old by E, SHIELDS, SCOTLAND NEK, N. 0. 11113m. Where WE BUY, Si'IL AND EXOIl AlS vitt TO GET BOOKS, Furniphinjr the iw "DAATTCJ f Books at Pui,!i;-!n:r' j2Ww Jimw I Frices when we huvo m - not the seeu-:.:i bund AT HALF PRICE! Send for Catalogue and Price. t& oiry TO BE HAD! SOUTHERN BOOS SXCHA17G3, No. 127 Fayetteville St. Phone 253 Ii M.M. Smith, 9 23 2m Raleigh, N. a Mention this paper. jnnio & HDBBA1, -GENERAL- Commission Merchants And Dealers in COUNTRY PRODUCE AND SOUTH ERN FRUITS. Quick Sales. Trial Ship- Prompt Returns. ments Solicited. Nfi. l5 Roanoke Dock, NORFOLK, - VIRGINIA- Reference : City .National Bank, Nor folk; First National Bank, Gainsyille, Fhu 9 306m j 2' -Ajnsfs, in. Cheaps y - f M f 1 ' i y. :M -v. yi "!M ; lit 'V Utf -'- 'Zv t ."P y'W :y& y.-w X "te.
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