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PS0F3SSI0NAL. D K. A. C. LIVERMON, OmcE-Over the Staton Building. Office hours from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to I o'clock, p. m. SCOTLAND NECK, X. C. A. DUNN, A TTO RNE Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, N. C. radices wnerever nis services required. are 0 AVID BELL, Attorney at Law, ENFIELD, N. C. ' Practices in all the Courts of Hali fax and adjoining counties and in the Supreme and Federal Courts. Claims collected in all parts of the State. D R. W. J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, Enfield, N. C. Office over. Harrison's Druf Store.' E DWARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. $6?" Money Loaned on Farm Lands. . J0WARD ALSTON, Attorney-at-Law, LITTLETON, N. C. M c. M. FURGERSON. ATTORNEY-at-LAW, HALIFAX, N. C. 9 9 ly P AUL V. MATTHEWS, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. "Collection of Claims a specialty. 12 2 ly ENFIELD, N. C. D R. C. A. WHITEHEAD, DENTAL Surgeon, Tarboro, N. C. jJUDSM S EK8USH K1TCHEH, 187 Main St., NORFOLK, VA. Is the Leading Dining Room in the City for Ladies and Gentlemen. Strict ly si Temperance Place. AJI meals 25c ' 7"Hudsoh'a Surpassing Coffee a THE EDITORS LEISUBE HOURS, Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. The railway statistics make the number of miles ot railway built in this country during 1897 a little more than in 1895 but not quite so much as in 1896. The new railway built in 1897 was 1,938 miles, in 1896 it was 1,997 miles and in 1895 it was 1,922 miles. The old folks of long ago the very best and best educated by reason of travel would feel tbeir heads swim if they could bodily come back and see the whirl of travel of this last decade of the nineteenth century. It has been three weeks since we left in this column any foot-prints of our wanderings-around in "leisure hours." The financial statement of the county monopolized our entire front page two weeks before Christmas, for theie was so much rush of work just before the holidays that we could not put in an extra with our force. Then skipping last week to give printers a little rest, made up the three weeks that our readers have not known anything of our "leisure hours." So far as we now see we shall be able to keep up our accustomed work for this column and we may continue to call it "leisure." The French people are said to be very fond of the Marseillaise, that wonderful air of their home land. One writing about it says that in an audience of 6,000 people the chorus was led by young men who did not look at the notes ; and so familiar wns it to them that many did not even have notes. Americans do not pay a great deal of attention to our national air ; and we believe that during the past year we had occasion to make mention of the fact in this column, and also to con trast this with the fact that the Eng lish are quite fond of their national air- While it is not probable that the South ever will drive the North out of the business of manufacturing cotton ; it can not be denied that there is .i growing strength in this industry South. The manufacture ol cotton is, of course, a gigantic business and touches the iuterests ot other countries than ours, but the South's chances for great improvement in the business are very good. A dispatch sent recently from Char lotte to Boston says that the - question of mixing the races in cotton factories will not trouble the cotton manufact urers in the South for quite awhile yet ; and if ever it does come the na tural drowsiness of the negro will be so much added to by the din and hum and beat of machinery that he will not be a desirable operative even in mills where only colored labor is employed. With every new national adminis tration there are verily swarms of place- seekers about Washington. lhese calculate only for the immediate fu ture, for the most part, leaving the fu ture of even a few years to provide for a itself. To be sure, it is a nice- thing to get into a department place. The work must not be very hard and the pay is pretty fair, and withal one feels quite comfortable in such a position. But there is really a sad feature to the prospect of such fortun ate ones, especially of young men ; for those who have made observation at the nation's capital that is worth re garding, give it as their opinion, that when a young man once becomes iden tified with the department work and remains at it some considerable time he becomes unfitted for anything else. The progressive ladies of Westfield, Ind., issued a "Woman's Edition" of the Westfield News bearing date of April 3, 1896. The paper is filled with matter rf interest to women, and we notice the following from a correspond ent, which the editors printed realiz ing that it treats upon a matter ot ritai imrw-n-tflncft to their sex: "The hBt. i-emedv for cronp, colds and broh hit.ia that 1 have been able to" find is V Cimeh Remedy. For fjiuityUiJ it has no equal. I gladly rw-ommend it." 25 and 50 cent bot tles for sale by Ey TV Whitehead & Co. A HAPPY NEW YEAR." TIME IS ALWAYS NEW. A CLEAN SLATE TO MAKE. Some Rambling Thoughts. BY NEMO. (Copyrighted by Dawe & Tabor.) It seems strange that Time should ever be represented as an infirm old man. Rather, he is a youth, sprightly and hurrying beyond all imaginings. Time never grows old. When childish plans are as many as our minutes and our whims innumerable, then he doe? indeed lag a little and our violent handy come near murdering him sometimes ; but as soon as we get definite purposes in life, the rascal takes to his heels, and eager though we may be to catch up with him, we nevermore see any thing but his twinkling feet in the distance. And at last as our steps be gin to drag and falter, he circles round and round so fast that we are sick with dizziness and eager for rest. Old Father Time, forsooth ! Those who call him 'old' know not that Time is ever young. What we call the olden days were the new days to those who lived In them ; and our day is in ad vance of theirs, and theirs was in ad vance of those who preceded them, for progress In some form has been the order since the beginning. All who pine with backward looking eyes miss the present ; lor each new moment is as bright as any that have gone before. It is full of new opportunities, strug gles, disappointments, triumphs. A charm lingers around the new ; new chances have not been spoiled, new toys have not been.broken, new knowl edge has not become trite, new hopes are still full of buoyancy. Here once more is the end of an old year and the beginning of the new and though I am far from approving New Year's resolutions, I can quite under stand how they seem to help those who do not yet regard every day as equally sacred against waste. Now do many of us, like the boy who is puzzled in arithmetic, wipe our slates clean - and start again? Admittedly the problem still remains to be solved, but the very idea of a clean slate helps the mind by taking out of sight the confusing fig ures that have misled. Our problem, however, is more difficult than that of any body ; it is to take one short life, so divide it that results shall be mul tiplied, and nothing be left over save goodness. The terms are confusing; enough, particularly when each one must cipher out the matter for himself. Alas ! what a sOrry lot of scrawlings some of us have made. We have taken life as our dividened, irresolution as our divisor, and the quotient is nothing and much over in the form of frazzled, wasted hours. Happy indeed is he who has no mis takes to look back at, but his happi ness is merely the happiness of an animal ; for to have really lived, and L worked, and' strained is inevitably to have made mistakes. Happy also is he of unreflecting spirit whose memory is short for the past snd whose hope carries him ever onward toward some future imagined good without stopping to estimate how that good is to be reached. His is the happiness of a child. But thrice happy is he who has lived and erred and risen again ; who looks backward with eyes not suf fused with tears but alive with ques tioning as to how to avoid such mis takes in the future, getting wisdom from the experiences of the past, from mistakes plucking courage, and from disappointments wrenching free ; who looks onward with calm gaze believing that what the spirit of a man has done, it can again do and more also, since the present is based on the deeds of the past and the deeds of the future will be possible by reason of the deeds of the present all ever cumula tive. Some of you have wasted much time the past year. Yon spendthrifts ! Re solve and act against this for the year to come. Wake up to the fact that time spent is ti me irrecoverable. How much of it do you think you have? Not more than thirty years, probably. And if by reason of strength some re main effective for fifty years, what a pey.y span of time even that is. Too often definite lines are not decided on antil after we are thirty, and failing powers weaken us before we .are fifty. Thus air the products of all tHe ages, as far as they influence us, are'erowded in-tn-twentv or thirty . vears. We . should be misers of time rather than wasters. Thus would even rest and recreation have a purpose and a dignity. And some of you have tried to do, but have failed to accomplish and you envy the many great and the inwiy good who have excelled in efforts; Cease repin ing and turn once mort to the tasK ; tor the greatest have ntsyer had more than your own measure of time, twenty-four hours to the day. And some of you have sorrowed and buried the heart right out of your work. God pity you ! and show you a way out into some measure of sunlight during the year to come. Remember that as long as you live, you have duties to other? and that the awakening of your social conscience has in it the power to gath er up broken threads ?i life. Effort for others is a wondrous salve. YEAR.. v. Turn away from the noisy, though l less ciowds and bend your ear to the summons of life. The world moves "Forward" ; human growth is "For ward" ; the mighty swing of the uni verse in all its unmeasured extent is "Forward." Let your feet fall into the marching time of imperishable con quering power, "Forward and Up ward" ! ! Last in the march of months there December, A solemn stately sage who says, "Re- member, I sing, alas, the dreary dirge of death, I bear the pall ; yet, with my dying breath, Another year is born, and, ere I go I shed my silent mantle of pure snow To hide time's scars and wrinkles; and to make A gentle cradle where the heir can wake, And hear the soft receding strains that cheer The final feast that speeds the fading vear." A Cheerful Soul. Exchange, How different it is when one is hab itually cheerful ! Wherever such a person goes he carries gladness. He makes it easier for others to live. He puis encouragement into the heart of every one he meets. When j?ou ask after his health, he answers you in a happy, cheerful way that quickens your own pulses. He does not burden you with a list of complaints. He does not consider it necessary to tell you at breakfast how poorly he rested, how many hours he heard the clock strike during the night, or any of the details of his miserable condition this morn ing. He prefers only to speak of cheer ful tnings, not staining the brightness of the morning for you with the recital of any of his own discomforts. The cheerful man carries with him perfumery in his presence and person ality, an-influence that act3 upon others as summer warmth on the fields and forests. It wakes up and calls out the best that is in them. It makes them stronger, braver and happier. Such a man makes a little spot of this world a lighter, brighter, warmer place for oth er people to live in. To meet him in the morning is to get inspiration which makes all the day's struggles and tasks easier. His hearty handshake puts a thrill of new vigor into your veins. After talking with him for a few roin tes, you feel an exhilaration, a quicken ing.of energy, renewal of, zest and in terest in living, and am retdy for any duty or service. The blessing of one such cheerful life in a home is un measurable. It touches all the Household with its calming, quieting influence. It allays the storms of pe.-turbed. feeling that are sure to sweep down from the mountain of worldly care and conflict even upon the sheltered waters of home. A $12,000,000 Will. Philadelphia Record. A certified copy of the will of W. L. Winans was filed in Baltimore recent ly. The certificate attached to the will states that the gross value of the estate Ha 2,522,005, 17s. Id., or about $12, 000,000. Owing to the absence of the seal of the United States Consul on the certified copy ot the will.it will be sent back to England to have the seal at tached, as required by law. Sleep Inducer. It is said that if two or three dan delion leaves be chewed before going to bed they will induce sleep, no matter how nervous or worried one may be. Ex. Persons who are troubled with in digestiou will be interested In the ex perience of Wm. H. Penn, chief clerk in. the railway . mail service at Des Moines, Iowa, who writes : "It gives me pleasure to testify to the merits of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy. For two years. I have suffered from indigestion, and am sub ject to frequent severe attacks of pain in the stomach and bowels. One or two doses of this remedy nver fails to give perfect relief. Price 25 and 50 cents ; for sale by E. T. Whitehead & CO. ;- .- ' -.. SWEET COM TENT. THE ONLY SUES ROAD TO HAPPINESS. Be Content and be Blessed. BY LADY COOK (NEE TENNESSEE C. CLAFLIX.) Man is probably the only living creature who suffers from dUcontet t. Like other animals, he undergoes hiu.-j ger and thirst, cold and beat, sexual and social desires, but unlike them, when his natural wants and passions are satisfied he is still more or less un happy. If he is rich he desires to be richer ; if great, to be greater ; if wife to be wiser. His capacity for acquisi tion is limitless . He :.dds field to field, gold to goid, fact to fact, and privilege to privilege, and is as greed of power at the end of life as at the beginning. Pride and ambition are his constant stimulants, and urge him to reuewed efforts. Nor is it desirable that these task masters should be al together absent. Otherwise his inher ent laziness would reduce him to de privation, ignorance, and crime ; cr au absolute content would condemn him to vegetate meanly and passively on the margin of want. Man would not be superior to the brutes were it not for these much abused qualities. Tney sharpen his intelligence, and give a spur to his best faculties. They may conduce to good or evil, may mouid a Marcus Antoninus, or a Nero, a Brutus, or a Cataline, and make any of us useful citizens or public pests, ac cording to the method and measure of their working. They may even be private vices and still give rise to pub lic benefits. Nevertheless, individually, pride and ambition are only salutary in the ut most moderation. When they cease to be wholesome stimuli they become poisonous, and may effect a whole peo ple as with a plague. Such was "la grande pensee" of the French under the first Napoleon, which deluged Eu rope with blood. "La grande nation," as they called themselves, believed that its destiny was to subjugate tbe world. It tried, and eventually found that destiny had decieed otherwise. France was subjugated instead. And this is tbe fate of all who yield to ex cesses. "Contentment," says Cogan, express es the acquiescence ot tbe mind in the portion of good we possess." But no one can be truly content without a sufficiency.. Even a philosopher de fined happiness as "having enough to eat," which, although not strictly cor rect, is true in this sense, that no one who starves can be happy. It is all very fine for the sleek and well fed to tell those who are pinched by poverty, that they should be content with that state of life into which it has pleased God to place them. But men will be no more converted by such teaching than were the cabbages when St. An thony preached to them. And it it right that this should satisfy no one, and which ' requires extirpation as much as any physical pestilence. It arises, like every other disorder, from past disregard for natural laws, and its evils are Nature's warning protests against the immorality and impru dence of mankind which have produc ed it. To be content with it argues imbecility. One might as well profess to'be pleased with the small pox. Con tent is not tbe same as resignation. The Utter denotes a submissiyeJyield iug, a melancholy and passive obe dience to the force of circumstances. Religion inculcates it as the acknowl edgement of tbe right of a superior power to afflict, and to which all good Christians should meekly bow, wheth er tbe chastisement be deserved or not. But human nature does not wil lingly kiss the rod. The instinctive impulses which urge man to self-protection, call upon him to resist every thing which he deems hurtful. : And tbe reason so many are discontented is because they fail to understand what that state should be, and thus blindly seek for a false one. For ijhe true con sists neither of poverty nor riches, neither of rank nor honour, nor any other external influence. It lies with in omselves and goes with us wherev er we may go. It enables us to rise superior to all adversity and to despise all temptation, for it is based upon a sure foundation a serene and imper turbable equanimity. Perhaps no one has written more To Keep off the Grip. Some people imagine there's no use trving to keep off grip, but the only people who are peculiarly liable to grip are those whose systems are run down. If you have built up your system for tbe winter, all you will need is to take proper care of yourself; but it your Mood is thin or impure the thing to do is o take several bottles of David's Sareaparilla. The great blood purifier and strength builder. truiniuiiy on this topic than the pott Horace, showing how we are bondsmen to discontent through our im modem' e passions. He eays : "In truth, th u who rulest over me, unhappy, art a slave to others, and art guided as puppet that moves by strings not its own. Who then is free? The w!k man who is able to rule over himself ; whom neither poverty, nor death, in r chains frighten, brave in responding U, his desires and in despising honours, and wholly round and complete ii. himself, so that nothing can hinder his free movement ; against whom foi tune always rushes to ba crippled... He who fear.-? poverty is without liber ty... Tell ine, what natters it to tin man who lives within the bounds of nature whether he ploughs a hundred or a thousand acres !... They who - cov et much want much... I shall mo;e wisely extend my humble income In contracting my desires... True wisdom disseu ting from the mob, teaches the people to renounce false names for things, conferring sovereignty, the secure diadem and the unfading lau rel, on him alone who can look uptn vast piles of wealth with a steady eye. ..For neither royal treasures nor tie lictor ot the consul can remove the harassing anxieties of the mind, nor the cares that hover around the splen did ceilings of tne great... Why do we, whose strength is of such short continuance, aim at so many ob jects. Why do we change our native lands for climes warmed by another sun? What exile from his country has ever escaped from' himself? As much more as any man shall deny himself, so much more shall he receive from the Gods. .. It is virtue to avoid vice, and the highest wisdom to have been free from folly... Silver is less worth than gold, gold than the virtues. O citizens, money is to be sought first ; virtue after money!... He who has enough wishes for nothing more... The covetou-i man is always in want : seek some sure limit to your wishes. Sicilian tyrants never found out a greater torture than envy... Whoever covets or fears, house and proper-y please him as much as pictures a blear eyed man... Unless the vessel is miro, whatever you pour into it turns sour. Receive with grateful hand whatever hour the deity has blest to you, and put not off your enjoyments for a year so that in whatever place you may have been, you may say that you hnve lived content. For if reason and pru dence and not a place comjaauding the wide-spread sea remove cares, those who traverse the ocean change their sky-but not their mind. Stren uous idleness employs us : we seek on ships and in four-hor-e coaches to live happily : that which you seek is hero at Ulubrae, if an even mind does not abandon you." Such are, literally, a few of tbe many wise sentences that dropped from the genial pen of the ancient Roman mas ter, who not only taught the supreme felicity of content by moderating de sire, but practiced what he preached, and obtained the deepest insight into moral truth without tbe aid of a special revelation. The friend of Augustus and the bosom friend of Maecenas, he refused wealth from the one and honors from the other, preferring his inde pendence with a yery moderate compe tency as a surer road to happiness. "Live while you may, but live wisely," was a favorite sentiment, and his con stant motto was "Vive." He urged his friends over and over to "avoid ex tremes," and to "keep within the gold en mean." And very pleasantly not at all in the grim Carlyleian vein he showed that almost all of his country men were either fools or mad ; because while striving for contentment, they souaht the wildest and most irrational means of obtaining it, and relied on every method except the right. With the Keen vision of all true seers, he pierced deeper than most below the surface, and saw what is as true today as in his pagan time, that heaven and hell are not beyond but within us not the shadowy extremes of a future state, but the living realities of tbe present ; and that the existence of either depends chiefly upon ourselves. As Burns sang referring to the serenity of mind which constitute content : "It's no in titles nor in rank : It's no in wealth like Lon'on bank, To cm-chase peace and rest : It's n in making muckle mair : It's ! mi t.ooks ; it's no in fear, To make us truly blest : If b:i;iiess has not her seat A I'd centre in tbe breast, We maj l.e wise, or rich, or great, But never can be blest." A Cuke for Lame Back. "Mv dauchter when recovering from an attack of fevar, was a great sufferer from pain in Ine-back and hips," writes Louden G rover, ot Sardis, Ky. "After usine auite a numberof remedies with out any benefit she tried one bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and it has civen entire relief." Chamberlain's Pain Balm is also a certain cure for rheumatism. Sold by E. T. White head & Co. No. S03. This quar teMwwed oak writing desk la poi lahed likes Cio. It a 9-inch berated late g-Iaaa ntopand a deep drawer below. Ar tistic FranohlegBt alaoflniahed In mahogany. 53.05 la our apeo tal prloe for thiaflOdeak. (Mail orders filled promptly.) We will mall anyone, free of all charges, our new IIS page Special Cata logue, containing Furniture, Draperies, Lamps, Stoves, Crockery. Mirrors, Pictures, Bedding, Refrigerators. Baby Carriages, eta This la the moat com plete book ever published, and we pay all postage. Our lithographed Carpet Catalogue, showing carpets In colon, la also yours for the asking. If carpet samples are wanted, mall us 8o. in stamps. There la no reason why you aboufd pay your local dealer 60 per cent, profit when you can buy from the mill. Drop a line now to the moner-earers. JULIUS HINES & SON, Baltimore, IXd. Please mention this paper. North Carolina's Lost Colony. Philadelphia Enquirer. The New England families which : have lately formed an association for self-glorification by claiming an Ameri can origin older and more important' than that claimed by anv of tbe Re volutionary or Colonial societies do not reach far enough back, after all. Down in Robeson county, X. C, are still liv ing tbe descendants of tbe members of the lost colony sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1587. No white settlement was made in New England until the next century, and the North Carolin ians, if they choose to form a society and press their claim, are entitled to precedence by reason of their older American lineage over all similar American organizations. An atmosphere of sentiment also surrouuds the "lost colony" of North Carolina which, if properly worked, would redound to the social prestige ot the colony's present day descendants. The story of the colony, as ordinarily told, is as artistic and inconclusive as Mr. Howell's tale of the Shakers' court ing. The Governor of the colony was John White. Virginia Dare, the first child of English p:"-ents born in tbe New World, was Governor White's grandchild. The Governor sailed for England, and returning a year later could fiud no signs of tbe colony, ex cept the word "Croalan" traced upon a tree. The wonderings, the searchings, the reflections, the moralizings that have been expended upon that lost colony would equip a great numberof sentimental stories. As a matter of fact, the fate of tbe colony was a most natural one. It was absorbed ! y the Indians. Tbe members intermarried with the natives, rn.-'.i their deweudauta of mixed while and Indian blood still bear the first English names ever spoken within the United States. It does not matter that the records of some ot these "Croat an V Hev are called, have been unsavory, and that some of the Croatans" have been outlaws. It was of the Mayflower voyagers themselves that a New Eng land Adams said "a few wore known favorably ; still more were known un favorably ; the groat majority were never known at all." A reat majority of nearly all f (lie dc-cend nf ' of the first Englishmen to setilc in tl.e United States have never been known .-if all. Shakespeare was still .a young man when those Englishmen came to North Carolina. 'England's glory and power were still in the future. England her self was a young country, just assimi lating tbe culture of the Contin?nt. The North Carolinian mixed breeds who can show association with a time now so remote can have no rivals in tbe hereditary society line oi business. Tree to Our Readers. Our readers will be pleased to learn that the eminent physician and scien tist, Dr. Kilmer, after years of research and study, has discoverred and given to the world a most remarKable reme dy, known as Swamp-Root, for tbe cure of kidney and bladder troubles ; tbe generous offer to send a bottle free that all may test its wonderful merits with out expense, is in itself sufficient to give tbe public confidence and a desire to obtain it. Swamp Root has an established reputation as the most successful remedy, and is receiving the hearty endorsement of all up to-date physicians, hospitals and homes. If our men and women readers are in need of a medicine of this kind no time should be lost in sending their name and address to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Biughamton, N. Y. and receive a sample bottle and pamphlet, both sent absolutely free by mail. The regular sizes may be obtained at the ding stores. When writing please Hay you read this liberal offer in The Commonwealth. Specialty. 1 16 lv