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Any sarsaparilla Is sarsapa
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So any flour is flour. But grades
differ. You want tht best. It's
so with sarsaparilla. There are
grades. You want the best. If
you understood sarsaparilla as
well as you do tea and flour it
would be easy to determine.
But you don't. How should
you? - When you are going to
buy a commodity whose value
you don't know, you pick out
an old established house to
trade with, and trust their ex
perience and reputation. Do so
when buying sarsaparilla.
Ayer's Sarsaparilla has been
on the market 50 years. Your
grandfather used Ayer's. It is
a reputable medicine. There
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but only one Ayer's. It
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AVID BELL,
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ENFIELD, N. C.
Practices in all the Courts of Hali
fax and adioininer counties and in the
Supreme and Federal Courts. Claims
collected in all parts of the btate.
R. W. J. WARD,
Surgeon Dentist,
Enfield, N. C.
Office over Harrison's Drup Store. 1
DWARD L. TRAVIS,
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HALIFAX, N. C.
'Money Loaned on Farm Lands.
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AUL V. MATTHEWS,
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. E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XIV. New Series Vol. 2.
THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS.
Points and Paragraphs of Things
Present, Past and Future.
A convention is to be held In Louis
iana in February to modify the consti
tution in regard to the elective suffrage.
It is to make such requirements with
reference to intelligence and the hold'
ins of property as will cut down the
number of colored voters in that State.
The Philadelphia Record says :
"The necessity for such discrimina
tion seems to be generally conceded by
the white voters of the State of both
political parties."
The great suffering amongst the
Cubans cannot even be imagined by
the people of this prosperous country
and this good land filled with 'plenty,
Hon. Charles Russell, assistant United
States Attorney in the Department of
Justice, has recently returned from
Cuba, and says that two hundred thou
sand persons are daiiy suffering and
dying for the want of food and medi
cine. He says it would take $20,000
a day to partially alleviate the suffer
ing. Such is the result of war. But
the insurgents in Cuba will in the end
gain their victory, we believe.
The winter of 1897-98 has, to this
writing, been very mild. Will It con
tinue so all through? This is a ques
tion which many have somewhat won-
deringly asked.
W. W. Parker, writing to the Rich
mond Dispatch January 12th, said :
"You may say upon my humble
authority that I have noticed for years,
and often published it in the Dispatch,
that if the weather continues warm till
the 15th of January it will be warm
all winter. 1 know 01 but one excep
tion in many years ; then the cold wave
came on the morning of the 15th, and
it continued cold till late in Febru
ary."
At last a sensible thing will be done
in launching a ship. It has been a
question with thousands of good peo-
people in this land as to what sense
there is in breaking a bottle of wine
over some part of a new ship at its
launching and calling it' "christening
the ship."
To-day, Miss Helen Long, daughter
of the Secretary of the Navy, will
christen the first Japanese warship to
be launched in the United States. An
item from Washington has said that
the ceremony will take place at
Cramp's ship yards and will consist in
calling the name "Kasagi" by Mies
Herbert and loosing a silken bag and
releasing a white pigeon, a bird which
is held sacred by the Japanese in such
ceremonies.
Recently Dr. T. B. Kingsbury, editor
of the Wilmington Messenger, wrote
of the excellent work which is being
done by the press of North Carolina.
What he said was true, we think.
The average newspaper in the State
is worth many times the price paid
for it ; but the peopleare slow to real
ize this. As to running a paper on
the spot cash plan, there is some differ
ence of opinion ; but we have found it
impracticable. Many newspapers in
this State, weeklies and dailies, take
chances with a goodly number of theii
readers, frequently sending the paper
a year or more beyond the time paid
for. And while in many instances it
seems to oe tne pesi pian ior some
m .a ... 9 '
particular reader, we believe that no
class of creditors is more imposed
upon than the newspaper that indul
ges its readers. The newspapers of
North Carolina have done more since
the war to develop the State and show
its resources than any other influence
at all. And they deserve to be paid
handsomely for their work.
The progressive ladies of Westfield,
Ind., issued a "Woman's Edition" of
the Westfield News, bearing date, ol
April 3, 1896. The paper is filled with
matter 01 interest to women, ana we
notice the following from a correspond
ent, which the editors printed, realiz
ing that it treats upon a matter 01
vital importance to their sex : "ine
best remedy for cronp, colds and bron
chitis that 1 have been able to find is
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. For
family use it has no equal. I gladly
recommend it." 25 and 50 cent bot
Com
SCOTLAND
SELFISHNESS UNREAL.
MANY HELPERS IN THE WORLD,
BETTER MEN FOR THE EW
CENTURY.
Some Rambling Thoughts.
BY "NEMO.1
(Copyrighted by Dawe & Tabor.)
There came across my path a few
:irr:.rj:! r.: lU-- wu-
ing but not of deep thought who had
among other things, saturated his mind
with the thoughts of Schopenhauer,
the pessimist. In weary tones he told
of the disappointments and sorrows of
life, of the selfishness of human beings,
of the savagery into which some of us
find it so easy to drop, of the curse of
education in opening before us all vast
fields of learning that Time pievents
us from traversing, of the mockery of
life in giving us a mere peep of great
things and then sending us onward in
to death and darkness. The dreary
catalogue of woe-stricken thoughts
grew more and more irksome as it pro
gressed, and I fear there were replies
given more forceful than polite. Since
he is one 01 a class, may 1 lust in a
t j j it :
4w cruwueu wurus, rnsa- Bunits .mugs
that were said during my portion of
th rnnvpirsjition ?
.Ue bU--.Yt.Rtt.-lU-- I
t i, mnn
x ------ wi-v0 vx.ij, .
1 1 i. 1 r 1
Bucugiuomyiasmuu wueu ue is sucu an
intense egoist that he regards the world
. J l 1; a: 1 .:... I l:
as uuucr uui.ga-.uu .u cnuio xux uiui
and his pleasure; that he makes' the
centre of the universe a mere speck
of complaining humanity ; and that
his own little toothache or his own little
misery is alone used in estimating the
eelings of others.
1 believe that rainy days have their
place fully as much as days of sunshine
in bringing forth the fruits ot the
earth. So I believe that, none of us
bring forth our best when all is sun-
shine. As the glare and glory ol a
blazing sun cause the desert, so perfect
ease of lite develoDs desert men and
women, who make the counterpart of
the wasted miles of Sahara, in the I
wasted years of their lives ardently
pent for self and therefore hostile to
every other human being. I must be-
believe this or else regard the Creator
as a mere teaser of men.
I believe that the selfishness of hu-
UftinMa In vmAwa fnllrAH nlVMit thnn I
real. x.ven among mo poor anu ma.
1 m a. I ji 11 jl I
ncludes most of usi there is so much
unselfish helping of one another, little
doles of kindness given with freehand
out of almost empty wallets, that one
is compelled to believe that the ex-
ample ot the majority of us will finally
become the guide of the world. As
Sir Edwin Arnold says, "All the poor
are piteous to the poor ;" so as long as
the poor last pity will last, and when
the poor and grief-strained cease, pity
will no longer be needed.
l Deneye tnat tnougn savagery and
grossness lurk in the breasts ot all of
us, there is an increasing control of the
hereditary inner savage, and that the
general orderliness of daily life pro-
a i - wmf c - r. i a r- i r b-iwwt-t". r vim ntrn i
. . .a m -9s m I
..u-. m -aum. x yw..,.., .uu
in your mind the things your impulses
i j jr . a ii I
wuuiu unvo yuu tuwaru, -uuiu.um
how your hesitancy is confirmed into
. ? fi . . ,m r l l I
acwve enmuy to inoBe ieeungs Dy your f
knowledge of the standard society
made ud of units like yourself expects
of you. To see what we were a few
centuries aeo. one might eo to the
natives of South Africa. According to
the word ot a missionary-bishop, tney
are so unused to control by reason of
L I 1 : L a.! - . I
c-uiunw i-wiLiug in ., mat a. preocu.
it is impossible for the Roman Catholic I
church to ordain native priests there,
So foreign to their thought is any de-
sire for self-conquest on behalf ol others I
that celibacy is an absolute bar against
them. But under our civilization
Persons who are troubled with in-
digestiou will be interested in the ex-
penence 01 wm. n. xrenn, cniei cierK
in the railway mall service at Des
m mrmr9 tTW T.
Moines, Iowa, who writes : "It gives
me Dleasure to testify to the merits of
Chamberlain's uonc, unoieraana mar-1
rhoea Remedy. For two years 1 have
suffered from indigestion, and am sub-
jec. tu irwiucii. .-.--o
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IT nerfec "relief Price 25 and W
:monw:
"EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO.
NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20,
when there is reason for restraint, both
men and women pass happy lives with-
out floating away on the waves of pas
sion.
I believe that when we lise from the
first keen feeling of our own littleness,
after education has onened our evea.
we are driven to a fuller understanding
of what living really means : tflat
leads us to loo around for the same
unity that pervades the universe,
wherein each body in the heavens
yet all are moving together in one vast
progress through space. I believe this
unity of the human race will some day
be more than a mere , glittering dream,
even an actual fact, with only here
ana there an erratic creature moving
like a comet across the paths ot others.
I believe that pessimism regarding
Hiducation arises from wrenching it
out of its proper sphere. Rightly used
it gives us larger views. It makes life
more varied, fuller and more interest
ing. If it does not do this, it is be
cause we haye loaded ourselves down
with its pebbles instead of its rubies,
and found darkness where brightness
alone should be.
I believe that the shortness of life
I iiiof. sArvfia f.rt nhmv nn that, t.ha raoa ia I
-
more important than the individual,
I ana that tnereiore the test 01 a valued
I
I!
1 i fo wi ll antinA Hav nnmA tr Via rrt Ytnm I
I much for self was fathered andscraned
" r
I tr.OAt.hnT hnt hrrar m nnh qot-ttI oa no-
-
done to repay something to the race
I fnr the nlAasiirAa onf) rtnnni'tnniHoa
-
that are our heritages as members of
one great human family.
A Deneve me wona is .nniimg to a
new century of new opportunities,
wherein Better men than ourselves
shall hold sway, but in whose progress
the feeblest of us shall have a part, it
we live our little lives to their iullest.
OUT OF MANY, ONE.
Will you come to the spring-decked
woodlands,
Where klndl tner Earth
Welcomes with loye-filfed breezes
Her guests to the flowret's birth ?
Where Father Forest fondles
His children, newly born,
And spreads them a costly cradle
Where the skillful nurse, Dame Nature,
Topers the heat and cold.
With gauzes of fern and bramble
From her scented store-chest old?
In eager baste arrives,
wuv, w.ni, nt tA ;-,fi,
To nourish the tender lives?
where tfae trees, those stalwart servants,
Are busy to dettly build
Fresh fairy homes unnumbered
With eyery fancy filled?
Come then, and learn a lesson
A lesson for me and you ;
flow a thousand hearts help foster
One life of beauty true,
Keep a Clean Mouth.
A distinguished author says : "I re-
solved, wnen i was a cniid, never to
use a word which I could not pro-
nounce beiore my mother." He kept
his resolution and became a PH
minded, noble, honored gentleman.
-ww i i . l I
aa a a nnn ava m niu a T-a -nmvr.nv f ii
u.. .uu .-.mj, w " j
imitation.
t 3:1 n
xoyB roaunjr -.
vulgar words and expressions, which
J i .iLl- 1
are never nearu in mywwjiv ireie8.
Of course, we cannot think of girls as
being so much exposed to this peril
We cannot imagine a decent girl using
words she would not utter before her
father or mother.
Such vulgarity is thought by some
boys to be "smart," the "next thing to
: tl 1 minlrn " V.11
nwemiug, J "v- ---v ,
I . 1
it is a habit which leads to profanity,
and fills the mind with evil thoughts.
It vulgarizes and degrades the soul,
and prepares the way for many of the
gross and fearful sins which now cor
rupt society
- "
free from all impurity, and your
.tongue from evil . but in order to do
& ,
tnis, asK Jesus to cieanaa your near.
and keep it clean, for "out of the
nlindanie of the heart the mouth
. a-w
speaketb. Selected.
iant nt ,ua Kir nften HBtrnv its
vetality and natural hue, and causes it
to fall out. Before it is too late, apply
BURNING WORDS.
A SENSIBLE CHARGE.
Who Ought to he Jurors.
vorvw g.vt in pars
I XT P- i-vi ! s .
Jndge Tlmberlake'e charge to the grand
it Juljr av " v" wees
lt is Bpicy and to the point
He began with the jury itself, and
Qe thought the law requiring the
-
jury on the first of June each year was
a good one.
x iiKe una. wora purge, we can
T 151 . fl . - ---
not be too careful with the jury. If it
is corrupted ine wnoie stream 01 jus
tice is polluted. I wish now to call
your attention to several classes of men
who8e names ouht not to be alIowed
in the jury box,
First, of course, is the man who
tells lies. No matter what his position,
the man who does not tell the truth
has no business on a jury. He is not
fit to pass upon the rights of another.
The business man who deceives his cus
tomers is not nt to serve on a jury
Lawyers are also sometimes guilty of
dishonest methods in their practice ;
but for the most part they are honest
and law abiding. I've been on the
I (jgg geygral years, and I've not found
, ,, ,
I mnro than half a Hmsn aftni-nami
. 1 . M V S I - V IVIftw - UJ G i
were not honest, reliable and honorable
' ...
Uf course, thoueb. this class are not
eligible for jurymen. The same rule
l,ao appUes tQ newspaper men They
I
are anowed a great deal of latitude.
They are tne conservators of public
morality and the liberties of the people.
But they ouht to be sure what they
publish is true. If it is not, it will
nurt someooay. a. correction never
catches up with the original publica
tion, and even it it does somebody will
believe the first and not the second.
-'Men who drink to excess ought not
to serve on a jury. Such a man is not
fit to pass upon the rights of his fellow
citizens, or even of his own.
"ine loaier around town the pro
fessional juror who has no way oi
making a living, should never, under
any circumstances, oe anowea on a
jury.
'Men who cheatand swindle. There
are men in all professions who do this
not only horse-swappers, but mer
chants, farmers, lawyers and others.
I knew a man in Franklin county
who slipped off some ot his tenant's
best tobacco and sold it in a dead man's
name in order to defraud the tenant.
"Men who yiolate the internal rev
enue law. The best thing that can hap
pen to such a man, for the community
in which he lives, is for him to get in
to the United States penitentiary.
You ought to break up this sort of
thing. I don't advise you to be spies
and informers, but if a man starts up
a moonshine distillery, go to him and
tell him he must stop it. That if he
doesn't do it, it will be broken up by law.
Recently 1 held a court in Madison
county, and there were nine men in
jail for mt,rder---and every one of them,
i was told, was committed at a moon
8j,jne distillery.
...
Men wbo violate tne law in everv
respect. Men who don't obey the laws
I
themselves are not fit to serve on the
jury tha(. mugt pass on otber aw
I
hrfifll-e Aa an individual vou some-
imeg say a law ia a bad one, but
you
must obey it, and as a juryman you
must see that it is enforced without
regard to your individual opion. Then
there are men in your community
whom a8 a private citizen, would
tQ pushed, but you
I
I t out vour oath. YOU must
know no man as friend or enemy
in
the discharge of your duties."
'Another offense I will call to your
attention is the selling of cigarettes to
minors, it win lane sumo i..u iwu-
. -V. !! a m 1.4,a1. . 4 mm. .
ble to looK into this. There is hardly
anything in the world that is doing
so much harm to the youth ol tne
land. You ought to have it stopped
There is a law against it ; have it en-
Our Grandmothers' Remedy.
Cough medicine will not cure con-
o tinn hnt Ttr Dvid'f!ou?h Svrun
will cure the cough which, if neglected,
wlH end In csumption. Pure pine
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forced."
Touching the offense of escape the
judge made his construction of the law
broad enough to include the peniten
tiary authorities who allow convicts to
go about as trusties, though he didn't
refer in so many words to the officers I t oil. The average grade of Ameri
of that institution. He said when a can peanuts is slightly inferior to the
man was sent to prison, he was sent j East African peanut in oil-producing
there for punishment and not to be ', value, but experience has demonstrated
given liberties. Here he told of a shoe- the excellent quality of the American
maker who was sent to jail in a wes- peanut oil.
tern county recently for a crime. Sooii Foreign peanut oil comes to this
the man was allowed to move into the country in large quantities under dif
room formerly occupied by the jailer, ! ferent names, much of it labeled
hangout his shoemaker's sign, and j "virgin olive oil." Professor Sadtler
moye his wife and household goods and j says of his experiments with oil from
tools into the jail. Then be went to
work and enjoyed as many liberties
as he did at home, but all the
time the county was feeding bim and
furnishing him a house.
This is the punishment he was get
ting for a crime. The sheriff wbo al
lowed this, Judge Timberlake said,
ought to have been himself put in
jail for a long term.
"It is your duty to investigate the
crime of gambling. This sort of thing
must be broken up. If you will look in
in it you will make 75 or more present
ments. It is common not only among
men but among young boys. Then
a man can gamble in other ways than
with cards. The man who buys or
sells futures cotton, meats, grain,
stock, bonds or anything else is
guilty of gambling. You must pre
sent them for it as you would for
gambling with cards or betting on a
race. This is a matter that you ought
to Iook into very carefully."
Soap Made From Peanuts.
Philadelphia Record.
In view of the tact that there is a
superabundance of peanuts raised every
year in Virginia, North Carolina and
other parts of the South, the sugges
tion is made that peanut oil be used
more extensively in pharmacy, and be
permitted to take the place,' to a cer
tain extent, of olive oil, says the Pitts
burg Dispatch. Professor S. P. Sadtler I
TESTES)
AND
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BICYCLES OF ALL KINDS ON
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recently produced an experimental
soda soap from the oil extracted from
American peanuts. In reporting this
fact, he remarked significantly that
the bulk of the castile soap made in
Marseilles is made from African pea-
Virginia peanuts :
"The cold-pressed oil is of a pale
yellow color, and ot a pleasant flavor
and odor. A very slight refining makes
it agreeable table oil for salads and
other culinary purposes. It has al
ready been noted with English peanut
oil (and I can confirm it from my ex
perience with American oil) that when
once freed from the free acid found in
the raw state it does not tend to be
come rancid as easily as olive oil. I
have exposed samples to strong sun
light for weeks without developing the
slightest rancidity." -
There has been comparatively little
attention given to the production of
peanut oil in this country, and at pres
ent it is not an important element in
commerce. However, as the chemical
composition of the peanut becomes
better known attention is drawn to the
food value of the peanut meal and the
peanut grits. In has been found that
they are richer In nitrogenous prin
ciples than any ot the vegetable seed
cakes.
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