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J3 ' Hudson's Surpassing Coffee a Specialty. 1 16 ! A 4 m it. " m at mm op tub ill ' 1 jl MERITS HiJ U eh E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XIV. New Series Vol. 2.. THE EDITOR'S LEISUBB E0UB3. Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. The Virginia Legislature now in ses sion must be a good body of avoirdu pois. The Richmond Dispatch re cently mentioned four members whose aggregate weight is nearly one thou sand pounds. The heaviest man in the House is George G. Gelleher. He stands six feet in his stockings and weighs 269 ponnds. The desk room assigned to these heavy weight representatives is too small., The lovers ot fashion may or may not be glad to learn that the bustle will be in order again the coming season, but fashion authorities say it will. Paris is starting the wave and it will strike shore at New York before long, and that will settle it with American women. And the trouble is the bustle is to be "much more than it has been before." A fashion writer says : "The bustle of 1898 will assume proportions never anticipated by the devotees.of 1878. It will be made of every material by which human ingenuity can mould it to conformity with the idea of the bustle ideal." The total length of the telegraph systems of the world is said to be 4,908,- 823 miles. Besides this there are lSl,- 400 miles of submarine cables. The New York Herald gives the length of the telegraph In the various countries, and comments aj follows : 'Europe, 1,764,790 miles; Asia, 310,685 miles ; Africa, 99,419 miles ; Australia, 217,479 miles ; America, 2,- 516,548 miles. It will theiefore be seen from the above that notwithstand ing the steady increase in the building of telegraph lines all over Europe, America leads and has almost double the mileage oi Europe." Much is said in various ways about who should be admitted to the jury box. Certainly no man ought to be trusted to decide the interests of other men who can not and does not properly guard his own. But it often happens that the most "noddle headed," soft brained fellows are retained on a jury to pass upon grave questions of crime or important personal interests. One thing is certain : In North Carolina where the races are mixed in the jury box, no man ought to be kept on a jury, black or white, who will be swayed by prejudice, race prejudice or any other kind, so that he can not render a verdict according to the merit of the evidence. No people in the world ought to be more particular about their business than milk dealers and dairymen. One of the hardest jobs the housewife on any farm has to do is to "keep her milk things clean." It is correspon dingly more difficult to one who han dles a great deal of milk. Dairymen and milk dealers, by a little carelessness, can set a-going some disease that will perhaps prostrate a whole community. A gentleman who was handling milk shakes in season told us that he thought ne was as careful as possible with his 'milk cans; but smelling of them one day to his surprise their scent was almost like that of car rion. Let all who sell milk be care ful about its cleanliness. Americans are great people for in venting ; but in some cases their im provements on old inventions almost equal invention itself. The following item about the type writer, which we clip from general reading is a case in point. The New York Dispatch says : "The first typewriter was a machine with raised letters, invented by Henry Mill of England, in 1714, for the use of the blind ; but beyond marking the era of mechanical writing machines it was of no value, and for nearly 140 years no step forward was made. Nearly all the improvements, and certainly the credit for the general introduction of the typewriter, belong to America. To day there is one firm in this country which manufactures more than fifty styles of machines, in all languages and even in business ciphers. In these last the keyboard is lettered as usual, but the characters printed are in cipher." SCOTLAND SERVING EACH OTHER. FIRST SE CAPABLE. THEN SERVE AND DO GOOD. Some Bamhling Thoughts. BY "NEMO.1 (Copyrighted by Dawe & Tabor.) STRENGTH THROUGH CONFLICT. Out in the sunny valley a leafy elm' tree grew, , Its branches spreading gaily to every breeze that blew. The mountains high A shield supply, And it laughed when the sounding storm swept by. Staunch and stiff On a rugged cliff, A pine-tree bold faced the bitter cold, Holding its post on the shelving crust Gainst the wanton winds in their cruel lust, And when the blast Was over-passed, Deeper and deeper its roots were thrust. There came a day when the earthquake BUUC&B ty . , 11 Jt A .1 i -Liufcurcu tun vaiiejr uuu reui me ruuKS, I And the elm-tree fell at Fortune's frown, With its tender twigs and its sunny crown, But the pine-tree, safe in its deep-set bed, Still reared high its oft-scarred head. Look to the bicycle and learn, thou striving and panting one I The swifter the progress, the greater the resistance ; the rider makes his own breeze, hold ing him back in a measure but fanning his brow meanwhile. Rejoice in the pressure ahead, you who exert your selves ; it means that you are moving, progressing, forcing some real resist ance to one side. Lie down and rest in your tracks supinely, and all resist ance will vanish ; no one will find in you then cause for fear, and therefore ho one will oppose you. Look again at the bicycle and be wise ! Descent is eyer easier and swifter than ascent. Years may be given to character-build ing or to fortune-hunting a moment may undo it all. Never mind though your progress be slow ; let it be upward and upward only. That is the way man ought to go if he Is to be true to the hisrory of his whole race, which has had an ascent of toilsome length and blood-stained steps. To love the easy, slothful, backward ways to viol ence and vice, is to be a traitor to our record. The nerveless soul, soft-steeeped in sensual sloth Whose idle humors, with their fungus growth, Have ever rusted since the world began, The iron case that makes a man a man Looks longing from his lounge with half-closed eyes To where some dazzling El Dorado lies ; And "Oh I" he sighs, "for some celestial car Some magic charm to waft me thus So might I gather gems and garner g0j To deck my youth in semblance as of old!" And, dreaming, longing thus he waits and grieves While Indolence fresh cobweb-fetters weayes : I Till, like poor Gulliver, his strength is bound With light and trivial chains so thickly wound I That in their welded strength he may not fight, But yields him to his myriad conquer- vio Auiguu 1 Yet had he but aroused himself at first, and commutations and respites are And from his gath'ring trammels , . . . , , , , , serving to. increase crime and mul bravely burst, Taking whatever ship might help his "P1 the in8tancea oI Lyncn Iaw- quest, They create distrust in the public Pointing its prow towards the golden mind and lead to open rebellion against West, Still faring forward spite of wayward blast. Columbus-liice he might have won at ast, And, with his trembling banner never furled, Seeking ah El Dorado, found a world ! see nonurnea aisuncnan. jever 2 m i 4 wiser words were uttered than those I Our Grandmothers' Remedy. Coueh medicine will not cure con- sumption, but Dr. David's Cough Syrup will cure the cough which, if neglected, will end In consumption. Pure pine HIT, IIUBPUVUUU BI1U H11U UBiIJ-UUi imiwlmnl han' ramnrW imonw: "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, concerning the man who took a hum ble seat at a feast and then was called higher. Be a doer of great things rather than a blower ot a personal trumpet. Be capable first, be the serv ant of all second, and having done all be content to have served rather than to have demanded service, lne man whonvhis fellows extol in their hearts is the one who lives broadly and grand ly ana yet waiKs numbly. Bear in mind that good work done out of sight is none the less good work. It is, to some of us, like the miser's gold, thing to rejoice over with supreme satisfaction, where there is neither eye to or ear t0 Uatn By all the standards of universal righteousness; call up your doings to the judgment bar of your own Heart, get tnere the approval of the one who dwelleth in tne nigbestr, and then the vanishing. vapid question of doing your works where men can see you, sinks into ita . nmnnrtinns. Th hftanMt.nl tisr- I ure-head on the prow of a ship is fair look and tg m a WQrd of I . . I LUaiCK? , uui lai UIUIO IUJUUIMUIi IB IUO sweat-begrimed coal-trimmer down in I the stoke-hole. Shoveling coal and carrying ashes are essentials; to be en 0 j non-essential. Be stoker and a good one ; there is honor in it. Everything is vocal of our social obligations there would be no cheap travel were there not many who want ed to travel no gas In your house or oil in your lamp were there not others to use it no easy means of getting anywhere along well-built highways unless there were people enough to de mana ana to matce mem. unless we seek some remote spot, ''far from the madding crowd," it is impossible for us to live to ourselves alone. All our neighbors are helpful to us some of them certainly without intending to be ; and we in turn are helpful to them, cross and uncharitable though some of us are. Every article we buy, every product we sell, brings us in touch with our fellows ; keeps looms at work ; shares in the whirr of the factory : holds the weary miner to his task ; keeps the captain on the bridge of his vessel, hastening from a distant clime. Just as a shout w said to disturb the ether as far as the remotest star, your little wants and mine "move the world." While we live our fellows from every zone serve us ; while we live our service and our thought must be towards them. A Jury's Verdict. N. C. Baptist. The verdict of a jury has come to mean in many instances only "the be ginning" of litigation. This is espec- ially true n capital cases, in cases in- volving large sums of money and cases hnvolying the title to public office. In I ran1t.nl faSAa if f ha frn 71 riaA man nan . commana money ne can prolong nis llle lonS ftftr it has been forfeited by a jury verdict and judicial sentence. Ifc is trae that in mRn caaes marder- eis by means of court technicalities go scot free after being condemned to Heath and in some cases, like that of Theodore Durrant the mmaeiei jive8 several years after his victim and that througn tne power of influence and money. Of course an accused man should be given the benefit of every doubt yet the quibbling and delay8 - 1 i A A courts and judges and juries. The more the necessity for haying 'juries properly and carefully selected, men of good sense, reliable and intelligent, sober and just. And then a jury ver- diet would mean far more than it does now. A ,g Hair Vjg0r is certainly a re- markable preparation and nothing like it has eyer been product d. No matter how wiry and unmanageable the hair may be, under the influence of this in comparable dressing, it becomes soft, -sit- R1Mr Dllable to the comb and fa Q Fo m1 b E. T. Whitehead fc IO. A BLACK NAPOLEON. SINGULAR COINCIDENCES WHICH UNITE THE HOUSES OF BON APARTE AND CHAKA. Story of The Rise of The Zulu Chief. Norfolk Virginian. In the island of St. Helena, where the white Napoleon euded his days a prisoner to the English, a black Napol eon is living now also a prisoner. It is a singular chapter of coincidences which seems to unite the fortunes of the house of Bonaparte and the house of Cnaka. Early in the century, when Napoleon was overrunning Europe with his armies and dazzling the minds oi men with h's genius, an English sailor was wrecked on the African coast and wandered into Zululand. lie was taken before the young chief, Chaka, and to him he told of the wonderful outside world, of which the chief had heard rumors, and as all the world was then filled with the name of Napoleon, he told of the rise of the Corsican and how he bad con quered nations and built up for him self a great empire. The story of Na poleon captured the fancy of Chaka, and he resolved to be an African Na poleon. iUBU saniD OI K" "UIU 1U owlu A,rica' auu ri ..l 0...1L i (.: a riL.i I spread his conquests over great terrl- . i x.z.. : u l t llco auu 8uuJU6ax uuuu. A 1 I -1m m tf wioes ana oum lor nimseu an empire. It flourished until it broke itself to pieces against the English, just as the empire of the man whose name had in- spired its building did before it. The empire established by Chaka stretched along the whole southeast seaboard of Africa, from Limpopo to Cape Colony, and extended far inland. When the English landed in Natal n 1824 the empire of the A.mazula was the most powerful in Africa, Chaka made a treaty with the English, allowing them to live in Natal, and for this he was killed by his brother, Din - gaan, in 1828. Then began the strug- gle between the white man and the black man which was to end in the destruction of the empire founded by Chaka. Peace and war alternated, and all the time the Zulus lost ground. Finally in 1833-4 the British felt bound to blot out the Zulu power Then it was that Cetewayo, the heir of Chaka, summoned forth his whole j . ,.i.:-s :! i .1 ments on the British. At Isandulu the Zulus broke the British squares and routed the redcoats, but the end was the capture of the chief and the breaking of the Zulu power. in this war the house of Bonaparte again became mixed up with the for tunes of the house of Chaka. The rince Imperial, grand-nephew of the man whose example had inspired the building of the empire of the Amazulu, went out to fight in the ranks of the j l:h.j i -CiOglisn auu was kiubu uy aiiuiuoirou. i n 1884 Cetewayo died, and the quarrel was continued by his son, Dinizulu. Dinizulu was conquered, and now he has been sent to St. Helena to end his davs on the soot where the man whose example caused the building up of the black king's empire died As becomes the head of a great and warlike line, Dinizulu is accompanied in his exile by a numerous retinue. His two uncles, several chiefs, a phy sician and a clergyman, wi th their and children, make up ahouse- wives auu hold as numerous as was that of the great Napoleon when at St. Helena The chaplain of the royal exiles is aul Hitimkula, a "catechist," from Cape Town, who was invited many years ago by Cetewayo to come to Zu- ulnnd and teach the people. He is called by the Zulus Doctor Paul. He ccompanied the exiles to St. Helena of his own accord. Dr. Wllby, an Persons who are troubled with m- dieestiou will be interested in the ex- nerience of Wm. a. renn, cniei cierK in the railwav mail service at lies K . I 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- fn fronnont. nnvATA at.tfl(.lrfl nf nain I - . . . t I in the Rtomacn ana Doweis. one or o. Hma. nt thia mmarfv navAr fails to I fftvenerfect relief. Price 25 and 50 Iinu uuooo u. " j " I cents ; for sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co. AT' SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00. 1898. NO. 5 No. 203. Thlsquar-ter-wwed oak writlnjr desk la pof- isnea lue piano. It has 0-lnch beveled lato g-taM n top and deep drawer below. Ar tistic French also finis In mahogany. 93.95 Is our spec ial Drioe for this S10 desk. (Ma i orders filled promptly.) We will mall anyone, free of all charges, our new lis page Speoial Cata logue, containing Furniture, Draperies, Amps, Stoves, Crockery. Mirrors. Pictures. Bedding. Refrigerators. Baby Carriages, etc This is the most oom plete book ever published, and we pay all postage. Our lithographed Carpet Catalogue, showing carpets In colors, la also yours for the asking. If carpet samples are wanted, mall us 8c. in stamps. There is no reason why you should pay your local dealer 00 per cent- profit when you can buy from the mill. Drop a line now to the money-aayers. JULIUS HINES & SON, Baltimore, lid. Please mention this paper. CITIZENS BANK, TARBORO, N.O. CAPITAL $25,000.00 PAID UP $10,000.00. We solicit a share ot the patronage of the people of Scotland Neck and vicinity. We grant our customers every accommodation consist- flnt ... 1 jAg q MEHEGAN, Manager. I 1 Englishman, is the physician to the exiled household. - AH the Zulu at- tendants who wait on the exiles went to St. Helena of their own accord. Dmizulu speaks and writes English 1 fluently, and is a man of more than I ordinary intelligence. An effort is now being made to procure the release ot Dinizulu. It is argued that bis re- turn to his own people would .convince them that the English intend to deal 1 fairly with them. But the British Government would hardly dare to place again in the heart ol the valiant na- tion of the Zululand a man of the abil- ity and the bravery of Dinizulu Food, Work and Sleep. New York Ledger. What a great mistake it is to con- tend that tlme teken fr0m to" for eIeep and recreation is time lost ! There is nA frwin tor lollanv frtf ctloArh on1 ienran. b J ' tion form' 88 ,fc were' lhe cement Put in t0 fil1 nP the 3oiata in order 10 keeP e weather and preserve the edi fice' A man does not necessarily re quire riches, honors or orhce-although the majority of us naturally have an ambition to attain one of these desid erata-but he does need food, work and aivai eh0ld use r? means to Pronnote me' 1 AHJ atnnA A 4hMtA fhinna auu fe to be kept in mind. When a man denies himself sleep, food and tne ex ereisw"IS,vco u"" w """" boiy, he is robbing his life of Us lull P" t him be cheerful also, for in uuu ,a au " 11 and lon if 11 18 wel1 oiled' Con which keeps the nerves irom wearing out A Cure for Lame Back. "My daughter when recovering from an attack of fever, was a great sufferer fi.8' JKS Louden Grover. ot Sardis. Ky. "After I using quite a number of remedies with out any benefit she tried one bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and it has j gjven entire relief." Chamberlain's Pain Balm is also a certain cure fori by E. T. White-! ! rheumatism. Sold head & Co. Tie Norfolk Dyeing, Gleaning ana Bepairing: Go. OLD SUITS MADE TO LAPIES' SUITS, GLOVES, ETC., CLEANED AND DYED AT LOWEST RATES. Suits Dyed, .$2. Hats Cleaned, 25c. Knee Suits Cleaned and Pressed, 4UC. 20c. Pants, 30. Write or see us in PANTS PRESSED, . i . I 1 A we emoiov oniy me oesi wuuibu. nr no nav. Snecial attention 441 Main St., Uladstone iiotei uunaing, ukiuliv, v. . I " . Mention this paper. YOU WIXI ADVERTISE TOUB Business. Send Your Advertisement in Now. R.E.L.PITT, TARBORO, N. C. BICYCLES OF ALL KINDS ON HAND. Ever Johnsons, Bitsburg, $100. $75. .'g&T'Siiecialty in repairing. All parts furnished for any bicycle manufac tured. l.UMBING AND STB AM FITTING ATLOWhftl 1 K'CES. 6 251 -o- , Ka., DONNELL GILLIAM. Attorney. ' W 20 ly. Four Dollars a Ton for Corn Stalks. Washington Post. "The despised corn stalk, which for all these years the farmers have burnt as of no account, just as the cotton planters used to throw aside the seed of that plant as valueless, at last turns out to be of such worth as to pay handsomely for marketing," said Mr. D. M. Frank, of Kentucky, at the Riggs. "Our farmers are selling it readily lor $4 a ton, and on an acre producing forty busheh of corn there wiI1 1)8 at least two and a half ton8 of stalks. The uses to which the stalk is being put is one of the most extra ordinary agricultural discoveries of the day. At present there are but two factories in the country that are equipped for making cellulose out ot this material, one of which ta located at Owensboro. Cellulose is the pith of the corn stalk ; its uses are varied and wonderful and it has a market value of $4.00 a too. War vessels are lined with it, and whenever a vessel so lined is punctured with shot, the contact of the water with the cellulose causes that to swell, closing the aperture and preventing the water from entering between the ship's inner and outer walls. "Besides, the railroads have found it to be far superior to cotton waste for packing journals, as it requires less oil and obviates hot boxes. As a cove ing for steam pipes- it is the best kn jwn substance. For making paper it is found superior to wood puip, ana irom it kodak films, frescoes, and all papier mache articles can be made. This' does not begin to exhaust the list of its marvelous possibilities, and from what I have seen and heard I believe that dozens of other useful articles, as lino- jleum, water-proof garments, patent leather finish, and the like can be pro duced from this simple material of the fields." If the care of the hair were made a part oi a lady's education, we should not Ne 80 many gray heads, and the ' 1 -inA sif TToll'a TTali Panama. nrriA K. , ,.,. unnecessary. For sale by E. T. White- head & Co. LOOK LIKE NEW. Suits Cleaned and Pressed, 7c. Boys' uoats uieanea ana rressea, wc. vests, Overcoats, 7oc. regard to Club Rates. 10c. 11 mm.! mill ItA nna.on looil affofaafrhW nw wvvj eiven to an Kinas oi repairing. . . . n .... - wrs-imns-vr -TP- . 9 30 3m. 2N x f ; - - V'"-"Sn.--"' ij.
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