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H OWARD ALSTON, Attorney-at-Law, LITTLETON, N. C. M C. 31. J U KUIiKOUl' . n-w'-n - r ri v "VT ATTOBXEY-at-LAW, HALIFAX, N. C. 9 9 ly P AUL V. MATTHEWS, A TTORNE Y-A T-L A W. "Collection of Claims a specialty. !2 2 1y ENFIELD, N. C. D R. C. A. WHITEHEAD, es nrilTAI 'tty Tarboro, N. C. QUDSON 'S ENGLISH KITCHEN, 187 Main St., NORFOLK, VA. Is the Leading Dining Room in, the City for Ladies and Gentlemen. Strict ly a Temperance Place. All meals 26c. fiy Hudson's Snxpaarinr Coffee a Surgeon, THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS. Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. Great Britian seems to be in danger of getting into trouble over the prop osition to lend China $60,000,000 to pay off the last instalment of the Chinese indemnity to Japan. Let us hope, in the cause of humanity and in the interest of universal peace, that there will be no war in the East. The President and his Cabinet de cided recently that this country shall be represented by a warship at Habana. For the first time since the insurrection broke out in Cuba some three years ago has this government a war ship at the port of Habana. The steamship Maine has been sent there but it is claimed that the sending of the ship is in no way hostile but done through courteous relations. There has been some advocacy of moving the United States Military Academy from Annapolis, Md., to Newport News', Va., which has led the Rich mono Dispatch to suggest the necessity of a naval training school at Hampton Roads. There is surmise that perhaps there may be needed an increase in the navy ;ind in consideration of this possibility, the paper referred to thinks that we ought to have more trained men. A great naval training school so located that the men could be trained practi cally as well as theoretically, would feem an easy solution as to how to supply an increase of our naval forces that should be intelligent and capable. It is a fact much to be regretted that many good people who are pretty well educated poorly show it in conver- ation. So many persons' get into the habit of expressing themselves in a oose, ungrammatical way that you can with difficulty tell who is educated or who is not. It is inexcusable in persons who know better to use "bad grammar," as it is incorrectly termed. If an expres- sion or word is incorrect it ought not to be called grammar at all. It is just as easy to speak correctly as incorrect ly, if one will be carefnl until the habit of correct speaking is formed. Many a tot learns from its educated mother to use incorrect words and phrases which perhaps cling to it until the young man or young woman of after years shocks educated people by careless expressions. Every age and generation ought to be an improvement on former ones, and it as important to improve in speech as anything else. Let there be more care for correct language amongst those who -konw what is correct. Negroes give trouble sometimes in elections by crossing state lines. The Washington Post recently said : "Across the boundary line between Virginia. and North Carolina the tobac co working negroes pass back and forth, and thus cause trouble for Rep resentative Swanson, of Virginia. Mr. Swanson has a contested election case on his hands, and the negroes who wander in and out of his district are to blame. Four years ago they were in North Carolina, giving him 200 or 300 majority. The Democratic House de cided tbat they belonged in North Car olina, and allowed Settle to keep his seat. Two years ago they were back n Virginia and Settle lost the district by the same norrow margin, fcwanson got the certificate, despite the negroes, but now it is claimed that the maionty was really against him. It is expected that the committee will decide that the negroes really belong in North Caro lina, and if this course is taken, Mr. Swanson is safe in his seat. Even if they should be allowed a residence in Virginia, Mr. Swanson can Bhow that a larirp nrnnortion of them did not c r Kr comply with the voting law a num ber sufficiently large, it is said, to in sure Mr. Swanson's retention oi the eeat if their illegal votes are thrown out.'1 Our Grandmothers' Remedy. Con en medicine will not care con sumption, but Dr. David's Cough Syrup will cure the cough which, if neglected, And in consumption. Pure- pine jur, boar-bound anoVjiibl cberry-Our GREAT THOUGHT. IT IS THE DEIVE-WEEEL OF TBS WOBLD. MAKES LIFE WORTH LIVING. Some Rambling Thoughts. BY NEMO. (Copyrighted by Dawe & Tabor.) A pimple by no means proclaims approaching death. One day it is yisi ble ; another day, and it is gone. 'View ed with a microscope it is terrible enough, but looked at from a fitting distance it is lost to sight. Olten it is solely a sign of unhealthy skin in one small spot, that is all. Thus also with the startling murders that reach our knowledge through a microscopic 'press. Awful are their details and enormous seem their tendencies as they fill out columns of space to the exclusion from our vision of all those things that are progressive and healthy. Believe me, the powerful poisons in our National life are not to be found in these fierce blotches, unsightly though they may seem. There is more danger beneath the smooth skin of a false civilization, where selfishness rules employers, and, in turn, domi nates the workers as well ; where men lose sight of their obligations to one another ; where purses breed pride and poverty breeds envy ; where, beneath sanctimonious professions lust rules rampant both within and without the household ; where boys are not taught to reverence womanhood, and where girls are not taught to reverence them selves. Surface complaints show them selves and are treated ; chronic diseases too often sap the strength until too late. Against these let us be watchful, instead of lifting up "holy" hands in horror at some wretched yielder to anger. A sententious individual when asked the time-old question, "Is life worth living?" replied very aptly, "That de pends on the liver." True enough ! whether you have in mind a person o." an organ of the body So mark you, before we go any further, that in food there is both life and death. The very elements that strengthen us, and build our tissues, begin to poison us unless they are removed from .the body as soon as their work is done, and in this abor of removal, the organ mentioned above does quiet, uncomplaining ser vice under great aggravation from some of us, unholy eaters of complex dishes. So far as our bodily life is concerned, the world is nothing but a vast feed ing-crib, whereat we must linger, if we would live, and whereby we are laying up painful burdens to ourselves unless we eat wisely and not too well. But just as the child is discontented with creeping, after it once stands upright, so the joys of the world of thought make us sink to a secondary place in the joys ot the world of food, and the "liver's" estimate of life and its worth is settled by the thoughts be has. If he is satisfied with the thoughts of others and lets them pass through his brain like water passes through an open sluice-way leaving nothing be hind except a higb-water mark it is not astonishing that he finds life empty. Thought, like food, must be made to surrender to us nourishment, which thereupon becomes part ot our selves. If be takes hold of the thoughts of times past,- holds on to them as though thought never moved, swears by the knowledge he gained years ago, closes hi& mind both against the gaining or giving oi new, progressive, neipiui ideas, little wonder that life seems like tbemockcy of daylight tor a blind man. Thought like food must be con stantly added to and never retained Indefinitely without re-acting upon the world we liye in, or we stagnate in mind and become sluggish and ulti mately useless. . Or if he holds himself ready to be stuffed with opinions quicker than he can digest them like some unhappy turkeys tbat I remember in my child hood as being periodically forced gorge- ed full of barley meal it is notsurpns- dered view of the one life to the end of which he is hastening. It is thought that makes life worth liymg. Many oi my readers will not be able to agree with me at once, but later we shall. Bight thoughts make right acts and right acts make life worth the struggle ot seeing it through. Very few of us stop to reckon the in fluence of thought on the world. Every improvement of nature, every artificial change in the surface of the earth, is the result of thought taking shape in the brain of one man or generations of men. Every political privilege, every fight for conquest over enemies outside or within ourselves is the outcome ot thought ; every betterment of men's conditions onward from the cave-dwell ers to our modern comforts has first taken form in some man's mind ; every straining upward of the race towards morals or towards God is Thought ! Thought ! ! Thought ! ! ! Great is thought and happy are they who give it full piay. They joy to fol low others until some pinnacle is reached, and then fearlessly they leap upward yet higher, finding in thought and Us materializations the bringing to light ot life in all its grandest pos sibilities. A MOTHEE'S MEMORIES. I have no royal store of wealtb, My treasure fills but one small chest ; Yet when I lift its lingering lid My soul is then with sweetness blest ; For there's a lock of silky hair Shining so bright with sunny gleams- More rich to me than all the gold That lies in beds of Afric's streams. And there I see a single curl That round my very heart entwlnes- More precious than the dazzling gems That sparkle from the dusky mines. And all around, the tiny clothes With colors faint and faded lie ; Yet more to me than Orient stuffs Or richest hues from Syrian dye. And underneath the broken toys Bereft of all their pristine bloom, But yalued more than curio quaint From antique shrine or rifled tomb. For, oh ! these trifles are to me Far more than any treasure train ; Through them I waken memory And have my children back again. The Salt Habit. Jouriial of Hygiene. The use Of salt as a condiment is so general and so universally believed in as necessary that we rarely hear a word against its excessive use, but there are a multitude of persons who eat far too much salt eat it on eyery thing, on meat, fish, potatoes, melons, in butter, on tomatoes, turnips and squash, m bread and on a host of foods toa num erous to mention. To so great an ex tent is it used that no food is relished which has not a salty taste, and this bides more or less the real taste, which is often very delicate. Now, the a mount of salt required in the system is comparatively small,and if the diet has been rightly compounded very little is necessary. Some go so far as to dis card its use altogether, but whether this is wise or not we will not here consider. What are some of the evils of the ex cessive use of salt? They are to par alyze the nerves of taste, or to prevent tbemo they cannot etrjoy anything which has not a salty flavor, and in ad dition there is a direct tax on both the skin and kidneys in removing it lrom the blood. Whether the skin is harm ed by this tax we do not know. Possibly it is uot greatly injured, yet we know that few people possess a healthy skin ; but it Is now pretty well settled that an excessive use of salt does overtax the kidneys in its removal, and that the great number of cases of derangement and disease of these organs is due to this use. It takes only a little time to learn to enjoy many kinds of food without salt, and we advise our readers and others to Iook into this matter and to try and diminish the use of this con diment so far as possible. We believe they will be better for ft. A few months ago, Mr. Bryon Every, of Woodstock, Mich., was badly afflict ed with rheumatism. His right leg was swollen tbe full length, causing him ereat suffering. He was advised tn trv Chamberlain's Pain Balm. ' Tbe first bottle of it helped him considera bly and the second bottle effected a LET US ALONE, PLEASE. THE SOUTH CAN STAND NOW. No More About Slaves. Charlotte Observer. The New England folks used to own negro slaves. New England is too cold for the negro blood. New Eng land sold her slaves to the southern people, who lived in a climate that the negro thrived in. Then the New Eng land and northern folks said it was wicked and naughty to own slaves, anyhow, and that the southern folks must abolish ' slavery. The South kicked against abolishing her property, much of which she had bought from the good Puritan people of the far Northeast. The two sections quarrel i ed and scrapped, and the South, along about the ninety-ninth lound, was pushed to the ropes, fell down, and was put to sleep, with no more slaves and no money in their place. Wben she was rubbed dowu and got her eyes open and had her bruises plastered, the South quit farming witb negroes and went to making cotton fabrics with white labor. Now the New England folks had been doing the cotton cloth making before and during the time that they were raising the racket fcr abolition. The southern negro slaves raised the raw cotton on white folks' plantations, it was sent to New England mills, made into cloth and shipped back for both tbe white folks and the black folks to wear. But when the South found her negroes free her houses burned, and her plantations devastated, she decided to diversify her long-continued occupation of agri culture. She grew cotton at her doors, she had water power to turn mill wheels, she had a contented Anglo Saxon breed of white operatives, so she dotted her recent battle-grounds with mills, and went actively and earnestly into cotton manufacture, and she suc ceeded beyond her expectations. She discovered that she could successfully compete with the New England folks, who are tar away from the mills, and bave discontented, restless, foreign im migrants or their descendants for la borers. Now, in the course of some thity- three years, the New England people find themselves hard pressed by tbe southern cotton-mills. They find that southern goods undersell their own goods, of similar grade. They come down to see us, we show them our mills, and bow we run things, and they go back home, say it is our long bours and non-striking working people that give us the cinch, and forthwith reduce the wages of their hands 10 per cent. Tbe southern folks have no kick to make about this. But when a New England congressman tries to secure congressional regulation of our south ern working hours, we do kick. New England, led by Massachusetts, is re sponsible more than any other section of the north, perhaps, for weaning us from our peaceful, listless, easy-going farming life, on our wide-extending, sun-kissed acres of cotton and corn, and impelling us to hustle and get a hump on us, to ranee to the music of tbe spindle and to double-quick into pros perity to the rattle of the shuttle. Let New England move her mills down among us. We will welcome her. But she must not intermeddle. The Ashe- ville Gazette hits it off right when it says: Now if some statesman whose patrol t- ism covers this whole country like a blanket mortgage, will introduce a bill In Congress to do away with the "mon opoly" of a temperate climate in the South, which works the disadvantage of New England, the hope may be enter tained of eradicating the discriminat ing conditions "that are now cramping our manufacturing industries." Con gressman Lovenng's bill introduced in the House to place hours of labor under national regulation, in order to do away with discriminations in favor of the South, is altogether too conservative. It is merely temporizing with con ditions that should be violently over thrown. No monopoly should be al lowed to exist In this country. In Aluka mirrTS jrws?i r fbarr" r--vi desk is no! Ished like a Eimno. It m a 9-inch beveled plate glass in top and a deep drawer Deiow. tistlo French legs; also finished In mahogany. Q3.95 to our spec ial price for this $10 desk. ( Mail orders filled promptly.) m charges, our new lis page Special Cat- Lamps. Stoves Crockery. Mirrors, Pictures, Bedding, Refrigerators, Baby Carriages, etc This is the most com plete book ever published, and we pay all postage. Our lithographed Carpet a yaraiogue, snowing carpets in colors, is aiso yours ior the asking. If carpet samples are wanted, mail us to. in stamps. There is no reason why you should pay your local dealer 60 per cent, profit when you can buy from the mill. Drop a line now to the money-save is. JULIUS HINES & SON, Baltimore, Md. Please mention this paper. and be compelled to rest tbe othe eleyen months and 712 hours. Tbe Constitutm should be so amended tbat no cotton factory should be nearer than 1,200 miles from cotton plantation. Mr. Lovering's bill is worthy of the genius of a Kansass Congressman. His folks forced us into tbe cotton manufacturing, for which relief much1' thanks. We are grateful for their kindness. But they must let us alone henceforth. No paternalistic interfer ence by the government. States' righ ts are not all gone. No congress ional intermeddling with manufactures. "ARE WE DOING THE BEST THAT EVER WE CAN ?" In the trials that come to every one'? door, Whether he's rich or whether he'r poor, In the blessings that come through our Father's care, Which help us our burdens and sor rows bear, Whatever our lot, whether child or man, Are we doing the best that ever we can? Oh ! father as over life's paths you go, Whose eyes are on you, do you know? Why, that boy is watching whatever you do ; He knows if your life is false or true, To help that boy become a noble man, Are you doing tbe best that ever you can? Oh ! mother, you who In life's mad whirl, Such influence hath o'er your boy and girl, Whose every word after many a year, May come back to that child as a memory dear, Wben the girl's a woman, the boy a j man Are you doing the best that ever you And children, you who in the future must take Your place in lile's struggle and he!p to make The world purer and better or deeper in sin, Which side will you help a victory win? To grow up to be a pure woman or man Are you doing the best that ever you can? And, wben at last holding our Father's hand . We cross o'er the river at His com mand, And receive from our Saviour the plaiidif, "Well done." The golden harp and the crown just won, Then we'll know that for us, poor fal len man, Jesus Chiu-t. is doing the best He can. llollie Roberson Wiltshire. BUCKLEN'S ARNICA bALVE. 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It is really a complete manual tor the Garden and Farm, and will be mailed free upon application. T. W. WOOD & SONS, SEEDSMEN, - - RICHMOND, VA. THE LARGEST SEED HOUSE III THE SOUTH. THE PENNTIN CHUBCH COL LECTIONS. Such an Offering, Except From The Poor, is an Insult to God and His Church. "The important part which the penny plays in the average church offering is Known to everj one who has ever been interested in church finances," writes Edward W. Bokin the February Ladies Home Journal. "And that it is a part entirely out of proportion to the necessi ties.is felt and realized by many a church treasurer. Scores of people who could afford to drop a nickel or a dime into the church offering, content themselves by giving a penny. The feeling is either that the smallest offering 'will do,' or the matter of church finances is not given any thought. There is a Failure to realize that a church is tbe same as any other business institution, and it must have money for its main tenance. "There is such a thing as too literal an interpretation of the phrase that 'religion is free.' Of course, It is free, and let us hope that it will always be so in this country. But to make religon free costs money and this isn't an Irish bull, either. There are those to whom more than 'the widow's mite' given to the church would mean doing without some absolute necessity of life. The penny of such a one is the most welcome gift to any church, the most noble offering which any one can make. But from those who can give more than a penny, and who are giv ing only the penny, such an offering is an insult to God and to His church, and the sooner people see the matter in this bard,true light the better. I am almost tempted to say that the great majority of churches could, with per fect justice, rule out the penny from their offerings. Were this done the nlckle would be the prevailing offering, and-to bow few persons, wben one dtops to consider the question, would such ' an offering be a hardship or an lm- : potability? A yearly Offering of two dollars and sixty cents, calculating that one attended church onceeach Sunday, or twice, with one offering of five cents, would galvanize tbe church finances of this country." Aver's Cherry Pectoral is known by its works. Th experience of half a century proves that no other prepara tion of the kind stops coughing and allays irritation of the throat and bron chial tubes so promptly and effectually as this. For sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co. An Old Meat. Every day strengthens the belief of emi nent physicians that impure blood is the caase of the majority of our diseases. Twenty-five yean ago this theory was used as a basis for the formula of Browns' Iron Bitters. The many remarkable cures effected by this famous old household remedy are sufficient to prove that the theory is correct. Browns' Iron Bitters is sold by all dealers. Unlike most proprietary medicines, the formulae of Dr. J. C. Ayer's Sarsa parilla and other preparations are cheerfully sent to any physician who applies for them. Hence tbe special favor accorded these well-known tandard ramediea bv the World's Fair
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