North Carolina Newspapers

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Ff r advice, in cases requiring special directions, address, giv ing symptoms, "The Ladles' Ativisory Department," The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. ..e0S. Mrs. ROZEHA LEWIS, cf GenavilSe. Texas, says: " I was troubled at monthly intervals v.l'.h terrible pains in my head and back, buthsve been entirely relieved by Wine oi Csniui." I T5T PROFESSIONAL. Fw A. C. LIVEEMOX, OfTiCE-Over the Staton Building. Office hours from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to f o'clock:, p. m. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C II? A. DUNN, lis ATT OR X E Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices -.vherever his services are Kfiired. W. II. Day. David Bell. DAY & BELL, ,1 TTORXE YS AT LAW, ENFIELD, N. C. Practice in all the Courts of Hali 'x and adjoining counties and in the Supreme and Federal Courts. Claims collected in all parts of the State. IF W. J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, EXFIELD, N. C. Office over Harrison's Druf Store. E DTTARD L. TRAVIS, tiornev and n.'nvAlnr at Law. HALIFAX, N. C. Jlonni Loaned on Farm, Lands. HOWARD ALSTON, n Attomey-at-Law, LITTLETON, N. C. -L FURGERSON. ATTORNEY-at-LAW, HALIFAX, N. C. 9 01 pAH, V. MATTHEWS, ; A TTORXE Y-A T-L A W. fColIeclion of Claims a specialty. h' ENFIELD, N. C. ti C. A. WHITEHEAD. DENTAL Surgeon, mmmm Taeboro, N. C. SPRING PARK HOTEL, J. L. SHAW, Proprietor. Littleton, n. a l)Od ncMmmnrlatlnna near Rhflw'fl S. a ln sPngs at 91.50 per day. T1 y nates $1.00. HI 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. There is marked improvement al .uiuufcu me oiate m agricultural in terests. In many places farmers are using much more improved farm ma chinery than one supposes who does not go out into the country often. And with the use of better machinery the farmers are improving their lands to a j high state of cultivation. And when the war with Spain is over and the Democratic party is reinstated into power, North Carolina will find herself moved up considerably in the march of progress. "It is an ill wind that blows nobody good," they say, The high price of wheat will be a means of convincing farmers this fall that they ought to raise their own wheat at home. In most parts of North Carolina wheat is already a Bread crop ; but in some parts of Eastern Carolina there is little or no wheat raised at all. In Halifax county the farmers as a rule pay very little attention to wheat raising. The Commonwealth believes, as it has said all the while, that there is no good reason why farmers here should not raise their own wheat. Stand upon any vantage ground oi observation you may and cast about for a view of the good and evil forces in our land, and when you have cata logued the forces, you can easily write it down that one stupendous evil which negatives many good influences is the awful curse of intemprance. It is the serpent of evil that injects poison into almost everything to which men turn their thoughts and hands. Oh, that American intellieence and manhood would rise in one mighty effort and stamp it out forever ! It would move up the progress of this land a century in a day. A few days ago at Wake Forest we saw a farmer taking in a check from a cotton buyer for about 25 bales of cot ton. On investigation we found that the farmer was one of those wise tillers of the soil who always make home sup plies? and are therefore independent. This wise farmer found it quite con venient to sell his cotton just when it suited him, and was not under the necessity ot selling it at th9 first possi ble day to meet a mortgage. If all the farmers in North Carolina would do likewise, the cry of hard times would not be so frequent or so loud. This is the season when sweet girl graduates from the female colleges and masters and bachelors of arts from the male colleges, find themselves con fronting perhaps the first question of real life. After years of toil and study they come to that period at which years ago they thought they would be fully panoplied for the fight of life. But now they realize that they have just begun the real preparation for life's great busy day ahead. They have simply been learning to prepare for work ; and now they are to begin their work iu earnest. The work of the first day is additional preparation for the next, and so as they advance into the maze of the years ahead they will find that they are to be learners always. The work of today is a lesson for tomorrow, and so on through the whole length of life. May their present purity oi life be the basis on which they shall build characters as pure as their young lives are sweet and guileless ; and may their careers be as great as the prayers and hopes for them are earnest and strong. Bad management keeps more people in poor circumstances than any other one cause. ' To be successful one must look ahead and plan ahead so that when a layorable opportunity presents itself he is ready to take advantage of it. A little forethought will r ' save much expense and valuable ...no. A prudent and careful man will keep a bottle of ChamberlaiD's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in the house, the shiftless fellow will wait until neces sity compels it and tnen ruin his best horse going for a doctor and have a big doctor bill to pay, besides ; one pays out 25 cents, the other is out a hundred dollars and then wonders why h s neighbor is getting richer while he is getting poorer. For . sale by E. 1. Whitehead & Co - SCOTLAND ALL ARE SORRY. BUT THE "WAR MUST BE PUSHED. Presant-Day Thoughts. BY "NEMO (Copy righted by Diiwe & Tabor.) There is a tendency among some thinkers to regard the present war as a terrible reversion to barbarism. They think of it as a turning of the back upon civilization. I will agree with them if they are speaking of Spain, but I will not agree with them if they are speaking of the United States. The arguments they advance are familiar enough and well under stood : that war arouses the worst pas sion of men ; that civilization gains more during the quiet times of peace than in the bustling hours of war ; that the advancing thought of the world fa vors bloodless arbitration. We should be unprogressive indeed if we did not agree in a general way with all these state- . t At- 1 1 . mi lueuus lur way are an true, iney are untrue in relation to ourselves. This we can dare to say though fully aware that here and there in our forces are men of violent feeling who rejoice in iilling ; but these no moie color the general character of our hosts than one blot of ink colors the great, rolling, health-giving sea. First then ; why are we fighting? Because the best impulses of a nation's heart have been stirred., Even in the excitment of actual warfare those same good impulses impel us. Like David's men oi oia we taue our sworas in our hands and we reckon our lives as little, if we may but be able to place a cup of cold water at parched lips. It is sn heroic war ; as we have nothing to gain except the doing of good, and every thing to lose if the fortunes of war should turn against us. We did not seek the fight. Peace is attractive to our great commercial nation. But be cause we have feelings and because we ourselves have suffered from oppression, we from the highest motives stoop from our lofty estate t;o throttle tbe dogged blood-thirstiness of a dying na tion. Right under the shadow of our noble land, this creation of the fif teenth century in agony of its own ap proaching dissolution was seeking to drag down to similar distress and des truction of thousands of harmless ones. What could we do V Speak against it? We did and failed to stop it. Then what? Argue with a man deaf to mer cy, and make signs to a man blind with bloody hatred? and shall smite, No ! we smote be the cost what it may, until this remnant of the dark ages learns that the policy of pirates does not pay at the end oi the 19th century. , Vs So far from it being true that we are hot to kill ; I dare to affirm that there is in this country's great heart a feeling of real sympathy lor rank and file of the Spanish navy. It is against the Spanish official system that we Avar, and we sorrow over the poor, conscript ed boys who are made mere imple ments of murder in the hands of their superior officers. These poor fellows are utterly unlike our boys who real ize that they are "the people," that "the people" are the country and that when the country is at war "the peo ple',' are at war. But our ill-clad op ponents, having no quarrel with Cuba and no reason to hate us, are forced into combat ill-fed, and heartlessly. What did the victory at Manila indi cate, or the prompt dismatlement of San Juan, or Cardenas, or Matanzas? That Spain was sonnprogressive and so altogether unfit for rule that it became simply a murderer of its own people, by placing them in dangerous positions and yet leaving them absolute unpre pared for successful combat. Badly of ficered, and absolutely bereft of the feeling that makes the American sol dier conscious of his oneness with his officer, they have been led out like sheep to the slaughter. They have been sacrificed by official neglect and official greed ; for it is well understood that the money set aside by the Span ish government for food, for equip ment, and for target practice has gone to line official pockets. If the brutal ity oi Spain toward the reconcentra dos were not sufficient to have filled up the vial of its doom, the criminal neglect of most ordinary training for its own defenders is enough fo bring Mr. John Bevins, editor ofthe Press, Anthon, Iowa, says : "I have used Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Di arrhoea Remedy in my family tor fit teen vears. have recommended it to hundreds of others, and have " never known it to fail m a single instance For sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co. ' . ' " - -- r " ,. imonw: "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1898. it to an end as one the Earth. of the powers of By all that is merciful in humanity ; by all that there is of dumb agony in the hearts of Spanish peasant moth ers who will mourn for sons torn from them and then robbed or every chance of life ; by all the lives of our own, en trusted to the United States, for a harsh deed that has, like the surgeon's wound, mercy in it ; by all the horrors m Cuba that we would bring to an end let us hope for short, sharp, decisive work. Then will this "nation whose ideal is peace, cease lrom chastising the culprit, tenderly watch for awhile the new republic, and progress once more along the path of its own most wondrous destiny, as a guardian oi hu man rights and human aspirations in the western hemisphere. Charlotto Observer Prizs Poem. Folhving is the prize poem for which the Charlotte Observer paid $50. It was for the unveiling ceremonies on May 20th. Rev. Walter W. Moore, D. D., of Hampton Sydney, Va,. was the author and successful competitor. THE YAKGUAKD OF THE REVOLUTION. To Piedmont Carolina, where virgin prairie soil " Bespoke abundant harvests to reward the tiller's toil, From homes beyond the ocean there came in days of old A band of sturdy heroes, a race of veomen bold. On all Catawba's uplands for there they found their rest, Those woods and wide savannas fulfill ed their longing quest Tbey reared their modest dwellings, they built the kirk and school, For well they knew how danger grew from skeptic and from lool. Behind the walls of Derry their fat hers' faith in God Had filled their souls with courage to defy the tyrant's rod ; 'Twere folly then to fancy that sons of sires like these Would bear a yoke of bondage or obey unjust decrees. Their heirloom was a volume which taught the rights of man, And made the l?ast a king and priest lree from despotic ban ; The people are the sovereigns, with rights inalienate, The people make the government the people are the state. This truth was taught by Craighead, thus Mecklenburg believed, And when oppressive measures passed, her sons were not deceived ; While others talked of redress as sub jects of the crown, They boldly broke the tyrant's yoke, and flung the gauntlet down. From seven congregations in which they preached and prayed, From woodlands and plantations, in homespun garb arrayed, These yeomen rode to Charlotte, these men of mien sedate, While high empriso shone in their eyes they came to found a state. And t here these dauntless statesmen, in ringing words and high, Declared their Independence "We'll win it or we'll die ; With lives and sacred honor, with fortunes great or small, Ws will serve the cause of freedom, we will break the Briton's thrall." xS'ext year the nation followed where Mecklenburg had led, To all the world, with flag unfurled, her high resolve she read : "No more shall sons of freemen en dure the tyrant's rod. This land shall be as Freedom free, or we foresworn to God." Through flaming broil of battle where Britain's bravest stood, On field and flood, by "blade and blood, they made their pledges good. And now, where'er their banner floats over land and over sea, With grateful lays the people praise the men who made us free. Then up with granite column, inscrib ed with lofty phrase, Let Mecklenburg's achievement re sound through endless days ; Her sons were first to utter the dis enthralled word, Let men proclaim their deathless name till all the world has heard. Total Abstinence at Sea. Manor News. Whatever the deep-water sailor's in clinations and habits may be ashore, he gets no liquor to drink, at sea, un less it come3 from alt and is dealt out to him. When the men that make up the crew go aboard, which they do just before the ship sails, their traps are searched, and if whiskey is found it goes usually over the side ; sometimes the captain takes charge of it and deals it out to the men in bad weather. It might be possible for a sailor to smug gle' aboard a little whisKey, enough to last,for a day, but after that he would be rnost likely a total abstainer until the ship reached port. A little boy asked for a bottle of "get up in the morning as fast as you can," the druggist recognized a household name for "DeWitt's Lutle Early Risers," and gave him a bottle of those famous littl e pills for constipation, sick head ache, liver and stomach troubles." E. T. Whitehead & Co. " THE RAINY SEASON. CUBA'S MOST CHARMING- TIME. Epidemics Due to Negligence. N. Y. Dispatch. Mr. Wrilliam T. Hornaday, chief naturalist of the'Smithsonian Institute, Washington, has spent nearly ten years iu East India, Borneo, and Sum atra jungles collecting rare animals, birds, insects, and serpents for the Smithsonian. He is the only white man who ever lived among the head hunters of Borneo. "All this talk of the danger in Cuba of the rainy season, yellow fever, etc., is greatly exaggerated," Mr. Hornaday said recently. "Because the Spanish army has lost heavily, many uninform ed persons fear that the country would be as fatal to newly arrived Americans as it was to green Spaniards. The Spanish troops I saw were wretchedly fed and clothed, and absolutely no heed is taken to enforce the " most obvious sanitary regulations. Then the food, clothing, medicines, everything the men should have to live upon, is fur nished by contractors, who stand in with the officers and simply starve the poor soldiers into disease and death. The Spanish women have a saying, 'When our sons goto Cuba or thei Philippines they never return.' Many a Spanish mother, whose son is coming near the time when he must do service in the army is praying that Cuba and Porto Rico may be lost to Spain before her son goes away. "After five years of living in the most malarial jungles on earth, in the midst of miasmatic swamps, drinking swamp water, and often having to eat unaccustomed and badly cooked food, I never had but one touch of jungle fever, and that only laid ere up six or seven days. I owe my excellent health to two or three precautions. I never slept on the bare ground nor in the rain, and always under shelter. I al ways wore light flannels next to the skin, and never slept in damp clothes. Whatever else I might have to do without, two changes of flannel under wear besides that I had on, were always at hand. Take from six to five grains of quinine every morning in a cup of hot coffee if you have it ; if not, then in hot water. Have your shoes to fit you, even if you must buy them your self, though the United States is fur nishing its troops with an excellent marching shoe. With these precau tions and a dose ot some light laxative twice a ween, there need be no more fear of fever in Cuba than there is in Missouri." - Mr. Morrillas, a Cuban born, and for some years an assistant surgeon in the United States navy, now in the Marine Hospital service in the tropics, said : "The rainy season, as it is called out of Cuba, is to Cubans the most charming season of the year. It begins generally about the middle of May and lasts to the middle of September. It usually rains in the afternoon, and sometimes the fall is very heavy and accompanied by such thunder and lighting as one never knows outside the tropics. It generally stops at sunset, which is simply unspeakably grand iu its cloud effects. I rarely ever have - known it to rain at night. It is this so-called rainy season that gives life and vigor to the growing vegetation and makes our sugar and tobacco crops what they are. " By eating well-cooked food and eschewing over-indulgence in the fruits of the country, usually so tempting to strangers, always sleeping under some sort of shelter and not on the bare ground, tbe green Yankee from New Hampshire hills may laugh at the bogy of the 'rainy season' and the yel low fever. It is well for the unaccli mated man the first three months of his stay to take from three to six grains of quinine every morning and a mild purgative, say twice a week. You may be as wet as possible it you are on the move, but when you stop change your wet clothes for dryones, socks and all. YouTwill never have this fever if you fol low these easily remembered rules." Progressive Euchre. Tribune. - This is what the Rev. Mr. Ciagett, of Dallas, Texas, says about progressive euchre : "It is one of the cunningest schemes Satan ever invented to fill up his fiery dominion. It actually makes me blush to think that there is need to talk to Christians about the right or the wrong of this thing. It began as a fad, a makeshift of those who could find no other way ot entertaining com pany. Now it is a curse ordinary gambling." A torpid liver robs you of ambition and ruins your health. DeWitt's Little Early Risers cleanse the liver, cure con stipation and all stomach and liver troubles. E. T. Whitehead & Co. EALTH SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $x.oo. NO 23 Heroes of Engine Booms. Atlanta Constintion. We agree with the New York Jour nal that the heroes of our modern bat tleships are not restricted to the mm who upon the smoke-enshrouded deck, participate in the glorious excitement oi the conflict. Removed from the fiery play of shot and shell, from encompassed by dan gers which are scarcely less imminent or real, the men who feed the engines in the close and sulphurous apartments of our modern battleship, without be ing permitted to see the sky above them or to know at what moment they shall sink forever, deserve to share the honors of the men who fight on deck ; and in this impending conflict we should not forget the nameless and ob scure heroes of the engine rooms. Says the New York Journal : "The engines mint keep moving and they must respond instantly to the will of ship's bram in conning tower or the battle is lost. "And it is not alone the great ma chinery that turns tne screws that have to be looked after. The whole ship is one maze of complicate! en giner3r. It is steered by steam directly, or indirectly through electric, pneu matic or hydraulic power, its great guns are loaded by steam ; it is lighted by electricity, which is supplied by dyna mos run by steam ; it is ventilated by steam steam is the source of all its activities. "Let the engines cease to work and the ship would die. It would drift like a log on the water ; its guns would be silent ; its interior would be swathed in darkness, and suffocation would drive its crew from its lower compart ments to the deck. But the machinist stands there the grimy, faithful phy sician, with his band on the ship's pulse to see that its heart does not stop beating. Down in his steel dun geon, with none of the inspiration of the'battle. he listens for the signals "Slow," "Half speed ahead," "Reverse," "Full speed astern" and upmihis vig ilence depends the success or failure of the captain's plan oi attack." What fate await3 ths heroes ot the engine rooms we cannot say, but our prayer is that the glory of the stars and stripes may be maintained in bat tle without the loss of one brave fire man or engineer. Cars of the Eyes. Harper's Bazar. This is a day when the delusion; to which one has held for years aro grad ually being swept away by those "who Know." One such delusion in which we all once believed was that to read while in a recumbent position was in jurious to the eyes. Oculists now tell us that if the light be good and the type of the printed page clear we may safely indulge in the luxury ot lying down and reading at the same time. But while our oculists tell us this, he also warns us that we may not use our eyes, before breakfast, as the strain on the optic nerve will seriously affect the sight. So she who would read be fore she rises in the morning must have her cup of coffee and a roll or slice of toast brought to her bedside. Unless one has unusuallly strong eyes one must not read when one is extremely weary. Exhaustion and fa ttgue affect all the nerves of the body and the optic nerve is so sensitive that it should receive particular con sideration. Nor should or.e ever bo guilty of the carelessness of writing or reading facing a window. This, too, is a cruel strain on tbe sight. Washing the eyes morning and night in water as hot as it can be brne is a wonderful tonic for those useful ser vants which are eo easily injured. When we consider how we neglect their welfare by using them by lading daylight and insufficient artificial light by forcing them to do work when they are weary, and by denying them the rest for which they long, we have cause to wonder not that they some times become mutinous and refuse to fulful! our demands but that they are ever faithful . in our service. They will, as a rule, be as good to us as we are to them. . 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Said the glass of wine to his paler brother, "Let us tell tales ot the past to each other, I can tell of banquet, and revel, anl mirth, Where I was king and ruled in might And the proudest and grandest souls on earth Fell under my touch as though struck with blight. Frcm the heads of kings I have torn the crown, From the heights of fame I have hurled men down ; I have blasted many an honored name : I have taken virtue and given shame ; I have tempted the youth with a tip, a taslo, Which has made his futura a barren waste. Far greater than any king am I, I have mado the arm of the driver fail, And sent the train from its iron rail, I have made good ships go down at sea. And the shrieks of the lost were sweet to me, For they said : 'Behold, how great you be ! Fame, strength, wealth, genius, before you fall, And vour might and power are over nil ; Ho ! Ho ! pale brother," laughed the wiiic, "Can you boast of deeds as great as mine." Said the water glass : "I cannot boast Of a king dethroned, or a murdered host ; But I can tell of hearts that were sad, By my crystal drops made light and glad ; Of thirsts I have quenched, and brows I 've" laved ; Of hands I have cooled, and souls I've saved. I hayo leaped through (he valley, dash ed down the mountain, Slept in the sunshine and dripped from the fountain ; I have burst my cloud fetters and dropped from Ihe sky, And everywhere gladdened the land scape eye. t i i .i . r 1 .1 . . and pain, I have made the parched meadows grow fertile with gram ; I can tell of the powerful wheel of the mill That ground out the flour and turned at my will ; I can tell of manhood debased by you That I have uplifted and crowned anew. I cheer, I help, I strengthen and aid, I gladden the heart of man and maid ; I set the chained wine captive free, And all are better for knowing mo." These are the tales they told to each other, The glass of wine and its paler brother, As they sat together, filled to the brim, On a rich man's table rim to rim. " The Valne of Persistencs. N. Y. Dispatch. "I'm loofcin' lor a job. I'm O'ki feller and I'll work cheap." This is the language m which ; n honest and rather simple looking m :n approached the head of a Chicago tiriu. "Sorry," smiled the proprietor. "h K we have nothing to offer just now. Call 'round again." Jake, as he called himself, wtilke l away a couple of blocks, and then faced about and returned to repeat his ap plication. "I been here," he said, "fur a and you told me to come again, here." Tbe proprietor, being busy, did recall the previous visit, and, after job, I'm not-in- forming Jake that there was nothing for him yet, asked him to come again. This time Jake made a round trip of about half a mile, and asain dropped in offering his services as twice before. "Persistent and looks honest," said the proprietor to his book-keeper. "Wonder what he could do?" "Might give him a chance to collect some of our impossible accounts," laughed the book-keeper. "He's the kind ot a man to keep pegging away, and even creditors can be worn out." Jake was given some of the worst old accounts that could be hunted up and started out. By making forty or fifty calls on the same man on the same day he began to make an im pression, and ' the firm is now get ting a good deal of money that had long since been charge 1 to pn tit and loss. (b O) 6) (o (6 to) (o o) (o