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IF YOU ARE HUSTLER TS TO BUSINESS ir w ti MMONWEALTH. YOU WILL ADVERTISE TOUR Business. o Sejtd Your Advertisement nr Now. H H -WHAT STEAM IS Machinery, E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XIV. New series Vol. 3. "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00. That Great Propelling Power. SCOTLAND NECK, N. 0., THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1898. NO. 28 CO i iJAT CJ ASS OF READERS THAT-YOU Wish your Adrectiseinent TO REACH" i. the class who read this paper. ONTHLY SUFFERING. 'T'housands of women are troubled at noathly inter vals with pains in tlie head, back. breast9f fahonlders,side9 J'ipsand limbs. But they need r.ct suffer. These pain9 are symptoms of dangerous derangements that can be corrected. The men strual i action should operate painlessly. M5 ELREES shaft. .'cukes menstruation painless, " and regular. It puts the deli cate menstrual organs in condi . tion to do their work properly. And that stops all this pain. Why will any woman suffer ricnth after month when Wine J of Cardui will relieve her? It 3 costs 5r.co at the drug store- Why don't you get a bottle to-day? For advice, in cases requiring special directions, address, giv ing symptoms, "The Ladies Advisory Department," The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. eOfiiH. Mrs. ROZENA LEWIS, of Oenavllle. Texas, says: " I was troubled at monthly intervals Y.';h terrible pains in my head and back. fi . cat ?ave Been enureiy relieved ny wins lrttMillltB PROFESSIONAL. p,K. A. 0. LIVEEMON, 0' ri, K-Over the Staton Building. O'liee h-'.f'.rs from 9 to 1 o'clock; 2 tc i ': . ... p. m. -GOTLAND NECK, N. C. 5J? A. DUNN, 'STi J TT ORXE Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, N. C. ?!;!.: ices wherever his services are W. II. Day. David Bell. DAY & BELL, A TTORXE YS A T LA IF, ENFIELD, N. C. Practice in all the Courts of Hali-f- and adjoining counties and in the 'M-:eme and Federal Courts. Claims ? tilec'ed in all parts of the State. pi:. W. J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, ENFIELD, N. C. O iico over Harrison's Druf Store. VRD L. TRAVIS, Attorney anil Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. ' Unary Loaned on Farm Lands. JO WARD ALSTON, Attorney-at-Law, LITTLETON, NV C. M. FURGERSON. ATTOUNEY-at-LAW, HALIFAX, N. C pVl'L V. MATTHEWS, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. W(Jollection of Claims a specialty, ly ENFIELD, N. C. u. 0. A. WHITEHEAD, U ... , ,: . - - DENTAL Surgeon, Tarboro, N. C. SPRING PARK HOTEL, J. L. SHAW, Proprietor. Littleton, N. C. ftood accommodations near Shaw's a. i-Heahng Springs at $1.50 per day SutidayRates $1.00. 1 X mm THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS. Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. "Onr Dumb Animals" says that if there were no birds man could not live on the earth, and that birds are de creasing in this country. Many would read these lines and pay no heed to the suggestion ; but there is perhaps more in it than one would at first think. There are some birds that are harmful to the interests of man, but far more that are helpful to his interests. Dr. Kingsbury, editor of the Wil mington Messenger; says that "Quo Vadis," the popular- bbok which has been so much admired and commend ed by some, is so offensive to morality and so descriptive ot lust that it has been roundly denounced by many "of the foremost journals and newspapers as unfit for family reading. He adds-; "It is really not a sound or safe book for youth of either sex. 'Quo Vadis' is full of slime and leaves a bad taste in the mouth." A newspaper correspondent writing from Washington has directed atten tion to the fact that out of a total of ninety men in the United States Sen ate thirty-two are veterans of the civil war. This is rather remarkable when it is remembered that that war ended a generation ago. The House also has a large percent age of war yeterans, despite the rush of younger men into political life. Reflection on these facts causes one to feel like America is a good country to be born in and that chances here are or long life. It shows also a vigorous race of people. In the meeting of the State Epworth League ot Virginia in Norfolk some days ago, Eev. G. W. Dyer, ot Cabell Street Methodist Church of Lynch burg, spoke on the subject : "Aliena tion of Wage-workers from the Church." The spe-aker too1 the posi tion that wage-earners are being alien ated from the church because the church is drifting towards wealth and culture. The allegation was a serious one, and raised a little breeze amongst some of the other ministers. Those who disagreed said the state ment was misleading and calculated to do harm to the church, and that? a larger number of professional men pro portionately slay away from church than wage-earners. It is a subiect worth the attention of all the denomi nations. Last week the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Norfolk, Va., presented that city with a free ice water fountain, erected at the corner of Commercial Place and Main street. The fountain will be supplied daily by ice which will enable any "one passing to. get a cool drink at any time of day, and even well into the nierht. S&y what you may about "crankey societies, and slur as you may at women's public service, but such work as placing an ice-water fountain on the principal street of the city in the hope that its cooling draughts will keep many a poor thrist-burnt wanderer from places of temptation, i3 in keeping with the spirit of the love which God delights to see in his people. And what seemed a serious reflection on the city of Norfolk, not an official of the city was at the deai cation exer cises to receive the fountain. Perhaps the most farcical thing about Governor Russell's administra tion has been his continual nagging at the railroads. He seems to have a mania for worrying aftefrailroads. President Warren G. Elliott made a most telling argument before the Rail road' Commission last week on the pas senger rates. Perhaps no attorney lor or against the railroad made a clearer argument. -i l l . i Z X The Commonwealth oeneves mat n the Commission is going to pester the railroads about a reduction of rates, the first reduction ought to be made on freight rates. . It is presumea tnac wnuu travels on the'railroads he goes on busi ness or pleasure. If on business it is presumed also that it pays him to make the outlay ior travel ; u i : hAtir ri o 18 a matter oi cnoiuu a " f spends his money. .. JNow, not many peiouns :t a n nsrhnns not one per- son in ten puts foot upon a railroad train onc a year, ine uuM.. mice then.' ir a. matter that concerns only a few, while a reduction on freight rates would touch every per son's interest, and especially the poor. We believe the uommissionouguvw make reduction on freight rales first if any reduction at all. A v r TilankTof" Lewisville, Texas, wrLCi'box of W, Hazel Salye was worth i0.00 to him. g cured his piles of ten years standing He advises others to try it. It also cures eczema, skin diseases and obsti nate aores. E. T. Whitehead &-Co. , SPEAKING PEOPLE. STRONG TIES ON BOTH SIDES OP THE OCEAN. Present-Day Thoughts. BY G. GROSVENOK DAWE. (Copyrighted by Dawe & Tabor.) When last week the suggestion was made that we this week touch upon the question ot the union of the English-speakers in favor of peace, it escap ed my attention that this letter would be issued near to Independence Dav. It is peculiarly fortunate that it should, as it will give deeper meaning to tne backward glance that we must take. The English-speaking world has movca in viz years and in no particu lar more than this that there is at absolute, unreserved confidence in the integrity of the common people. In 1776 we were wearied of tax tion with out representation, we chafed under numberless restrictions placed upon our devlopment, we were bewildered by the varied and conflicting charters oi tue thirteen original colonies, and we were outraged in spirit at having our lives and our liberties held as a light matter by obstinate and shortsighted-George III. But we were not one particle worse off than the English masses themselves. Tne voice of the people there was about as loud as the voice of a bat, and their progress as lit tle heeded. Yet since that time, so regular, so similar, so coherent has been the development of human rights under the genius of the English-speakers, that one neads hardly to say, "True of England," or "True of America," but rather "True of both." Each decade has seen more and fuller attention given to the strata of society previously despised. The opportuni ties of education have been opened al most unreservedly. The voice of the plain man has been given broader place in the councils of the nation. A tremendous adjustability has been dem onstrated by molding diverse people with diverse tongues into one feeling ot national life. Enterprise commercial, inventive, moral, mental has been and is a constant wonder to those na tions that have not moved so quickly. And above all, as I have already hint ed, trust in the people is the basis of it. These" previous sentences refer to both nations with equal truth. What we gained, however, by long and exhausting war, England has gain ed largely by peaceful revolution. Also while our scheme of government has remained practically unchanged, Eng land seems almost to have drifted ahead ot us in the ease with which the pulse of the people is felt. My meaning is this : That as the English Cabinet resigns whenever it loses its majority in the House of Commons, and as a general election immediately follows, the leeling of the people molds govern ment more quickly than where govern ment is elected tor n unrebukable four or six years. . . Now, if we will recognize that begin ning years before and culminating with 1789, France had longings for liberty which unfortunately vented ..itself .at once in license wo shall be able to understand somewhat ; the difference between the progress of the English speaker and the progress of others! The storm that swept away the weak Louis XVI and the oppressing nobles, has never ceased to rumble since. The Reign of Reason, the cometic career of Napoleon, the third Empire, the Com mune, Bonlangerism and what not ; have followed one another in wilder ing succession, and unwise would the man be who attempted to foretell the form.of government in . France twenty years hence. Even within six months we have seen that race-hatred m the Dreyfus case was allowed to extinguish ia judge and in public every sense of justice, sweeping aside with the howl-j ings of maniacs the prophetic warnings ot Zola, the brave. The rulers of France do not, because they aare not, trust their impulsive people. France calls itself a Eepublic, but after 122 years is nothing but a bureaucracy ; under a system oi espionage tnat would tie unbearable to us every laborer be ing compelled to carry a sort of record book of respectability, and every indi vidual being, in effect, an object ot sus picion, until proved to be innocent. Germany, too, while we have progress ed politically, still distrusts the people ; even represses their political aspira tions, and allows the army and force to rule. Russia is still the massive prob lem of the north, where, in a sense, the people have been granted freedom, but it is not the freedom that frees in very truth. Italy, even the united Italy effected by Garibaldi and others, is no land of popular trust; else why the bloody repressions at Milan a few weeks since? Austro-Hungary with apparently representative government has reached no higher stage than that where a little liberty increases distrust of each other, culminating in the dis graceful parliamentary riots in Buda Pesth last year. But England after 122 years still calls itself a monarchy yet. is to all intents and purposes a democracy. . - Is there the action of mere chance in this similar development - of the Eug-Jish-epeaker on both sides of the Atlan in ? No ! it is the genius of the people that makes tbem love fair-play, honor Bob Moore, of LaFayette, Ind., says that for constipation be has found DeWitt's Little Early Risers to be per fect. They never gripe. Try them for stomach and liver troubles. E. T. Whitehead & Co. law and order, and work for the rights of the lower rail in the political fence. Granting rights to that lower rail and giving it a chance to get up out of the mud of hopelessness and nothingness, is the true wisdom of the race ; because responsibility engenders conservatism. Possibly this biief review will lead us to greater thankfulness "regaiding the braye and wise men of the past than mere boasting ajbout Independence Day would do. We have every cause for thankfulness that the stolid, some what unimaginative, but exceedingly conscientious character of'a British an cestry was so strong over ns at the out set that the spirit of the country re mains the sameafter absorbing millions of other elements. These mixed ones, no longer held in repression at home, expand to our liberty and are part of us m every sense ; but they have left their governmental distrust at home. Apology is hardly necessaay for not having reached a discussion of the great duty of the English-speaker. These details regarding the oneness -of our devlopment were necss.iry, before the question of our union for peace bo properly discussed. Hobson a Model Man. Korfolk Virginian and Pliot. A Western newspaper has collected very many interesting facts connected with Lieutenant Hobaon, the "hero ot Santiago," which it publishes under the heading, "Personal Facts of Inter est about the Hero Hobson." From it we gather the information that Hobson was the yomigest man but one of his class at Annapolia ; that he was boy cotted by his whole clas, and that they called him "The Tin Saint" and "Parson Hobson." He graduated at the head of his class. He neither smokes nor drinks. He is devoutly religious. He prayed on the deck of the Mem mac, and he is the only American who went to Paris who never went to the Moulin Renge. His motto is "To do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with thy God." Evidently, remarks the Western journal, there was a good deal of the Stonewall Jackson in his make up. Printing these particulars, the Phila delphia Inquirer furnishes additional particulars as to the young lieutenant. Among other things that he is noted for is his neatuess,and the Inquirer com ments that "he is clean in hi3 linen, but he is also clean in his heart and his mind." There is no hing of the prig about Hobson. He is accounted the best dancer in the navy and he is recognized as among the most popular of the young men of his natiye town. To Annapolis he carried the same personal magnetism and was the idol of his mates "until dut' shnped in and caused him to report some ot them to higher officials." This brought about the "boycott," which has been noted, and which lasted nearly three years. "Many times his classmates endeavored to heal the breach, but be refused, until the time came for graduation, when he forgave and parted with them as a friend." The personal school through which the young man passed, says the Inquirer, was probably one of the hard est that "ever beset a man with a live ly sense of duty." He owed his troubles, as he owes his success and his fame, to his high ideal of duty. "It is evident," says the Inquirer again, "tnat the young man who patterns after him will have to walk a straight and narrow path." The Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier, alluding to these interesting facts m the biography ot Hobson, says that they are well worth the thought ful consideration of any young man. Every youth, it asserts, cannot be a lieutenant in the navy, nor yet a "hero" on tne puniic stage, .tie can oe a Hobson, however, in all that made Hobson what he is, and it is of such stuff that heroes are -made when the day of trial comes, whether it comes amid the shock of battle or in the no less searching and exacting conditions of every -day life. Hobson was a hero before he sailed into the "mouth of hell" at Santiago, or he would not have proved one when the demand was there made on his courage and de vtotion. More Harmful than Spaniards, N. C. Baptist. , The United States Government has been gettmg$114,000,0Q0 a year in licen ses from the liquor traffic. The present war tax will add to this amount JU million dollars more in round num bers 140 million dollars from this traf fic which does more to destroy the re public than anything else in it. To get this sum the United States gives permission for this traffic to get from the people one billion dollars a year and give in return nothing save ruiued character, wrecked homes and wasted property. The property of this state, real and personal, is less than 300 mil lion dollars, according to tax valuation which would make about one half .bil lion dollars in actual value. The liquor traffic costs this country one billion dollars a year. The value of two states like North Carolina is wasted in this traffic every year and the gov ernment permits this waste of life and resources that she may get 140 million dollars a year as license tees. The liquor traffic is doing our people far more harm every year than an invad ing army of Spaniards could do. Shall this state of affairs continue? It rests with the citizens of this country to say, for they are the government. Sick headache, biliousness, constipa tion and all liver and stomach trou bles can be quickly cured by using" those famous little pills known as DeWitt's Little Early Risers. They are pleasant to take and never uripe. E. T. Whitehead & Co. THE NEf WAR TAX LAW. Summary of the Different Levied. Taxes THE BILL A SWEEPING ONE. Commercial Paper of all Kixds'Tax ed. I he, Provisions of the Law WEST INTO EFFECT JULY 1st. The new war tax law went into ef fect July 1st. Among the articles of of taxation ot interest are the follow ing: Bankers with $25,000 capital, $50; with more capital $2 per thousand, capital and surplus included. Savings bauks with no capital stock, doing on Iv a savings ancTloan business for the benefit of depositors, are exempt. Brokers in stocks, bonds, exchanges, cotton, notes and securities, $50. Per sons having paid the special tax as bankers are not required to pay an ad ditional tax as brokers. Pawnbrokers, $20. Commercial brokers, $50. Custom house brokers, $10. Proprietors ot theatres, museums and concert halls in cities of not over 25,000 population, $100. Proprietors of circuses, $100 for each State where these is an exhibition. Proprietors of all oilier shows or ex hibitions for money, $10. Proprietors of bowling alleys and billiard rooms, $5. On all tobacco and snuff, 12 cents per pound. On cigars and cigarettes, $3.00 per thousand, on cigars weighing over three pounds per 1,000, and $1 per 1,000 on clears weighing not more than three pounds per 1,000. On ci garettes, $1.50 per 1,000 for goods weighing less than three pounds, and $3. GO per 1,000 for goods weighing over three pounds. In lieu of 2, 3 and 4-ounce packages of tobacco and snuff now authorized by law, there may be packages weighing 1 2-3,2 1-2 and 3 1-3 ounces, and smok ing tob eco weighinging 1 ounce. Articles of tobacco or snuff on hand April 14, 1898, pay half the difference between the new tax and the old tax already paid. - Stocks of tobacco, cigars and snuff on hand July 1 must 13 returned to the revenue department it exceeding 1,000 pounds of tobacco or 20,000 cigars or cigarettes. On bonds, debentures or certificates of indebtedness, 5 cents for. each $100, face value, or fraction thereof. Federal, state, county and municipal bonds are excepted. On each issue of stock, whether of organization or reorganization, by a company, association or corporation, 5 cents per $200, face value, or fraction thereof. On transfers of kIock, whether on the banks or not, and on sales, agreements to sell and transfers in blank, 2 cents per $100 face value. For each sale or agreement to sell, products or merchandise at any ex change or board of trade, or other similar place, one cent tor each $100. On each bank check, draft, or cer tificate of deposit not drawing interest, or order for the payment of any sum of money, drawn upon or raised by any bank, trust company, or any person or persons, companies or corporations at sight or in demand, two cents. On each bill of exchange inland. draft, certificate of deposit drawing in terest, or order for the payment of any sum of moiiP', otherwise than at sight or on demand, or on any promissory note, except bank notes issued for cir culation, and for each renewal of the same, 2 cents for $100 or fraction there of. This applies to domestic postal money orders. On foreign bills of exchange, letters of credit, including order by telegraph or otherwise, for the payment of money by express or other companies, 4 cents per $100 or fractions thereof. If drawn in sets of two or more 2 cents per $100 for every bill of each set. On export bills of lading 10 cents each. On express and freight, for each bill of lading, mauifest or evidence of re ceipt, 1 cent for each original or dupli cate. The issuance of bills of lading is made compulsory. On each telephone message for which a toll of 15 cents or more is charged, 1 cent. On each indemnifying or surety bond, and all other bonds not other wise specified, except such as one re quired in legal proceedings, 50 cents each. On certificates of profit or interest and transfers, 2 cents per $100. ' On certificates of damage, or port wardens or marine surveyors' certi ficates, 25 cents each. On all certificates of any description, required by law and not otherwise specified, 10 cents each. On each contract, broker's note, or memorandum of sale of any goods or merchandise, stock, bonds, exchange, notes ot hand, real estate or property of any kind issued by brokers or per sons acting as such, 10 cents. - On each- conveyance, deed, instru ment in writing, whereby lands, tene ments or other realty sold shall be granted, assigned, transferred or other wise conveyed, when the consideration or value exceeds $100 and does not ex ceed $500, 50 cents, and for each addi tional $500, 50 cents. " On each telegraphic dispatch or mes sage, 1 cent. Insurance, life : For each policy, 8 cents for each $100 insured. On in dustrial -insurance, 40 per cent, of the first weekly premium." This does not Thousands of persons have been cur ed of piles by using DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. It heals promptly and cures eczema and all skin diseases. It eives Immediate relief. E. T. White-' head & Co. . or co-operative ln- surance. Insurance, marine and inland, fire, lightning or other peril, one-half of per cent, of the premiums charged. Insurance, casualty, fidelity and guaranty, one-half of 1 per cent, of the premium charged. Vn leases ol land or tenements, for one year or less, 2o cents ; lor one to three years, 50 cents ; for more than three years, $1.00. Mortgages on pledges of real or per sonal property worth over $1 ,000 and not over $1,500, 25 cents, and for each additional $500 of value, 25 cents. On power of attorney for voting in elections of corporations not religious, charitable or literary, 10 cents. On power of attorney other than the above, 25 cents. On protest fees, 25 cents. Warehouse receipts, except for agri cultural products, deposited by the grower in the regular course of trade for sale, 25 cents. On patent or proprietary medicines, prepared by private formula, or occult art, or recommended as proprietary except mineral waters, the following tax according to size of packet, box. bottle, pot, phial, or other inclosure : Not over 5 cents, cent. Not over 10 cents, 2 8 cent. Not over 15 cents, cent. Not over 25 cents, cent, and for each additional 25 cents worth or frac tion thereof, g cents. The same rules apply to perfumery, cosmetL-3 and similar articles, inclu ding essences, extracts, toilet water, vaseline, petroleum, hair o'l, pomade, hair dressing, hair restoratives, hair dye, tooth wash, dentifrice, tooth paste, aromatic cachous or other articles used or applied to the hair, mouth or skin. On chewing gum 4 cents per box, carton, or paper package of le.s than $1 in value, 4 cents. Wines, 1 cent on pints, 2 cents on larger than pint bottles. The legacy tax falls on amounts over $10,000, except when passing to the husband or wife of the deceased. The rate varies according to degrees of consanguinity and the amount of the legacy, beginning with the lineal issue, which pays a tax of $ of 1 per cent, on amounts not exceedinsr 25.- 000. For similar amounts where the lega cy falls to the descendant ot a brother or sister, 1 per cent. Where the legacy comes through the brother or sister of the father or mother of the deceased, 3 per cent, on amounts net over $25,000. 1 or more remote heirs, 4 and 5 per cent, of amounts not over $25,000 vv here the amount ranges from $100,000 to $500,000 the rates are mul- npiicvi uy two. Where the amount ranges from 500,00 J to $1,000,000 by 1-:,-, and for amounts over 1 million, by tliree. 4 Makers or packers of mixed flour pay a tax of$12. On each barrel of 190 pounds or more than 98 pounds, there is a (ax ol 4 cents. On 98 pounds or more than 49 pounds, 2 cents. On 49 pounds or more than 24i pounds.. 1 cent. On 24. pounds or less, cent. The same applies to mixed flours imported, in addition to the usual duty. lea pays a tax of 10 cents a pound. Thank God for Earth's Beauty; Selected. We bless thee, O God for the beauty of the earth. Its delight of blossom and its promise of fruit-bearing lead our hearts up in gratitude to thee. Its throbbing life that climbi in every vein and spreads abroad in leaf and flower, its joy of the bird's song and the lamb's frisking and the herd's con tent comes of thy bounty. Help us to leave behind us every wintry doubt and fear and discontent, and, welcom ing the life thy Spirit brings, to grow in Christ's likeness as the trees grow each m the likeness of its own kind. Are we not children by thine own choice of fatherhood, O Gcd? Give us a child's joy that we may enter into thy content with the works which thou hast made. Prepare our hearts for fruit bearing and may thy life within us grow ever strong and pure, rich with all hope, ready tor every needed sacri fice, overflowing with thy peace through years of earth and till the glorious ages of the eternal lifo with thee. Through every gift that epeaks to sense, fragrance and beauty and music, kindle our hearts to anticipation of that home where thy presence shall be the secret of delight, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Cotton Seed Industry. Norfolk Virginian and Pilot. Last year in the cotton seed industry not less than 4,000,000 tons of cotton seed were consumed and the total value of the resultant products aggregated $120,000,000. Commenting on this showing the Atlanta Constitution per tinently asks the question : Could any thing be more remarkable than the ex traction of products worth so much as this farm material which was formerly without value? Prior to the late war between the States, cotton seed was used mainly ior purposes of fertiliza tion. Only the smallest percentage of each year s output was needed to plant the next j'ear's crop, and consequently the excess was something enormous. Then nothing could be done with this excess but to turn it back into the soil from year to year. But to-day, remarks tbe Constitution, the cotton seed fur nishes the basis for one of the South's great industries and is freighted with possibilities ior the luture, which are simply infinite, for, in addition to cot ton feed oil, various other commercial products are made from it, and still it has barely commenced to unfold its hidden resources. OLD NEWSPAPERS FOR SALE. 40 cents per hundred. apply to fraternal From FACTORY to CONSUMER. ) Sli3 i buvsthis(exact) ' e er iuuiIi- ; jer dozen, f !.:. Our new 112 putia catalogue containing Fur- i nun re. Drape ries, crockery, liubv OurriHireV hefiiircraiors. i Stoves, Lamps, ' Pictures. Mir- . rors. Bedding; etc., is yours for tbe I asliiup. Special suppli rrcnts just is sued are also tree. Write to-day. CAKPET CATALOGUE In litho (rraptied colors is also mailed f'eo. Write for it. if you wish samples, send 8c. stamp. Mat ting saranles also mailed for J-.i'. All I'xrnftawwMl free thin month hiiiI Irriieht Itaiu on &v pnrcuauM sua over. $7.45 buyg a mnde-to-your-meas-ure All-Wool Cheviot Suit, expresape prepaid to your Rt'itiim. Write for free cata logue and aampies. Address (exactly as below), JULS! TS & SON, 1 Dept. S09. BALTIMORE, MO. I vPi NOTICE. North Carolina Superior Court Halifax County. ( S. M. Gary, Clerk. W. E. Staton & wife Olivia and M. F. Pierce vs. J. W. Womble and wife Mary C. Womble. By virtue ot the order of the court in the above entitled special proceed ings, I will on the 29th day of July 1898, in Roanoke Rapids, N. C, eell for cash at public auction to the high est bidder, that tract of land of which 11. 15. Pierce, died seized and pos sessed, containing GO acres more or less, lying near Bowling N. C, on the North side of the public road leading from Weldon to Gaston adjoining the land of M. B. lvey, Mrs. George Hales' land and others. Claupk Kitciiiv. Commissioner. Sale of Land. By virtue ot a Decree of the Superior Court of Halifax county rendered the 13th day of June, 1898, in the case of G. Daniel, administrator of Isotn Banks against Sterling Banks and others, 1 shall sell to the highest bidder it the Court-house door in Halifax on Monday, the first day of August, 189S. That tract of land situated in Halifax county on which Isom Banks resided at the time of tiis death, containing sixty-two acres, adjoining the lands ot 31. E. Newsom, James Glasgow, S. Johnson and others, said land is sold for assets to pay debts. Terms of sale one half cash, the balance in six months bond with good security required of the purchaser for the deferred payment, and title to the land retained till all the purchase money is paid. Halifax, N. C. S. G. DANIEL, June 30, 1898. Administrator. G304t. Fire and Life insurance. The very best fire companies repre sented. The Aetna Life so well known n this community is still hero giving the bsst policy of the day and has in creased its dividends annnatly without interruption for the past 25 years. It has paid out over $70,000 in this com munity during the past 25 years. There is none better or more reliable company than the Old .Etna. . J. II. LAWRENCE, Agf, Office over W. L. Ifarrell & Co. 's store. 2 3-ly." 60 Day Sale. We have several thousand dollar worth of goods to close out in the next GO days at and below cost. Come quick. If you can't come, send orders oy mail. Remember we pay the freight on all goods bought at one time amounting to $5.00 and over. We are shipping goods to almost every shipping point in this part of the State. Spring calicos .J, .Jj'c. Curtain pole wood fixtures 22c. Heavy Rugs 1x2 yds 8Sc. Lace curtains 1x3$ yds tDc per pair. Hassocks 33c. Window ebadrn on spring rollers 12,' 8c with frina5 20, 22J. With fringe and fancy paint ings and gilt work 25, 30c. Lace cur tain scrim yd wide 4c. Men s very wide brim straw hats 5c. Boys' fancy straw hats 5c. Ladies' ready marie wasted skirts black and colors 98c, $1.25. White dress goods i, 4, Oc. Unbleached sheeting 3, 4c. Several hundred yards fancy curtain dropery yd wide 4, fc. 1,450 yards spring dress goods, over 200 stylo. 8, 5, 7, 9c. Art squares and druggets zxz yus $1.63 each. Wehavejuht received a large consignment of Japanese cotton warp mattings. Regular price 22c. We offer this lot for 8, 10, 121, Toe. Heavy China mattings G, 8, 12c. We are having a big rush on mattings, and this consignment will not last long at these cut prices. All orders by mail promptly filled. H. C. SPIERS & DAVIS, April 20, 1898. . Weldon, N. C. Pretlv Wall Papers! We can supply you with any and all kinds of Wall Paier in the latest and prettiest designs, at astonishingly low prices. Jt is direct from the great man ufacturers, United States Wall Paier Co., of Cincinnati, and is the latest and njfv-t rp-to-d:ite paper on the market. E. T. Wk''TA" Co
The Commonwealth (Scotland Neck, N.C.)
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