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A273RTISING TS TO BUSINESS -WHAT STEAM IS TO- Machinery, TilAT CREiT PeOPELLISG POWER. THAT CLASS OF READERS THAT YOU Wish your Adyertisement TO EEACH is the class who read this paper. Mothers! THE discom forts and dangers of child-birtlican be almost en-j tirely avoided.' WineofCardui- relieve9 ex pectant moth ers. It gives tone to the au ital organs, and tints them in condition to do their work perfectly. That makes preg nancy less painful, shortens labor and hastens recovery after child-birth, it helps a woman bear strong healthy children. has also brought happiness to thousands of homes barren for J rears. A fe7 doses often brings oy to loving hearts that long for a darling baby. No woman ekould neglect to try it for this trouble. It cures nine cases out of ten. Atl druggists sell Wine of Cardui. $1.00 per bottle. For advice In cases requfrlng special directions, address, giving- symptoms, the " Ladies' Advisory Department, the Chattanooga Medicine Co.. Chatta nooga, Tenn. Mrs. LOUISA HALS, of Jefferson, Ga., says "When I first took Wlna of Cardui wa had ben married thre9 years, but could not have any children. Nina months lte. . h?4a lino girl babj." PROFESSIONAL. A. C. LTVEKMON, Oi'nc"-Over the Staton Building. Qi'loe hours from 9 to 1 o'clock; 2 to 1 o'clock, p- rr. SCOTLAND NECK. N. C. A. DUNN, 7 T 0 R X E Y-A T-L A IV. S'cotlaxi Neck, X. C. dees wherever hid services are 1 vac'. V'. IT. Day. David Bell. DAY & BELL, ,1 TTORZF. YS A T LA W, ENFIELD, N. C. Practice in all the Courts of Hali fax and adjoining counties and in the Supreme and Federal Courts. Claims collected in all parts of the State. p,P.. V. J. YATiB Surgeon. Dentist, EsriELD, N. C. O.'Iiee over Harrison's Druf Store. , D V,r AH D L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. JW Money Loaned on Farm Lands. HOWARD ALSTON, Attorney-at-Law, LITTLETON, N.VC. fic. SI. FURGERSON. m ATTORNEY-at-LAW, HALIFAX, N. C. ttOly pAUL V. MATTHEWS, A TTORNE Y-A T-L A W. fCollection of Claims a specialty, .ly ENFIELD, N. C. R. C. A. WHITEHEAD, y DENTAL Surgeon, Takboeo, N. C. Scotland Heck Telephone EselutDge We are prepared to turnish telephone service to the public and solicit patron RATES FOR SERVICE. Business Phones, $2.00 per month Residence Phones, 1.50 " ' Two oi either for 3.00 " " It is our purpose to give good aervice, and to this end we ask all subscribers to report promptly any " irregularities in tne service. COur signed contracts prohibit the use of phones except by frabecribere, and we request that this rule be rigidly nil! entorced. if TTVTi H K LA lAjy E. E. MILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XIV. New Series:Vol. 3. THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS. Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. How little can I do and hold my place? is the question which too many employes allow to hamper their ser vices to their employer. It ought to be, How can I make my time fully worth what I get for my services and make myself useful and indispensable otherwise? One can not be too faithful to his employer, and the most faithful employe now will make the most suc: cesslul employer in the years to come. The name "Schley" is not in very great favor in Spain. A cablegram from London recently said : "An American lady, said to be Com modore Schley's daughtar, has arrived here, but neither the Queen Regent or or any responsible personage will re ceive her. She will probably be re quested to depart at the earliest possi ble date." The Washington Post thought it was Miss JessicSchley, daughter of Mrs. Charles Schley, of Milwaukee, a cousin ot Commodore Schley. Some enterprising chaps of Balti more's juvenile population whiled away a part of their Saturday leisure last week in breaking down the fence of the dog pound of that city and turn ed loose three hundred and fifty dogs. The only motive which could be guess ed at by the action of the boys was that they might have an opportunity to "chunk" the fleeing dogs to hear them "holler." "Boys will be boys the world oyer" is an old adage ; but what about the revision of the ad ago by a certain man who had had mufch to do with boys? He put it, "Boys will be boys, but some boys must be rascals." There is a pillar of stone, called the monolith, in the village of Meriden, about live miles from the city of Coventry, England, which is said to mark the centre of that country. We have no data at hand stating when the piilar was set up, but it is a matter of record that such pillar stands ia the village named ; and however doubting critics may question the ac curateness of its position as the centre of England, it goe1? without saying that those who took the pains and labor to set up such a column must have been thoroughly conyinced ol the correct ness of the spot. Can't some student of geography lo cate the exact centre of the United States? Perhaps some one has already done,so, but we have not known it. He Who will do it will have his name handed down as a pioneer and an enter priser that will interest millions. What is a "State detective?" The Raleigh correspondent to the Wilming ton Star wrote a few days ago that D B. Shaw has been commissioned State detective, that he will have two assist ants in each county and the organiza tion will be complete. The bit of news was such as to excite one's interest, or to say the least, one's curiosity ; but it did not state who commissioned the detective or what are to be his duties. Is it another turn in the wheel of the present administration to accommodate place hunters? The Commonwealth has more than once advocated the keeping of blood ku,nii! in Aanh fiountv as a means of quickly and surely apprebendin a mnnlarnrs. barn-burners, and fUgUvD the like ; but we bad never thought o the detective system as a State institu tion. Perhaps we misunderstand it all. We should like to have some ex- .!.nofinn atatiner who commissioned j.rtfna wiw. are their duties what their pay and who pays them For Orer Fifty Years Mrs. WiNSLOw'g Soothing Syrup has ,,nA for nver nilV yeaio uj lions of mothers for their children while . ...WK nnrfnet BUCC68S. It "T-ii i onrA.wind colic, and is will - thA nnor little sunerer Orll TwTntVe cents; a Sott S Cure and ask forMrs Win dow's Soothing Syrup, other kind. " onrl . tAlta no . 4-21-ly , Co SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, BUIE'S GREEK At last I have been to Buie's Creek, in Harnett county. For a long time I had wanted to go. I had beard of the work being done there by Bro. Camp bell and his associates. Everybody who has kept at all in touch with the move ment of educational mat teu in North Carolina, within recent years, has heard of this truly wonderful school. Wonderful on many accounts. For a school to accomplish what this one has with the seeming disadvantages under which it has had to labor is little short of miraculous. It shows clearly that the "man at the helm" is one of those men so much needed to-day a man who instead of "waiting for something io turn up," turns up something. Bro. Campbell brings things to pass. Start ing eleven years ago with no capital to back it except brains and energy, the growth oi the school has been steady year by year. From a sudent body numbering 16 gathered from the homes immediately around the small public school building in January, 1887, with a faculty ol two, the school has grown year by year, adding to its equipment, its buildings, its faculty and students, until to-day it stands before the public as the largest private school in North Carolina east or south of Raleigh and still it grows. The boys and girls are those from far and near, and the faculty already numbering eight has just had its number increased by the addition of Prof. J. V. Devenny, a Master of Arts, of Wake Forest College ; Trinity College has its representative in the faculty m the person of Prof. P. D Woodall, who has been connected with the school for one and one-half years. I reached Dunn, a town on the main Line of the A. C. L. Railroad, m the afternoon about four. I took supper at Buie's Croek, twelve miles west of Dunn. A long way off the Railroad, you say ; too inaccessible. If you could only see that crowd of young men, who have found the way there from Bruns wick county, on the south to Rocking ham, on the north and from Washing ton on the east to Burke on the west, together with a host of others from sixteen other counties in North Caro- lna you would be convinced that they could at least find Buie's Creek if they tried. But it is not so far out of the -. If you will oly drop Bro. Camp bell a note stating what day, you will reach Dunn, you may leave Wilming ton, Florence, S. C, More'head City, Plymouth, Charlotte, Asheville, (Nor folk, Va., or Washington, D. C, in the morning and easily take supper at Buie's Creek, and haye some hours of spare time on your hands before supper. I spent a month with Bro. Camp- 1 1 bell. I became , a scnooi Doy again after ten years of absence from school life in an academy. I mingled with the teachers and the students. I studi ed carefully the spirit otthe institution and its workings. I studied with the boys in the school room fifteen days, and I studied the boysnot to men tion the girls. And a splendid lot of young men they are, too. They haye come from homes scattered far and wide, 254 having been enrolled this vear. They come from homes in Blact en. Brunswick, Burke, Chatham, Cum berland, Harnett, Johnston, Moore, Nash, New Hanovwr, Pender, Pitt, Richmond, Roberson, Rockingham, Sampson, Wake, Washington, Wayne and Darlington, S. C. More than a hundred have corce from these coun ties, and are boarding at Buie's Creek, jln every county mentioned are good schools, and yet these boys are at Buie's riMAlr. far from a railroad, no town ir.onr than five miles. They are there from city, town and country WUming HON "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. ACADEMY AND COfflMERICAL SCHOOL PROM THE NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST OF MARCH 30TH, 1893. ton, Raleigh, Goldsboro, Morganton, Plymouth and a number of other towns having representatives, from homes oi various degrees oi wealth and influence and all shades of religious belief. When I saw this host of young men and young ladies, I asked . myself the question, '-'Why are they here?" And I determined to find out, and I believe that I have. Every school that be comes a fixture has certain character istics which tend to reproduce them selves year by year as one generation after another takes its place In the school. In casting about for some reasons why so many young men choose this school, with its seeming disad vantages as to location, and why so many parents should select it as the school for their children, T sought to find out what these characteristics were. The parent knows, when sending 'a child to Buie's Creek, that the body will not be liable to injury. The school is in the country, a beautiful, rolling, hilly country, with green fields, pine trees, flowing streams. The drain age is perfect, the water is pure. The athletic ground on the south side of the school buildings is the arena for all manly athletic sports. This is the neadquarters of the Military Company and the Athletic Association. The brutal Rugby game of football has not yet made its appearance, and may the day be far away in the twentieth cen tury when it shall come as a menace to "life and limb." With an abund ance of exercise, fresh air, pure water and wholesome food, one could hardly be sick if he wanted to be. It is hard on physicians. I saw one once during my stay, but he was twelve miles away and so far as I could find out he did not know the road to Buie's Creek bunra'physician should ever be need ed it is easy to secure one, there being a telephone in the library and one in the residence of Bro. Campbell connect ing with Dunn on one side and Lilling- ton, five miles distant, on the other. And of course the mental side ol the students is looked after. A tree is known by its fruit, and no better in dication of the good work being done by Bro. Campbell and his associates can be had than to compare his students before and alter taking" a course of instruction at Buie's Creek. Thelife and work of the ..Principal Rev. J. A. Campbell, is a constant re minder of what a man can do by hav ing an aim in life and then working to ward it early and late. The buildings render it possible to do eood. thorough work. They have s plenty of room for all of the work that is being done. Step inside the main school-room. It is handsomely finish ed in native pine, oiled ; a rostrum ex tends across the front ; black-boards, I maps, charts, new patent desks and other appliances are seen at a glance. We will go in the room on the south of the mam school-room. This is the primary room. The lady who has charge in Xhis department has been connected with the school since its be ginning. It used to be Rev. J. A. Campbell, Principal ; Miss Cornelia Pearson, Assistant. Miss Pearson is still Assistant, and a very valuable one, but now it is written."Mrs. J. A. Camp bell" which tells its own story. Iiet us enter the room on the north side. This is the library ; you see about a thouand volumes already. Additions are constantly being made. The gov ernment has made it the depository tor government publications for the Third Congressional District. Pass on and we enter the sanctum ol Prof. Woodall. Educated at Trinity College, Witt A T .Tff -- :l : : X- 1 Business. a thorough gentleman,quiet, unassum ing, he knows what to teach and how to teach it. This next room ia the old original school room in which the school first started. ' Prof. Devenny holds forth in this room. You would never know Prof. Devenny 's worth unless you knew him well. He has a thorough education, having taken the degree of A. M. at WaVe Forest in 1 895. -Added to his mental equipment he brings to Buie's Creek practical experience in the schoolroom. We pass into the Business Depart ment where presides that "all round" genius and successful teacher, Prof. Judson Peele. Do you wish to learn book-keeping, stenography, telegraphy, typewriting, commercial law, commer cial arithmetic, plain or ornamental penmanship? There is not a better place in the State. Prof. Peele brings to his work not only a thorough theo retical knowledge of the branches taught but he has been a book-keeper, stenographer and typewriter and has had practical experience as a telegraph operator. I Btudied book-keeping un der Prof. Peele. I was with him fifteen days. I had been to school to ten dif ferent schools, from the "old field school" to the college. I had been a merchant, 1 had for nine months been businsss manager of a business in the city of Raleigh, doing thousands of dollars worth of business every year, but (after careful rellection I say it) I learned more about book-keeping and business methods in fifteen days under Prof. Peele than I learned in all of my life put together besides. Music comes in for a share of atten tion. The music room was "foTbidden ground" to the boys and I was one of them. If Miss Barbae teaches the piano like she plays it I am sure that the Music Department can hold ltf own with the Business Department. The parent who sends a child to Buie's Creek may rest assured that the religious and moral side ot his nature is not overlooked. .There are no loafing places, no places of public amusement. The danger from vicious associates is reduced tc the minimum. .There are as few tempt ations to vice as possible. Not a bar room in the county. The students board in the homes of the people or eat in small clubs. 'The school is open ed every morning with a service of song and prayer. The students have -the benefit of a Sunday-school, a week ly prayer meeting and preaching monthly in the church a hundred yards in front of tho Academy. The school is not sectarian. Various denominations are represented both in i the faculty and among the students, bat it ig distincf ively Christian. The Christian influence pervading the en tire school, the gentlemanly and lady like bearing of the students, the spirit of work, are powerful factors in maK- ing discipline almost a thing unknown in the institution. Many parents cannot educate their children because it costs so mucn. it is positively cheaper to go to school at Buie's Creek than it is to stay at home at least at a great many homes that I know.- Just think of it. A young man can go to Buie's Creek Academy, take a course for ten months, taking the laneuases and higher mathematics and the cost of tuition, board, lodging, lights, fuel and washing need not be over $70. Wonderful isn't it? it you want to know how it's done drop a note to Rev. J. A. Campbell, Poe's, N. C. Buie's Creek Academy is doing wonderful work a work which widens and deepens as the years ago by, work, the full results of which will be L known onlv in eternitv. I had beard of its work from many witnesses ; went to see for myself and found that the story had only been half told. B. W. Spilman. Raleigh Hi C, MarcH 25,' 1898. TX SUBSCRIPTION PRICE SlToT Q 4 189 NO. 32 Smn YUR ADVERTISEMENT W NOW. , j WXStrnck Billie Patterson? - : New York Sun. The identity dfkjbe struck Billie Patterso of supreme indifference would in all seriousness of that much mooted tion. J. R. T. There is a number of suggested answers to this famous question. Here are some of them: William Patterson, a merchant of Baltimore, had property in Georgia ; visiliug it once, he became involved in a street row. In the midst ot the affray some one struck him on the head, knocking his hat over bis eyes. Patterson could not find his assailant afterward, and,though he went about asking "Who struckT0 iiillie .Patterson?" his large size pre vented any one confessing to the act. In bis will Patterson left a legacy to any one who would name the man. A copy of the will is said to be on file in the Ordinary's office at Carnesville, Franklin county, Ga. Within a few years a Mrs. Conely, of Athol, N. Y., has said that her father, George Til ler ton, struck the blow and damaged his thumb in so doing. He was afraid to confess it, because of Patter son's size. No date goes with this story. But it is said that seventy years ago there was a song in England in which Billie Prtterson appeared, and that really he lived in the last century. Another story is that the man in question was Alban Smith Payne, M. D., formerly of the South ern Medical College, Atlanta, Ga. He claimed the honor in these words: "It was in 1852 ; I struck Billie Pat terson because I saw old Usher Par sons, the surgeon to commodore Perry at Lake Erie, lying on his back in the road unable to rise, his white hair streaming in the air, ruthlessly knock ed there by a brutal bully, and I said : "By the eternal, I will hit you, my man, and I will hit you hard !" and I did." Another story .makes Billy the boss (probably foreman) of an old-time New York fire company, struck in an election row. When an indignant friend asked the now famous question, a hnce man announced that he had 3truc!c the blow, and the friend ex claimed, "O you struck him ! Well good for you I Let's have a drink." here are several variations to this tory. Still anotner version : JBiny iiterson was a medical student who died of fright during his initiation in to a society about fifty years ago and the initiators were tried for his death. On the trial it was proved that no one had struck him ; but the tudents retained the expression. You can take your choice ; the question is still unswered. The Chief Burgess ot Milesburg, Pa. says Dewitt's Little Early Risers are the best pills he ever used in his family during forty years of house keeping. They cure constipation, sick headache and stomach and liver troubles. Small n size but great in reeults. E. T. Whitehead & Co. Admiral Sampson Began Well. Selected. An old army officer who has been a shipmate of Acting Rear Admiral Samp son many years tells this story of him : "I have never doubted Sampson's courage since the first cruise I made with him. We were wardroom officers together. The first night abord ship, when the hour arrived for 'piping down' and turning in there were several officers sitting around the wardroom table in dulging in some innocent merriment I was taught to say my prayers before to bed at night, but I confess I lacked the courage to kneel down in the pres ence of my shipmates and pray. It was warm weather and our stateroom doors opened into the wardroom. Then it was that Sampson display ed the moral courage that forever after- impressed me. He is a God-fearing man, and he always says his prayers before turning in. When he was ready to turn in he knelt down by his berth and prayed. A stillness came over the wardroom immediately, and I conclud ed that if Sampson had the courage to snv his wavers in the presence of his j r - shipmates I could dolikewise, so I nev er hesitated since before turning in. "Only those who have sailed the seas In a war ship can appreciate how much moral courage isjrequired to kneel down in the presence of a lot of roistering shipmates arid ask God'a blessing. - " Sampson never makes his religious devotions offensive to his shipmates, but he reserves the right to be master rf his own conscience as he is master of the situation at Santiago to-day." We have used Chamberlain's Cough Rftmedv in our home for many years and bear cheerful testimony to its value as a medicine which should be in every family. In coughs ana colas we nave found it to be efficacious and in croup and whopping cough in children we dm it indispensable H. P. Rioter, 41 -27 Fairfax ave.. St. Louis, Mo. For sale by E. T. Whitehead &Co. I IA r- ...... . SI will r n bl if n w ( b.iibmii aw w mm m m m . j INK is a mntfpr I fl Jl It I "III 1 but i X OlMmffi &lirJO V UflWGfigJ buj8this(xaet) (Q I - jjMMSW I P8 catlqueV I V? n wtslnlnjl Fur- ir JlitiiL rien. Crockery. lUTrxtS itub"' Carrlf. 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Heavy Rugs 1x2 yds 88c. Laco curtains lx3.V yds 75n per pair. Hassocks 33c. Window shades on spring rollers 12A, 18c with fringe 20, 22i. Witn fringe and fancy paint ings and gilt work 25, 30c. Lace cur tain scrim yd wide 4c. Men's very wide brim straw hats &c. Boys' fancy straw hats 5c. Ladies' ready-made wasted skirts black and colors 08c, $1.25. White dress goods 3, 4, Gc. Unbleached sheeting 3, 1c. Several hundred yards fancy curtain d ropery yd wide 4i, fid. 1,450 yards spring dreas goods, over -Ol) styles 3, 5, 7, !)c. Art squares iind druggets 2x2 yds $1.G3 each. Wo have just received u large consignment of Japanese cotton warp mattings. Regular price 22ic. We offer this lot for 8, 10, 12J. 15c. Heavy China matting G, 8, 12c. Wo are having a big rush on matlinvs, tnid this consignment will not last, long at these cut prices. All ordcis by mail promptly tilled. ii.C. SPIERS & DAVIS, A p: ii 20, 1 S;!8. Wkloox, N. O. 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