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a if i i i" J . mil H ADVERTISING 4ia to BUSINESS -WHAT STEAM IS TO 1- Machinery, That Great Propelling Power. THAT CLASS OF READERS THAT YOU Wish your Advertisement TO REACH is the class who read this paper. upjmp bbbvi s? all uohen J!NE-TENTH3 CI ail the pain and sicknesf rom which women suffer Is caused by weakness or derangement in the cr-ans of( menstruation. Nearly always when a woman is not well these organs are affected. But when they are strong and healthy a woman is very seldom sick. nei Is nature's provision for the regu-' lation of the menstrual fi Jon. It cures all ' ' female troubles. " It is equally effective for the girl in her teens, the young wife with do mestic and maternal cares, and the woman approaching the period known as the ' Change of Life." They all need it. They are all benefitted by it. o For achrtee In cases requiring special direct!" address, pivine symptoms, ths " I .c-s' Advisory Department, The Cr.anooga Medicine Co., Chatta nocga, unn. THOS. J. COOPER, Tupelo, Miss., taysi My sister suffered from vary Irrenar and painful menstruation and doctors could not relieve her. Wine of Cartful entirely cured her and a! so helped my cottar through the Change of Life." S3 PROFESSIONAL. nK. - G. LIVEEMON, 0FFic;:-Over the Staton Building. Omco Invars from 9 to 1 o'clock r 2 to t o'clock, p. m. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. ATT 01: ,V E Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, N C. Practices wherever his services are required. W. H. Day. David Bell. DAY & BELL, A TTORXE YS AT LAW, ENFIELD, X. C. Practice in all the Courts of Hali fax and adjoining countieg and in the Supreme and Federal Courts. Claims collected in all Darts of the State. 1) R. W. J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, Enfield, N. C. 0:Sce over Harrison's Druf Store. E DWARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. llonry Loaned on Farm Lands. HOWARD ALSTON, Attorney-at-Law, LITTLETON, N. Cf. If M. FURGERSON. ATTORNEY-at-LAW, HALIFAX, N. C. 9 9 ly P AIL V. MATTHEWS, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. "Collection of Claims a specialty, ly ENFIELD, N. C. I) R. C A. WHITEHEAD, DENTAL Surgeon, Tarboro, N. C. 'e are prepared to furnish telephone a!LVIce t0 the Public and solicit patron- KATES FOR SERVICE. Business Phones, $2.00 per month. Residence Phones, 1.50 .J? ol either for 3.00 " " Ti - IS OUr ntirnrkao in on va trnrA JArvlCft. and to this end we ask all subscribers to 'Port promptly any irregularities in le service. thur signed contracts prohibit "e use of phones except by snbscribers, si aw - we request that this rule be rtguuy r u Ti H M LA LS 1 E. E. HILL.IARD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XIV. flew Scries Vol. 3. THE EDITOR'S LEISUBE HOUBS. Points and Paragraphs .of Things Present. Past and Future. Some one remarks that one of there suits of the war with Spain will be cheap er coffee. The best coffee in the world comes, it is said, from Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines. This being true the quickening of American enterprise at those points will bring results to the coffee consumers In ' this country which have not yet been calculated. From conversation with ministers and others who have been engaged and interested In special meetings, this seems a bad season for religious revivals. We heard one minister of the gospel say recently that the people whom he has seen seem callous at - heart and cold and indifferent to the claims of the gospel. Perhaps it comes from the extremely high political pressure in North Car olina now. But the faithful ministers will work on casting their bread upon the waters hoping to see it "alter many days." They are amongst our truest patriots. Col. J. W. St. Claire, of Georgia, who is here in Scotland Neck to conduct a school of the single branch system, says that he taught school in Onslow county for Cy Thompson's father just after the war. He says Cy was a bright boy and gave promise of better things than he seems to be trying to bring to pass now, namely, turn North Carolina over to Republican rule for good and all. No doubt Cy had good training but be is like the boy's goat, he has got in bad company. Those who loved him then might, like the boy to his goat, say "Billie, I love you, but I must part from you for the company you keep." The Commonwealth has from time to time called the attention of its farm er readers to what we consider an im portant matter, namely, the raising of wheat. Perhaps the farmers of this community spend as much money for flour as for any one article of food. We 'eel sure that the land owners spend more money lor Hour than lor any other single article of supplies. It seems to us that it would be wise on the part of our farmers to save to them selves this item of expense by raising wheat at home. They say that there are no good flouring mills in this com munity. That may be true, but with a quantity of wheat raised sufficient to justify theexpense of putting in mills, the mills would come. Let our larm- ers try it just three years. The negro politicians loudly pro claim that there is no danger of negro domination in North Carolina, and as loudly declare that the colored race does not desire social equality. It was quite different a few days ago at Rochester, N. Y., where there were monumental and commemorative ex- ercises in nonor oi J?rea oubijuw. John C. Dancy, an Edgecombe county m "W- 9 TV 1 negro, now Collector of Customs at Wilmington, IJ. C, delivered the ad dress, reviewing the iife of Douglass. The press dispatches sent out said : Several of the speakers expressed the, hope that the time would come when there "would be actual equality be tween the races." No, no; Dancy wouldn't say that down here it is not reported that he said it at Rochester neither is it re ported tnat he disagreed with tho sen timent, s White supremacy is the very least that any self-respecting white man ought to be satisfied with, or that any reasonable colored man ought to ex pect. ' For Orer Fifty Years Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has : j t fiitv vears bv mil- KE 'or Veifchildren white uons w. rfect success. It been useu iur -7A- sthes the child," softens the gams Xys all pain, cures wind colic, and is Se test remedy for Diarrhoea. It w i U XTthS poo? little sufferer immedi S,lv Soldby Druggists in every part ateiy. D rp,5,tr.fiv centra Af thA worm. ' - - . .u ; readaskfor-MrsVViH bottle. . .it " mn uwe imts i-21-lv :COMMOT SCOTLAND THE SAFEGUARD OF raiNCIPLES AND HABITS OF YOUTH THE KEY TO AFTER LIFE. r KJV. JAMES G. K. MCCXURE, D. D.. IN SATURDAY EVENING POST. I. m ner gymnasium Yale has a trophy-room. Many a graduate feels his blood stirred as he enters it. The em blems of contest, flag and cup, oar and all, arouse the memory. Scenes of the past become vivid the surging crowd the excited faces, the shouts of yictory ttner aays are lived over again, and there is joy and inspiration in recalling them. The setting up of trophies is a custom as old as history ; all ancient peoples did it. The Greeks put shields and helmets on a tree of the battle-ground ii it were a land victory, and beaks of conquered vessels on the nearest coast it it were a sea yictory. The Romans did differently. They carried their trophies to some prominent spot in Rome itself. Still differently did the Egyptians and the Israelites, who de posited their trophies in their temples H outh-time trophies ! It is Southey who says : "Live as long as you may, the first twenty years form the greater part of your life. Tney appear so when .they are passing ; they seem to have been so when we look back to them ; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years which sue ceed them." Victories won then mean more than victories won later. Never is a man so conscious of the sweets of triumph and so elated by the joys of success as in his earlier years. The shout that greeted David when he con quered Goliath sank deeper into his heart and memory than any shout he ever heard afterward. To succeed in the contests of youth, whatever their sphere, social, literary, political, ath letic, is to have an experience of pleas ure that is scarcely surpassed in all one's life. Besides, youth is like the Nile's spring-time, when the fullness of the river gives opportunity tostoro away for the coming drought. In youth virtues and experiences can be laid up for the crises of life. Oniy as hope and courage are accumulated then are they in reserve force for sudden dif ficulty and trail. The soldier who in camp does not learn to handle his rifle will be helpless in the confusion of battle. Insurance cannot be obtained when flames are bursting out ' of the house. He who does not strive for victories in youth stands small show of victories in manhood. For time is a current bearing the yesterdays into to-days and the to-days into to-morrows. The present is the future, carrying it in itself as the seed carries the flower. A to-morrow unconnected with to-day is unthinkable. The flower that is to be must have somewhere a seed that now is. Youth is the seed of man hood, and what we lay up, or fail to lay up, in youth determines what we shall have, or shall fail to haye, when we reach the period of manhood. What, then, are these trophies to be won in youth for manhood's safeguard ? Physical strength is one. Without it no mature man can do his best work. Youth, with its warm blood, vigorous vitality, strong appetite, restful eleep, may be a very magazine oi power. The wear and tear of physical strain have not come yet. While they tarry, a young man may fortify himself for them by accumulations of health which later will be a storehouse of re source. - Such being the case, it is no slight matter to hurt one's physical yigor, either by neglect or abuse. Many men have broken down -within five years of leaving college, and become impaired, if not useless, because they did not treasure their health while there. Scores have fallen by the wayside later because of the recklessness with which they spent their buoyant energy. Sick ness and death are indeed inevitable to every one but there is no necessity for soliciting their approach. Death walks as near the young man s back as the old man's face, but why urge him to overtake us? That law of God that makes physical decay the penalty of physical wrong is unbreakable, dis sipation of vital energy inevitably ends in physical, deterioration. A young man cannot let any bodily passion run away with him and expect to be safe, any more than a child, letting a spirit; A stubborn cough or tickling In the throat yields to One Minute Cough Cure. Harmless in effect, touches the rieht spot, reliable and just what ; is wfntod: It acts at once.-E.T. White head & Co. "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, ed norse take the bit in his teeth to run as he will, can expect to escape peril. A man's body is God's temple, and God never allows sacrilege to his temple to go unchallenged and uncon demned. But if with earnest desire to conserve its sacredness a man stores away all possible physical vigor, he will find, in after-years, as David found with Goliath's sword, that the purity and self-control of his youth stand him in good stead in the hours of exposure Intellectual discipline is another trophy to be won in youth. Let the distinction between discipline and knowledge be kept clear. What an educated youth needs is capability to apply his mind investigating, com paring, combining, drawing deductions and then to put the full force of that mind into the work, undertaken. Bet ter than uniyersal knowledge is power to use limited knowledge. Too much knowledge there cannot be, but knowl edge without the ability to use it is an impediment, not a help. He who fails in youth to learn how to ponder facts and arrange them is at a great disad vantage when caught in the hurry and competition of after-years. Neither merchants nor engineers, generals nor scholars, can do their work successfully with minds undisciplined. As much solid, penetrating thought may be re quired in railroading as in teaching, in banking as in editing. The. success of a college youth in tho industry to which he gives himself will depend largely on his power to think. If he acquires that, then he may go wither soever Proyidence calls him and he need not be afraid to attempt his work. The man who can use alight two facts will always be stronger than the man who has a hundred facts, but who can not use them. And now for moral trophies. One such is habits. In youth we form them, and then in age they form us. At first they are our method of life, and at last they are our iife itself. Once they involved conscious effort, later they seem automatic. Care entered into the first writing of our signature, but now we write that signature al most a3 unconcernedly as a machine prints. Habits of good can thus become the protection of our maturity. They are the chief dependence on which a man must rely for his own right conduct when circumstances call for such speedy action that he cannot stop to analyze the motives that guide him. If temp tation to do evil suddenly assails one habituated to the good, the . chances are that he will continue on in the habit of the good. For there are hun dreds of good things which the human heart may do so regularly and persist ently that they become a yery potent part of the heart, shaping its opinions, controlling its desires, and deciding its affections. One such special habit is that of reverence. iteverence is treating worthy things worthily, and the most worthy things the most worthily. The command "not to take the name of the' Lord in yam" teaches that God, the best, should be treated as the best. It is an injunction to have good judg ment, to estimate persons and things aright, and to act toward the noblest and greatest as though they were the noblest and greatest.' Such a habit of discriminating thought and conduct, once acquired, is a ceaseless, blessing. t secures a just valuation of all ob jects to be considered, and it prevents men from looking upon ten as though it were fifty, on the molehill as though it were a mountain, on the transient as though it were permanent, on eyil as though it were good. Happy the man wh6"earlv acquires reverence for purity. io consiaer spotlessness as insignificant is to have the whole judgment demoralized. Im pure thought, once become a fixed ele ment of life, will color all vision and lower all ideals ; will make untrust worthy all our opinions of society and individuals. But reverence for purity, once become a habit, will so permeate our nature that the low and lewd will have no hold unon our thought, and4 we shall wonder that any person can spoil his jokes with them or, still worse, soil his own mind with them. Happy, too, the man who early ac quires reverence for himself. When a young man adopts the habit of regard ing every one oi nis appetites as a divine gift,' bestowed for holy purposes, and will not. allow them to be diverted to wrong uses, it is an absolute impos sibility that he ever became a drunk ard or any kind of a profligate. What ever is hurtful to himself will be es teemed base by him simply because it is hurtfuK-v He will acquire a self- When you call for DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salye the great pile cure, don't accept anything else. Don't be talked into accepting a substitute, for piles, for sores, for burns. E, T. Whitehead &Co. . JT : " T IF YHIi IRCfjtKTIFR WEALTH mastery that will giye him a victor s sense of power. He will be too high- souled to mind low and dishonorable things. They may throng about him, but they cannot appeal to him. This matter of reverence ; what safeguard it is when it" is reverence for God and for what manifests God ! Certainly no one may expect youth to estimate all objects as manhood does, x outn is not asKea to be as sedate as age. Its very nature is sprightly. But if youth, whatever its sprightliness, wm continually hold ltselt to a rever ential use of God's name, of God's house, of God's worship, of God's Bible, yes, and of every fact that in nature, in the soul, and In history reveals God, youth will have laid up a condition oi mind that will be its salvation when doubt contemptuously asks, "What is truth ?" For if there is reverence for the real and an earnest purpose to exalt highest the best things of life, youth has a panoply that all the hosts of mental and moral confusion cannot pierce. But if there is no such rever encB ianure is sure, unce i saw mv -II T own class-mate, urged to a stronger, better life, throw himself on a sofa and with tears in his eyes hopelessly an swer : It is no use. I cannot doit. I have yielded to wrong so often that I have no will power left. I cannot re solve to do right." It was a pitiful scene ; a charming, popular young man looking for an instant beneath the sur face of things, and helplessly declaring himself the slave of a powerless will I And all because throughout his youth he had habitually yielded to the poorer elements of his nature and had allowed an impotent will to become his lasting characteristic. But there is one more sphere for youth-time trophies, and that a great one memories. All youih is filling itself up with memories, but no youth seems to have such happy opportunities for memo ries as college youth. . Memories' They are almost the largest, if not, in fact, the very largest, part of what a man keeps with him when long years have passed since he was a college youth. Why should those memories ever shame our hearts or Injure our power in manhood? What a mistake that youth made who for fifteen min utes, out of mere curiosity, read a de basing book, and then afterward was obliged to say, "That book has haunt ed me like an evil spectre ever since. I have asked God on my knees to oblit erate that book from my mind, but I believe that' I shall carry down the damage of those fifteen minutes to my grave !" Good memories are strength and comfort. Moses, still untried, heard God speak a message of recognition and duty to him from a burning bush. Later, grown to be an old man and burdened with anxieties, Moses recalled that experience at the bush and it re vived his faith and cheered his heart. It is in early years that God loves to put his voices into the soul, assuring us of his nearness, calling to us to be earnest, and arousing us to endeavors for our lellows. In more mature years we may be almost dazed by our disap pointments, by the complexity and strife of business, by the unkindness and even falseness of our supposed friends. Then the temptation comes to us to question the goodness of God, to question the reality of the soul and the worth of self-denying effort. In such an hour what a help it is to look back and say, "Once I was in college, and there God came very close to me with his blessings. I felt him in my heart. And though 1 knew less of the world than . now, still I bad, a tender conscience then : I was not embittered by life's rough usage ; my motives were simple and pure " That" very memory steadies the. soul like an an chorage. " Noble Christian character ! Who will lay np this trophy now? It is a trophy, never coming of itself, but won, and won through contest. Theie are five inclinations, Horace says, that must be fought in this contest. His words are: "Youth yields to every evil lmpressionis rough to reproof, is slow in attending to- his best Interest?, is presumptuous, and is swift to leave what before has pleased his fancy." These are the inclinations to be con quered.. They are conquered when youth (1) resists evil, (2) values re proof, (3) hastens to do right, (4) seeks divine guidance, and (5) cleaves to the good. The very impetuosity and pas sion of youth, turned from wrong uses into right uses, help us to win and de serve our trophies. W A N T E D SEVERAL TRUST worthv persons in this state to manase our business in their own and nearby counties. ' It is mainly office work conducted at home. Salary straight 900 a year and - expenses definite, bonafide, no more, no less salary. Monthly $75. References. En close self-addressed stamped envelope, Herbert E. Hess, Preet., Dept. M. Chicago. - (Dominion Co.) C i. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $l.c 1898. QQ STRANGEST OF ALL TOWERS. A Unique Monument for the Paris Ezposition. THE BUILDING WILL BEVOLVE. A Huge Structure, Covered With Electric Lights, Which Will Turn by Means of hydraulic Apparatus. Philadelphia Record. "One step lurther than than the Fer ris Wheel of Chicago and two further than our own Eiffel Tower." That is the promise made by the promoters of the "Revolving Tower" which is to le built for the Paris Exposition of 1900. This monument was designed by M. THE revolving tower. Ch. De Vic and will consist of a hecta- gon tower, 350 feet high, and divided into 25 stories. The tower will be covered on the outside with rich ornaments of nlckle plate, aluminium, glazed tiles and glass in very curious designs. It will be illuminated with 2,000 arc lights and 20,000 incandescent lamps in most varied colors, and so applied that the architectural lines will be plainly visible at night. Near the top there will be chimes comprising 64 tuned bells, and a pow erful organ worked by compressed air. The tower is to be crowned with a weathercock 15 feet high, and covered with about 1200 incandescent electric lamps. The entire building will revolve by means of hydraulic apparatus in such a manner that it will take one hour to rotate once around its axis. Thus the visitors of the tower can enjoy from one point an ever-changing panorama of the Exposition and of the city of Paris and its beautiful surroundings. The Cost of Drink. Rural New Yorker. . i The newspapers tell us of an Indiana grocer and saloon keeper who is said to have issued the following notice : "Notice is hereby given that, if you will come to my store 3 times a day during the next year, and purchase a drink of whiskey each time, paying 10 cents a drink, at the end of the year I will donate 5 barrels of my best flour, 100 pounds of granulated sugar, 100 pounds of rice, 10 pounds of coffee, 10 gallons ot syrup, 50 yards of calico, 3 pair of shoes, one $10 clock for your wife ; and then I will have $20 left to pay for the liquor you drank." Three JU cent drinks a day . means $109.50 a year. The grocer's rebate at the end of the year sounds quite gen erous, but there is a good deal of arith metic which jloes riot appear on the surface in this offer. Both . financial! v and morally, it seems likely that the purchaser of those 1,095 drinks at 10 cents each would have much the worst of the bargain. One Minute Cough Cure surprises people by its quick cures and children may take it in large quantities without the least, danger. It has won for itself the best reputation of any ' preparation used to-day for colds, croup, tickling in the throat or obstinate , coughs. E. T. T. Whitehead A Co. . i ii i vv niik,' ww i uii YOU WILL -ADVERTISE Yora Business. 0 J Send Your Advertisement in N-;w. Fran FACTORY ts CONSUMER. C) SI.39 buys thief exacts 1 llattitn Hooker. , the larsrest size ever made ; per i dozen, ci4.o0. ' Our new 112- ( IMtge catalogue containing Pur- i niture. Drape ries. Crockery, ( Baby Carriagoe, P.efrig-erators, i Ptovee, Latnjpe, rioturei. Iflr-, ror. Beddta. ote.. la joaw tor Che I Mklng. Special supplement last 1 , ' sued are also froo. Write to-day. CARPET CATALOGUE in litho graphed colors ii aldo muled free, i write for it. If vou wish Mm Dies. send So. stamp. Miitting-Hampleaalso i mailed lor tfc. Alt t urptuaewM free tbia month and freight , paid on 99 purcliaae and over. , $7.45 in buys a made-to-your-mea-VT ore Ail-Wool Cheviot Suit, A expreasage prepaid to your station- wJte for free oata fO iogue and samples. Address (exactly as below), CO Dept. 909. BALTIMORE, M0.. Q -:- Call at -:- M. C. COOKE'S for your Heavy and Fancy Groceries. Just received a Fresh lot of BAKER CHOCOLATE AND MACARONI. I keep on hand at all times FRESH COUNTRY liUTTER from Ed. Smith's Farm. I also keep (he BEE WASHING POWDERS and BEE LYE. Fire andijfejnsiirence. The very best fire companies repre sented. The Aetna Life so well known in this community is eti'.I rtwa giving the b9st policy of the dny pnd has in creased its dividends annually without interruption for the past 25 years. It has paid out over $70,000 in thin com munity during tho past 25 years. There is none better or more reliable coujj:ny than the Old JFAna. J. H. LAWRENCE, Agt, Office over W. L. Harrell & Co.'s store. 2-3-1 jr. JfflETOI p g&lL AND Business Institute. FOR BOTH 8 EXES. COLLEGE PREPARATORY COURSE, BUSINESS COURSE, and MUSIC. UNEXCELLED FOR LOCATION AND HEALTH. HONEST AND THROUGH INSTRUCTION. ICQ 2 J 9 (O (6 Q) Cheap Board. Address L W. BAGLEY, PRINCIPAL. v Littleton, N. C. 1 27-tf. Still Leads And Still Rapidly Selhi. The only machine 1o date fitted with ball-bearings, and therelore the lightest and e.iriept machine on the market. WHEELER AND WILSON Sold under a positive guarantee on easy terms , for the money. Also new machines exchanged for old machines of any make ; or for Hogs, Cattle or Sheep. 1 CT.LAWKESCE. ; - Scotland Neck, N. C. E. P. Gatlin, Salesman. ; , , 9 24 tf. I TJ . 3 V.. v. other kind.
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