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COOPER, Tupelo, Miss., tarn ' My sister suffered from very Irregular and painful menstruation and doctors could not relieve her. Wine el Cardul entirely cured her and also helped an mother through the Change of Life." rr , I ESS n a III fl 1 1 ?i II'IIB PROFESSIONAL. jjR. A. C. LIVEKMON, OrricE-Over the Staton Building. Office hours from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to I o'clock, p. m. SCOTLAND KECK, N. C. A. DUNN, ATTORNE Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices wherever his services are re mired. W. H. Day. David Bell. DAY & BELL, -1 TTORNE YSATLA 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. jJR. W.J.WARD, Surgeon Dentist, Enfield, N. C. Office over Harrison's Druf Store. DVARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. Money Loaned on Farm Lands. HOWARD "ALSTON, H Attorney-at-Law, LITTLETON, N. C. Ill o. M. FURGERSON. . ATTOENEY-at-LAW, HALIFAX, N. C. 9 9 1y P UL V. MATTHEWS A TTORNE Y-A T-LA W. figTOolIection of Claims a specialty, ly . ENFIELD, N. C. R. C. A. WHITEHEAD, . DENTAL Surgeon, nff Taeboeo, N. C We are nrenared to iurnish telephone service to the public and solicit patron age. RATES FOR SERVICE. Business Phones, $2.00 per month. Residence Phones, - 1.50 " Two ol either for 3.00 " Tt ia nnr nnrnoso to eiveeood service, and to this end we Task all subscribers to report promptly any irregularities in the service. -;. : . "- "... - " " ' Our signed contracts prohibit the use of phones except Dy suDscnuere, and we request that this rule be rigidly raw H M E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. : . SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $i.oo. VOL. XT7 . Itw Series Vol. 3. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1898. NO. 44 i . '-. i 1 1 1 1 1 - - - . " - - THE EDITOR'S LEISUEE EOUBS. Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. - And now comes the statement, well vouched for, that corn stalks are valua ble for making paper. The outside shell of the stalk, which has formerly been regarded as worthless for manu facturing, purposes, is so valuable as a material for making good grades of newspaper that the United States will yet lead in te manufacture ot paper. It will reduce the cost of paper to the newspaper world nearly half the present cost, it is said. This is at last a gleam of light that gives hope to many a forlorn country publisher, and perhaps some city pub lishers as well. It is all nonsense for any one to claim that there is no race prejudice in the North. At Virden, 111., some days ago a mining company attempted to displace their regular mining laborers with negroes from Alabama. The Virden miners resisted it, and a con flict ensued. The result was several miners were killed and others wounded. The negroes did not leave the cars. The train was compelled to move on. Governor Tanner is indignant with the mining company. He had warned them not to bring the negroes . there or he knew the temper of the miners. Such is the feeling in Illinois. The Commonwealth all the while ha3 been favorable to a curfew law. And after all it is not such a new idea. The Norfolk Virginian and Pilot re cently printed the following : Belore the war North Carolina had a curfew law for slaves and children. which worked well, and wasparticular- y a blessing for children in towns and cities, where judiciously enforced. There is no question that it can be in judiciously enlorced, as happened at times in North Carolina ; but that was an abuse of a good regulation. If parents will not keep their chil dren at home at night, the law should make them do so, for the public good and for the sake of the . future of the children. Unquestionably the presence of children at night on the streets of Norfolk requires eome cheek or limit. At Midville, Neb., a few days ago, Miss Genevieve Ransom was standing at the altar ready to take the marriage vow with Harry Keldar, when the bridegroom suddenly walked out of the bouse, leaving the bride-about-to-be fainting. She had been accustomed to smoke cigarettes but had promised ler Herry to quit. As the clergyman commenced the ceremony Harry smelt tier breath. He leaned nearer and said, "You've been smoking again !' She made no reply and he suddenly walked out and could not be induced to return. "Plucky fellow !" we say ; but why can't young women have the same pluck with reference to men whodrink, and otherwise unfit themselves to make good and true husbands? All business is practically at a stand still in North Carolina and will be so at least for fit teen days. The high ten sion over the election that prevails all over the State is such that people just can't give attention to business as they would under different conditions. And it might as well be said and understood now, that if the State should go Re publican in this election, of which there is scarcely a probability, however, North Carolina would suffer a shock to business and progress the like of which has not been felt here in a quarter of a century. And this would be especi ally true of Eastern Carolina. Such must not be, for the State is to be re deemed on Nov. 8th. How to Prevent Croup. We have two children who are sub ieet to attacks of croup. Whenever an attack is comine on my wife gives them Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and It alwavs Drevents - the attack. It is household necessity in this county and no matter what else we run out of.it would not do to be without Chamber- lain'n Hntifirh , Remedv. - More Of It is sold here than of all other cough medi cines combined. J. M. Nickle, o: Nir.Ele Bros., merchants, Nickleyille Pa, For sale by E. T. Whitehead & KID GLOVE VOTERS. THE LAZ7 MEN IN POLITICS. Present Say Thoughts. By G. Grosvenor Dawe. . (Written tor The Commonwealth') The Lazy Man in Politics.-A dream er in politics, who spins beautiful, un practical yarns of things as they may some day be, is bearable. He imparts color to the drab life that too many of us see. Dreams may, indeed, be made ol stuff that has neither texture nor warmth nor weight, but, like clouds, they often speaV of a light hidden, yet some day bound to be revealed. God bless the dreamers who walk abstract edly anions; us of more practical cal ibre and see visions and foretell changes ! They have their place, and they bring things to pass that are im possible to men of little laitb. But the lazy man in politics is a dif ferent creature. He neither sees the future nor cares for the present, except that "in his time there shall be peace" and be undisturbed. Like one man I have known with tainted well who had never known ot typhoid fever in the family, you cannot arouse him nor shake into him an understanding of the awakened spirit of the day that de mands a service in some form from every man as a requital to society for the care and attention it permits to surround him. He would silence the drums and fifes of those who do battle, for his eyes are closed in self-lostercd laziness so that he sees no hosts to com bat. He vacuously asks to be let alone, for he does not believe in the power of one solitary man, forgetting that enthusiasm and purpose have a self-multiplying element, so that when one man is aroused he may find follow ers enough to combat an army of en trenched wrong. The lazy man in politics iseyerredy to say in one breath, "This is Gods world," and in the next, "The political world lieth altogether in the wicked one ;" and between these two contra dictory assertions, like the man in the narrow lane with a hostile bull ' before him and another behind, he will take to the woods and there rest. To dispose of argument we will grant that God made the country and all the physical manifestations of life around us ; but social and political organization is made by man, and by man is it to be maintained, and by man is it to be im proved and purfied and by none other. There is no evasion of this thought possible to an honorable thinker. Do we create a beautiful city and then utterly neglect its constantly recurring needs because of our faith in the Al mighty to keep the stars in their courses? Do we work out an intricate machine and then leave it to run it self because other, higher law maintains the majestic movements of the planets? Then neither ought heroic, a-head-of-the-age men to be permitted to work out in blood and agony a system for giving every man a political influence ; and their successors neglect the eacred task and let it fall to the ground. It would so fall if all were lazy and will ing to let chance take the helm of - ai- airs and steer to mischance. The lazy man in politics is like the ungrateful son who forgets the breasts that nourished him, and would heart- essly leave his mother to starvation and to fate outside a comfortable home inherited from her. " The lazy man in polities is like the traveller by rail, who will admire the solid roadbed and entrust himself to the splendid safety devices of the block system and the inter-locking switches that carry him unharmed through be wildering freight yards, and then try to evade the payment ot his fare. The lazy man in politics is the kid- elove voter, who. having beard that practical politics form a filthy pool, be cause of his gloves and bis own per sonal appearance, will leave the pool untouched, no matter how vile its in fluence on the day that now is, and no matter how sinister its possible results in the day that is to come. The lazy man in politics is the wood en dummy upon whom the opposine office-holders can perform In safety their great see-saw act of "ins" and "oute." He is the rich man who finds it too much trouble to vote, and then goes to much more trouble m order to DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve has the largest sale of any Salve in the world. This fact and its merit baa led dishon est people to attempt to counterfeit it. Look out for the man who attempts to deceive vou when you call for DeWitt's i Witch Hazel Salve the great pile cure. E. T. Whitehead & Co. play golt ; or the poor man who does not think it worth while and is blind, since political conditions affect the very air he breathes and the quality of tb.3 food he can put before the hungry mouths of his children. The lazy man in politics, like the laissez-faire nobility ot France a hun dred years ago, is the real source of anarchistic murmurings. He it is who permits the stream of ill-timed, in digested laws to pour in contradictory terms in succeeding sessions from our legislative halls ; for he, the lazy man, lets the yo'te of freemen be manoeuvred in order to send to the last place they are suited for, law-makers whose ac quaintance with law in some cases hns been only in the breach thereof. It is the neglect by lazy men in politics that makes the great honest w.orking classes grumble at the antics of legal acrobats, because they often feel that legislation is bought and sold, and the real inter ests of the people ruthlessly neglected in order that the empty pocKet of a worthless law-maker may go home full. . . ' There is an excuse for lazy men in the politics of China or Russia or some other semi-somnolent state, but there is no excuse for it here. This is that blessed home c dear-bought freedom, where the voice and power of the in dividual cannot be suppressed a coun try where the rewards of political effort come to the active ones, whether they be good men or bad. - In so vast a country it is not well nor necessary that we should all agree as to methods, but we must agree as to means in con ducting its affairs those means include at the very outset to every man a vote, and back ol every vote a conscience. The Country Woman's Life. "If we want the lives of our girls and women on the farm to, mean mors, their lives must, first of all, be made easier, writes jvdwara Jios 01 "iae Girl Who Feels Isolated," in the Octo ber Ladies' Home Journal. There ; is too much menial work being done on our rarms Dy wives ana aaugniers which ought to be done by hired help. II the women cn our farms would form among themselves 'Leisure Guilds, ' and devise ways and means to have some of their work done for them, and not do it all themselves, the initial step would be taken towards emancipation and freedom from isla tion of thousands of women. See, lor example, what can be done in a town for the improvement of everybody in it, and start, if you will, -with a public library. There is a public gallery of prints of the best paintings : of gocd photographs a gallery made as the neuclus for an amateur photograph club, with summer jaunts and an ex hibition in the winter. There is a collection to be made for such a gal- ery of specimens of all the rocks, and plants, aud flowers, and insects of the place the finest material for pleasant winter evening studies and classes in natural history. There is the organ ization of a band for music in the summer evenings on the green, with refreshments served by girls to raise money for some other object ; a concert or lecture in the fall, perhaps. . There are reading classes and dramatic clubs to be formed for the winter. There is a woman's club for the study of cur rent events and books ; a farmer's club for the men for the discussion of agricultural science and economics ; a sewing club for the girls ; a manual training club for the boys ; a debating society lor the boys ; a branch of the Chautauqua Circle ; a King's Daugh ters' circle for some specific neighbor hood need or purpose ; an art exhibi tion of the pictures from the maga zines ; a singing-school for a- concert during the winter ; a neighborhood guild lor girls ; a guild for ,men and women lor the betterment of good roads and the plauling ot hedges by the side of them ; a dinner club lor young men, where each member gives one dinner to the club during the sea son at his house." V 100 Reward, $100. The readers oT this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure ia the oniv Dositive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a con- siitntional treatment. Halls tatarrn Cure is taken internally, acting direct ly upon the blood and mucous surlaces of the system,. thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength bv building up the constitution and assisting nature in Irwin r its work. The nronrietors have n much faith in its curative powem that, they offer One Hundred Dollars that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address. F. J. CHENEY & CO., ; r. ; - ' Toledo, O, Sold by Druggists, 75c. j: . " - Take The Commonwealth. POISONED BY " TOADSTOOLS. MISTAKEN FOE MUSHROOMS, Four Persons Died. rhilunelpUia Record. Trenton, N. J. Of the seven mem bers ot Henry Goldbach's family who were poisoned by eating toadstools at their home, No. 35 Jersey street, four are dead. They are : Henry Goldbach. Mrs. Henry Goldbach. Helen Goldbach, a daughter. Celia Goldbach, a sister of Henry. David Lesser, Goldbach's father-in- law, and a Eervant girl are seriously ill, but the attending physcians hope to save their lives. The others, a son and another a servant, are out of danger. The country round about Trenton is exceedingly productive of mushrooms and kinilred fungi, and tnsy have been eagerly gathered by persons who have little or no knowledge of the difference between the delicious mushroom and the deadly toadstool. They are sold promiscuously to vegetable dealers, some of whom seem either awfully ignorant or criminally negligent, so that poisonings due to the confusion ol growths are frequent in this city. GATHERED BY A NEIGHBOR. On Sunday afternoon last, Sopher Fritz, a neighbor ol the Goldbachs, and who is quite active in politic, started out into the country to gather mush rooms. He soon had a basketful ol the fungi, which he carried home with pleasant anticipations of the feast in store for him. When he got home, however, and told Henry Goldbach of his good luck the latter desired yery much to have the delicacies. He of fered to buy them, and at length Fritz reluctantly consented to part with his treasure. ALL SEIZED AT ONCE. The fungi were carefully prepared for Goldbach's Sunday night supper, and all the family ate heartily of them with great relish. They passed a pleas ant evening together with no thought of danger until late at night, when the daughter, Helen, complained of sick ness at the stomach. Almost immedi ately she was seized with convulsions, and before medical aid could be sum moned Mrs- Goldbach, another child, Grandfather Lesser, Goldbach's sister, Celia, and the servant were seized with the same symptoms, and then Gold bach himself was attacked. All had Violent spasms, and in the midst of the intense excitment there was a delay in calling a physician. DOCTORS LONG STRUGGLE. At length word was sent to Doctors Struble, Schoenmg and Beatty, and they promptly responded. All night and nearly all of yesterday they worked over the stricken family, and gradually gave marked signe of improvement in the cases. Last night it was thought all were out of danger, but early this morning signs of blood-poisoning ap peared in the cases of Goldbach, his wife, his sister and daughter, and in spite of every effort on the part of the physicians, the four died in agony late this afternoon. The phsicians are still working hard to save the lives of the other members of the household. The Goldbachs were very popular in the neighborhood in which they lived and the disaster has caused widespread consternation. The city authorities have been aroused and declare their in tention of prohibiting the sale of mushrooms in the markets. PrntUn's Famous Toast. : Our Youth's Friend. Franklin was dining with a small party of a distinguished gentleman, when one of thsm said : ' Here are three nationalities represented ; I am French, and my friend here is Eng lish, and Mr. Franklin is an American. Let each one propose a toast." It was agreed to and the Englishman's turn came first. He arose, and in the lone of a Briton bold, said: "Here's to Great Britain, the sun that gives light to all the nations ot the earth. The Frenchman was rather taken aback at this, but he proposed r "Here s to France, the moon whose magic rays move the tides of the world." Frank lin then arose and with' an air of quaint modesty, said : "Here's to George Wash ington, the Joshua of America, who ommanrior t.ViA sun and moon to LiUUiUiUilUVw stand still and they'stood still." Mnm than twentv mill'on iree sam ples of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve have been distributed by the manu facturers. What better proof of their confidence in it's merits do yon want? It cures piles, burns, scalds, sores, in tha shnrimt snace of time. E. T. Whitehead & Co. EL TRU ST THE CHILDREN. Trust the children. Never doubt them, liuild a wall of love about them ; Atterjsowing seeds of duty, Trust them for flowers of beauty. Trust the children. Don't suspect tnem, Let your confidence direct them, At the hearth or in the wildwood Meet them on the plane of childhood. Trust the little ones. Remember May is not the chill December, Let no words of rage or madness, Check their happy notes of gladness. Trust the little ones. You guide them. And, above all, ne'er deride them. Should they trip or should they blunder Lest you snap love's cord asunder.; New Conditions of Love Making. A writer in the New Yoik Picayune calls attention to the fact that modern courtship is carried on under more practical conditions than in former days. "In the past, when a young man went a-courting he went dressed in his best, wearing not only his company clothes, but his company manners. Tne girl, on the other hand, was pow dered and crimped out of all everyday knowing, and they sat and talked of soulful things, and didn't find out a bit more about each other's real selves than if one had been in the Klondike and the other on the equator. Neither was consciously trying to deceive the other, but all the same, after they were married, there were many cruel disil lusionments. "To the new fad for atbeletics for women we owe a change. The girl who goes out a-wheelmg with her bsau and takes the rain and sun and dust and wind and tan may not be a divini ty to him like the parlor maiden, but sne js a uuman gin and ne nas a chance to know her and judge her on that basis. If she still appears beauti lul to him and he is still in love with her she has nothing to fear from fading good looks, or wearing curl papers and wrappers to breakfast ; while If he still appears heroic to her in knickerbock ers and with sunburnt nose she may rest satisfied that her love is Jounded on a rock that nothing can shake. "Aside from this view of" the subject is the far more important one of cha -acter. s A woman's parlor views of life may be merely theories that - she lacks the strength and courage to put Into actual practice, and hence utterly worthless. The real way to know a woman is to go on an outing with her. If she can be cheerful in the face of difficulties, and can make allowances for mistakes and failures, if she can ac cept a substitute for the thing phe wants with a good grace, then, indeed, she is ot the kind and quality that will make her companionship a lifelong pleasure and benefit. "The woman, on her part, has an equally good chance to study a man. She sees him off guard, when he is no longer trying to be a Princo Charming. It is one thing to spring to pick up a lady's handkerchief in a parlor. It is another to stay his pace all day to keep near a woman who is a poor rider. That is the real chivalry a woman may trust to protect her in the days of sick ness and misfortune, and would be pa tient and forbearing with her weak nesses." When you call for DeWitt's Witch Hazel Sal ye t he 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. HARDWARE STORE! a n-nenftrt Unonf no hpc cmd most urj-to-aate Hard ware, and can fill any tlirougn tne traae. You can get any article of Hardware to foe found this side 01 .Baltimore. Special Attention is directed to life ami Leatber Belting, Hill Fixtures including ALL KINDS of PIPE-FITTINGS - AND PACKING-, and ENGINE TRIMMINGS. ESg We are prepared to thread and fit engine pipes of all sizes, and fit stove pipes to order. We are ready to accommodate any demand in the Hardware Trade. THE HARDWARE STORE, Scotland Neck, N. C. C. JOSEY & CO., Proprietor, IF YOU ARE HUSTLER you wnx , ADVERTISE TOVB Business. Send Your Advertisement ih Now. WE PAY THE FREIGHT AND SI6.S5 IS -L. . . ALL IT COSTS. ' mis s-pieee parlor suit, rocker, divan, and sofa, and two oarlor chairs, highly polished ' frame finicltrl ini tin.. stered in vclour or tapestry, largest size, and suit able for any parlor in the land, JS15 o$ and freight paid anywhere on earth. Such a nr. ana unnoi- "7: v bargaia as this you have never . seen before, no I matter how old you- are, and nevcrwiii again, probably, f you reach the century mark, which we hope you will. Further comment ia unnecessary, except that if you want to know of thousands of such bargains, send for our 160-page furniture catalogue, and if you want carpet at such prices as most dealers can't buy for, send for our ten-color lithographed carpet catalogue, and what you'll find in these two books will teach you something that you'll want to remember for many a day. Remember Christmas is coming, and sensible people give sensible gifts which sensible people most ap preciate. Something for the home is the best of all presents, and our catalogues win suggest to you what is best. Addrcu (exactly as below) JULIUS HINBS & SON, Dept. 909. BALTIMORE. MD. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQOOO Compare onr Work with that of our Competitors. ESTABLISHED IN" 1865. CHAS H WALSH Steam Marble d km WORKS, Sycamore St., Pftkbsduug, Va. Monuments, Tombs, Cemetery Curb ing, &c. All work strictly first class and at Lowest Prices. I ALSO FURNISH 1ROX FENCING, VASES, &C. Designs sent to any address frco In writing for them please give age ol de ceased and limit as to price. I Prepay Freight on all Work. MESTIOS THIS PA FEB. 3 1 ly Still Leads And Still Rapidly Selling. The only machine to date fitted with ball-bearings, and therelore the lightest and easiest 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 lor Hogs, Cattle or Sheep. C. T. LAWRENCE, Scotland Neck, N. C. E. P. Gatlix, Salesman. 2 24 tf. fhll and coirmlete order usually given 1 enforced. . . - Co. "
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