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ADVERTISING IS TO BUSINESS WHAT STEAM IS TO Machinery, V O That Great Propelling Power. IF YOU APtEJriUSTLEB YOU WILL ADVERTISE V YOCK Business. o i Sexd Your Advertisement in Now . IUON ra WIT A E. E. HILL.IARD, Editor and Proprietor. "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. " SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $i.oo. VOL. XV. New Scries Vol. 3. SCOTLAND NECK, N. P., THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1899. NO. 1 THAT CLA SS OF, HEADERS THAT YOU Wish ,roi it Adrertisement TO REACH is the class )vho read this paper. MONTHLY SUFFERING. Thcnsands of woinen are troubled at monthly inter vals -witli pains in the head, back, breasts, shoulders, sides hips and limbs. But they need not suffer. These pains are symptoms of dangerous derangements that can be corrected. Tlie men strual function should operate painlessly makes 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 month after month when Wine of Cardui will relieve her? It costs $1.00 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 I,aIies Advisory Department," The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. CO Mrs. ROZENA LEWIS, of Oenaville. Te.tas, says " I was troubled at month! intervals !ih terrible pains In my head and back, tut have been entirely relieved by Wine Ct Cardu!." i :4 1 ta PROFESSIONAX. pH. A. C. LIVERMOX, OFFiCE-Over the Staton Building. Office hours from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to t o'clock, p. m. SCOTLAND NECIC. X. C. ?M A. DUNN, AT TORN E Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, X. C. Practices wherever his services are required. W. H. Day. David Bell. DAY & BELL, ,1 TTORXE YS A T LA TF, ENFIELD, N. C. Practice in all the Cotirts of Hali fax and adjoining counties and in the Supreme and Federal Courts. Claims collected in all parts of the State. R. W. J. WARD, Surgeon Dentist, ' Enfield, N. C. Office over Harrison's Druf Store. "AltD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Connselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. CJ "Honey Loaned on Farm Lands. PjOWARD ALSTON, - - Attorney-at-Law, LITTLETON, N. C. pAUL V. MATTHEWS, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. gpGT'ColIeetion of Claims a specialty. WHITAKERS, N. C. JR. C. A. WHITEHE AD, 0 DENTAL Surgeon, Tarboko, N. C. hM MM'sfm Mange We are prepared to furnish telephone service to the public and solicit patron age, -s. RATES FOR SERVICE. Business Phones, " $2.00 per month Residence Phones, 1.50 " " Two ot either for 3.00 " " It is onr purpose to give good service, and to this end we ask all subscribers to report promptly any irregularities in the service. tf'.Our signed contracts prohibit the use ol phones except by subscribers, and we request that this rule be rigidly enforced. Persons tvho purchase anything ad vertised in this paper will do a favor t o both the advertiser and the editor by mentioning the fact that they saw the Vii fV"rS waasl -w wca. THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS. Points and Paragraphs of Things Present, Past and Future. Senator Butler's effort at cheap no toriety by offering a resolution that Confederate soldiers be placed on the United Stales pension list with Union soldiers, has called forth a storm of in dignation in many parts of the South. Many newspapers have denounced it, saying that the South does not wish the manhood of her citizens thu6 brought into question. Mr. Butler's stroke was a very unfortunate one. Last Saturday at noon the Coleman cotton mill in Concord, owned and operated by colored people, was started as an experiment hitherto untried. It is said to be the only cotton mill in the world owned and operated by colored people. The capital stock is $50,000, ind the success or failure of the enter prise may mean much to the colored race. The people of North Carolina, and of other States as well, will watch with interest this lone experiment in cotton milling by the African race. "Small pox follows war" has become to be a sort of aphorism that is borne out this winter by the prevalence of the disease in quite a number of places in North Carolina and elsewhere. Re cently it was stated that there were cases near Marion and in Wilmington, and perhaps at some other points. Also it has been given out that the disease had made its appearance at Newport News. There are some palpa ble reasons why small pox should fol- ow war. The mix anc travel of sol diers and others to and from various points make it easy for the disease to be communicated. Henry Ward Beecher once defined bad lncfc" as a man standing on the street corner with his hands in his pockets waiting for something to turn up, and "good luck" as a man with his sleeves rolled up at work turning up something. Doubtless many of us have thought with the close of the old year and the beginning of the new that we had bad luck last year. We have come out be hind, it may be, or we have failed to accomplish what we planned for a year ago, and now feel dispirited and half unwilling to start again. Let us roll up our sleeves ana do our best to turn up something whether the wind and tide set with us or not. There is not li ne: half so helpful as a good resolution. Despite the fact that Mr. Edward Bok and many others do not believe in New Year vows and resolutions, peo ple have been so long in the habit of making them that the year 1899 was ushered in with the usual number of such avowals and resolutions. We have sometimes thought that the very thought and desire for reform which ift us hih enough to cause us to make solemn vows for improvement make us that much better for the time, at least ; and is it not better to be good one day and have an approving conscience once in a year than to have none at all? Yes, let us make strong yows for positive improyement and see to it, that by the help of the Great Helper, we keep them. To those who live in communities where all can find employment all the time, it sometimes seems strange that people should anywhere be forced to beg for employment. And few of the persons In any community who find constant employment at the hands of others fully appreciate the fact that where they have a mind to labor they can do so and receive pay for it. In the large cities many persons who are cold and hungry in these winter day's would be glad, indeed, to have the op portunity to labor every day for food and only a little more. The possibil ity of constant employment for those who are dependent on their labor, is a priyilege which many laborers do not properly appreciate. When you ask for DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve don't acceDt a counterfeit or imitation. There are more cases of Piles beinsr cured bv this, than 'all others combined'. E. T. Whitehead & Co. W YEARTHOD&HTS. Let us Now Look Ahead for that Which is Best. BETTER WEAR THAXTJRUST. BY G. GROSVENOK DAWE. 1 Written for The Commonwealth. Sense for the despondent. Perhaps the backward glance along the path of eighteen ninety-eight is a very dis quieting one feebleness where there might have been strength, hesitancy in the place of perfect assurance, yield ing when there should have been a proud resi stance, vbstinacy at a time more fit for cheerful surrender, fear when there was the loudest call for bravery, bravado one day when there was nothing to make it good. Possi bly we can even see our own great stoggy footsteps across a quagmire we ought not to have traversed and mud still clinging to feet that were created to tread clean highways. All the innocent joy of the little ones who shout "Happy New Year" at us seems like a mockery. We say to ourselves "Happy ! Indeed how can I be happy? Failure over everything until life itself seems a fraud played upon those who are unwilling to live." The cheerful need no cheering ; it is the cheerless ones who should be call ed into a little glow of warmth : and then only by those who have known what cold is ; for we often resist a pul pit utterance when we feel that the speaker has no deep knowledge of life's hurly-burly. Some time ago I read a poem by a Boston man. It was a strung-out lot of sentiment about "A Bird With a Broken Pinion." His argument, and a very, seii-eyiaent one at that was that the bird with broken wing could never soar so high as before the acci dent, lhen he likened us who make failures to that same unhappy little creature. Surely he was far from be ing correct. It read to me like the nonsense ot comparing twoihings that were utterly unlike, and then basing a sermon upon resemblances that did not, could not, and never would exist. Truth is not in his idea. The sim ile was a false one, and .life as it is lived by human beings not birds proves it so. The man who has learn ed by serious and humiliating bumps that he cannot stand upright unless he looks well to the way of bis feet, will be a greater man, and a greater power than the one who never stumbles and therefore fails to understand how hard is the pathway of his fellows. Real leadership must have humility in it, and humility 13 hard to find among those who know neither testing nor tempting. In other matters besides those of conduct mistakes play valuable parts. The progress xf the world is based up on this, or that theory sworn to ve hemently for a while having been proved to be wrong The importance to the world of making errors is ranked by another quality belonging to us complex creatures, the ability to see a mistake after we have made it, ard to profit by it. In fact, to have done those things that we ought not to have done, seems to put us in the best frame of - mind to attempt those things we ought to do. Sense enongh remains within you to make you despondent over your short-comings be glad of that. You have not reached the stage of hoggish contentment with the mire of your own making. You have heart to yet believe that you are capable of better things than you have yet accomplished. So at this season when we are prone to look mainly backward, I summon you to a cheerful facing ot the future. Stop moaning and repining over lost opportunities. Nothing will bring them back. But you live, and life means that other opportunities are yet to be placed before you. Put courage in your .'heart for this two-fold reason you know the worst that is in you and regret it, and you must believe in better things yet to be, or yon would not long after them. Therefore I say, and with me speaks every soul that has ' triumphed over weakness and gone from strength to strength let the time of fearful diver gence from everything that makes for progress, be no longer remembered as Many a household is saddened by death because ol the failure to keep on hand a safe and absolutely certain cure for croup such as one Minute Cough Cure. See that your little ones are protected against emergency. E. T. Whitehead & Co. an active grief,, but assume in your mind a dull, gray background that shall make the completed picture of your later life's work stand out more clearly. After all there is usually a great deal of conceit In those who persist in be ing down-hearted. Examine yourself and see if it is not so. You sometimes think that you have been singled out for special affliction and misery. That heart within you is deceptive above all things and it would fain make you think the whole world is yellow just because your eye is jaundiced. Good sense besiege thee, sad friend ! . The universe is not to be jolted out of joint just because you are out of step. It is self-centred conceit that makes you think it so. Scan the universe some clear night and then reflect on the thousand times ten thousand other creatures be sides you who have hearts that can feel and needs that must be met. If your tiny agony within does not begin to shrink to its right proportions, you have no imagination at all. What business have you to be cuddling mis ery and asking to be excused for mak ing the world a better place to liye in? While we live we serve, or we are un worthy to liye. While we selfishly and conceitedly mourn wasted chances no good at ail can we do. .e Take courage and be sensible. Turn your past irresolution into purpose, overcome some fatal weakness within, by becoming so much interested in the day you serve that you have no longer any time to yield to the tyrant evil you once worshipped. Not any two of us walk the same path, so I cannot tell you what you should do. The first need is that you should have the willing spirit the way to serve will open up. Fight against any backward tendencies and you will prove yourself to be that which ,you sometimes want to be a man of influence. Real Culture. Culture of the bead alone is disastrous in its effects. It either makes a man a mere scrap-bag of odds and ends of knowledge, or a supercilious cur who looks down on the rest of us as Philistines and out casts, or it turns a man into a pon derous nuisance who needs must air knowledge and awe listeners on every possible occasion. You know all three kinds so do I. There is in my memory at this moment the picture of an awkward lout who by reason of col lege education knows the most extra ordinary details about languages, ancient and modern, but cannot suc ceed in doing anything higher than write addresses for a pittance ot less than $8 per week. That other sort of fellow is in every town, a little more bookish than his neighbors, by reason perhaps of the short-sleeved father who spoiled a man and made a fool when he denied himself to giye the lad a crust of education. Since the fatal day when the boy was led to think of himself as a little superior to the plow-boys he left behind, he has made culture an offense to the nostrils of those who have an infinitely better quality than miles of book know ledge heart knowledge which goes so much further than dead languages in the storms and stress and trials of life. The noisy, positive, disputatious char acter who has read much, remembered much, learned little is also familiar to all of us. Real culture is of head and the heart together. So that the learn ed one has pity for those less favored, energy for making the best of his mental outfit, and the strain of con sideration to him that characterized old Benjamin Franklin, who won his way by gentle courtesy and by diplo matic behavior towards those who dif fered from him. Useless knowledge furnishes no table, conceited know ledge makes no friends, overbearing knowledge fallows no fields for future cultivation. Real culture carries a man above the pettiness, the jealousies and the dispu tings of lower planes of thought, and lifts him up to where the view is broad and where he can see that there are two side to things. V Standard of Measure. How full ot splendid records this world would be if all were measured by their own in ner feeling ot worth and merit. But, alas ! there are, as a humorous philoso pher has expressed it, three John Smiths John Smith as he thinks he is, John Smith as his neighbors think him to be, and John Smith as he really is. So it is not surprising that our Overcome evil with good. Overcome your coughs and colds with One Min ute Cough Cure. It is to good chil dren cry for it. It cures croup, bron chitis. pneumonia, grippe and all throat and lung diseases.-E. T. White head & Co. own sell-estimate runs counter to the opinions formed about us. There comes the rub and many a good fellow better even than he himself thinks growssoured over misunderstandings by those who carfnot see the workings of his heart. The trouble is that we make too much of being credited with all we think we are worth ; and like the restless, eager child we constantly pull up our plantings to see if they grow, and consequently set back the crop of good results. Wre cannot make over the w6rld, and the wise man has to reconcile himself to the fact that we are sized up more generally by our foolishness than by our wisdom, by our mistakes rather than by our successes. I know it seems brutally hard that a clerk after long service should be treated as though his whole career had been no better than the one careless mis take, just found out, would make him appear to be. But he is, after all, neither better nor worse off than the best of us. The only comforting thought is that our own overestimate and the world's underestimate do not in re ality affect the permanent value of our work so long as we determinedly con tinue to do the best we can. To be really happy in work and to be most effective, which surely should be the ambition of all right-minded men is to stop worrying about long-delayed pats ot approval and to just keep on exerting ourselves in the way that lies open before us. Alphabetical Stages of Alcoholism, Selected. Dr. Cyrus Edson, the well known physician of New York, recently con tributed a paper to the North Americ an Review on the question, "Is Drunk enness Curable?" and ended the article by reciting an alphabetical rhyme, de scribing all the stages of alcoholism, from the first to a drunkard's grave, which he learned from a patient, a young man of great ability and fine moral perceptions, who was an incura ble inebriate. 'The doctor says that the young man's eyes would stream with tears, as he recited the following verses, describing his own case and career. It is the most truthful and graphic picture of the bind that has been printed : A stands for alcohol ; deathlike its grip; B for beginner, who takes just a sip. C for companion, who urges him on ; D for the demon of drink that was born ; E for endeavor he makes to resist ; F stands for friends who so fondly insist; G for the guilt that he afterwards feels ; II for the horrors that hang at his , heels ; 1 his intention to not drink at ail ; J stands for jeering that follows his fall ; K for his knowledge that he is a slave ; L stands for the liquor his appetite craves ; M for convivial meetings so gav T N stands for no that he tries hard to say O for the orgies that then come to pass ; P stands lor pride, that he drowns in his glass ; f Q stands for quarrels that nightly abound ; R stands for ruin that hovers around ; S stands for sights which his vision bedims ; T stands for trembling that seizes his limbs ; U for his usefulness 3unk in the slums. V stands for vagrant he quickly be comes; W for waning of- life that's soon done ; X for the exit regretted by none ; Y outh of this nation, such weak ness is crime ; Z ealously turn from the tempter in time. A Matter of Time. Philadelphia Call. ' A son of Ireland was painting a fence. His face wore a troubled look. Suddenly a smile shot across it ; and dipping the brush into the paint pot, be began to paint faster. "Why are you painting so fast? asked a by stander. "You're in a rush all of a sudden to finish the job. "Sure, an' thot's all right," was his reply. "I haven't much paint left, and t's finish ing the job Oi'm afther before it's all gone. No liealthv person need fear any dangerous consequences from an attack - i . i a t a. of la grippe it properly ireaiea. ai is much the same as a severe com ana requires precisely the same treatment. Remain quietly at home and take rihnmberlain's Couah Remedy as di- Tected for a severe cold and a prompt and complete recovery is sure to follow. For sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co. Norfolk Growing. Virginian Pilot. It is with commendable pride that we look about us at the rapid develop ment of the cities of Norfolk, Ports mouth, Berkley and the surrounding section. The most sanguine, ten years ago, would not hare anticipated what may to-day be seen, and we feel that in congratulating the community, the effect will be to cause the good people, who have done all this, to spur onward that this section may soon take its stand in the world's seaport cities, where it justly belongs. Right in the heart of th 3 city one may point with pride to the new mag nificent and modern buildings, while in the suburbs no more beautiful sec tion can be found than Ghent. Down in Atlantic City and Brambieton and In the vicinity of the city park the busy hand of the builder has done i;s work, and where a few years ago lay old fields, beautiful and happy homes now rear their heads. In Portsmouth and Berkley there Is a corresponding injrprovement, whil Lambert's Point is rapidly taking on the appearance of a town, with its manufactures and dwellings. This is no "boom" and scatce has there been anything said in public print regarding It. There has been little advertising of the city or its advantages, except by personal and private effort. It is simply the out come of location, climate and other natural advantages, coupled with the industry and enterprise of our people. The finest railroad systems in the world come to the city, as well as im portant steamboat lines and a trans atlantic line. Besides, within the city, e'ectric street cars, with a quick schedule and fast time, connect all parts and the suburbs within fifteen minutes. Within the past year even, thou sands of dollars of outside capital have been invested in the city and section, while arrangements are now being perfected to bring as much more. Jealousy's Penalty. The following Raleigh correspon dence to the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot tells the result of an affair of jealousy : "W. H. Holleman, of Apex, the 10- year-old boy who intercepted the let ters of a young lady whom he admired, plead guilty in the United States Court. to the charge and was sentenced to sixty days confinement in the Wake county jail. "Young Holleman is the son of Postmoster Holleman at Apex. In ad dition to the prisoner's extreme youth, there are other extenuating ci;c;ini stances connected with the case w'.ieh prompted Judge Purnell to pronoijnce the minimum sentence. Last January the boy lost his arm in a new mill and it has been impossible for him to do any manual work since. His father is a poor man with a large family and his mother is umfortunate. Postmas ter Holleman placed the management of the postoffice in the care ol his son after the boy lost his arm. Curiosity, conceived by Cupid and nourished by jealousy, overcame the young man's judgment. He secretly admired Miss Willie Hicks, a young lady of Carey, and he saw with dismay that she was corresponding with a supposed rival, Mr. Arthur Edwards, of Holly Springs. He could not resist the temptation of prying into these letters as they passed through the office. Complaint reached the government and Inspector Gregory invested the matter and established young Holleman's guilt." Social Life cf Clerks. The Keystone. Some people say that the private character of an employe should have no bearing upon bis lelations with his em ployer ; that so long as he does his work satisfactorily it is nobody's business how he spends his tims away from the store. This is a fallacious idea, how ever. In railroad, banks, and other lines of business there is strict watch kept upon the habits of employes, and if they are known to be spending their spare hours in dissipation, it is not long before they are dropped from their positions. Employers know that it is only a question of time when fast liv ing means stealing. .La Grippe Successfully Treated. "I have just recovered from the se cond attack of la grippe this year," says Mr. Jas. A. Jones, publisher of the Leader, Mexia, Texas. "In the latter case I used Chamberlain's Congh Remedy, and I think w:th considerable success, only being in bed a little over two days against ten days for the form er attack. The second attack I am satisfied would have been equally as bad as the first but for the use of this remedy as I bad to go to bed in about six hours after being 'struck' with it, while in the first case 1 was able to attend to business about two days be fore getting 'down.' " For s:de by E. T. Whitehead & Co. csoocoooooooooocccecocGccco WE PAY THE FREIGHT HU0 15. 5 ;S ALL IT COSTS. Q This s-oiece Darlor ti suit, rocker, divan, and fvPOv Q sofa, and two parlor chairs, highly polished and freight paid anywnere on earth. Such a tllfcrltn i c .1, : ""(' " litis JJj. you have never JfS5w seen before, no f;l matter ho old IferyvWM old fcsJ& and SsSH-'iVJ you are, neverwill again, probably, if you reach the century -57 J- p mark, which we hope you will. Further comment is unnecessary, excent that if von ii:nit tn Um of thousands of such bargains, send ft r our 5 i6o-pat;e runuture catalogue, and if vou want t'J carpet at sui.h pi ices ?s most "Valors 'c;u'"i buy O fur, send for om teu-coli-r lulio riphed -arptt O catalogue, and what you'll find in these two O books will teach you something that you'll Q want to remember for many a day. Kerni-mber O Christmas is coming, and 'sensible people give Q sensible gifts which sensible people most ap- Q preciate. Something for the hnnu- is tli.-'bit ti of all presents, and our catalogues will suggest O i yu wnai is dcsi. Address (exactly as below) U JULIUS & SON, $ Dept.. 9U9. BALTIMORE, K. X oooexxxsooooocooooooooooco Track Harness. All kinds of Shin and Ancle Boots, Hobble Harness, Racing Saddles, and all Race Track Furnishings. r.McWILLIAMS, 9-22-tf Tarboro. N. C. Compare our Work with Hint of our Competitors. ESTABLISHED IX 1S(") CHAS M WALSH' lim UA ul limits WORKS, Sycmiivri: SI., Vv:yy.v..-w r., 'a. Monuments, Tombs. CemokM-y Curb ing, Ac. All work strictly flis. class and at Lowest i'ricos. I ALSO FURNISH I HON n-f yj."' ?- FENCING, VASES, M, JfltPJi Designs sent (o any address Ireo. In writing for them please give age of de ceased, and hinit as to nice. I Prepay Freight oji si 51 Vorl;. mention Tins rAvi;!:. 3 1 lv And Still Rapidly Selling. The only machine to date fitted with ball-bearing, and theivtore tht li.liiCKt and easiest machine on the market. WHEELER AND WILSON Sold under a positive guarantee "ii easy terms for tbe nx.T.ry. Also new machines exclriirc I for old machines of any muke ; or !or Hoes, Cattle or Sheep. C. T. LAWKEXCE, Scotland ?ck, N. C. E. P. Gatlix, Salesman. 2 21 tf. Notice. By virtue of power conferred upon mo by that deed ot trust exected to mo by Henry Arrington and his wife, Sally Arrington, on the 15th day of February, 1893, and by that deed ot trust executed to me by said Arrington and his wife Sally, on the 3rd day of March, 1891, and by that deed ot trust executed to me by said Arrington and his wife Sally, cn the 2nd day of April, 1895, all duly recorded in the Register's office for iid county, I nh;i sell for cash at auction In Scotland Xec!;, on the 14th day of Januaiy, IS'JJJ, the fol lowing dercribed hind, iyi:i;r, l'ing and situated m paid county, to wit : That land bounded by the lands of Kcbsrt Stricklond, Feter HawKins, J. A. Terry, Mrs. Madry. main run of Deep CreeK, and Mrs. Thomas Strickland, ai d con taining one hundred acres, more or Jess. This oecemher 13th. 1898. 12-15-ts. W. A. DUNN, Trustee. Fretcy WaHPar.ers ! We can supply yQU with any and nil kinds of Wall Paper In U;8 l.-itest and prettiest designs, nt astonishingly low prices. It is direct from the great man ufacturers, United States Wall Paper Co., of Cincinnati, and is the Litest and most up-to-date paper on the market. E. T. Wftoshfad & Co. iv.'j','.ia;sFrT?T: any iud upi.ol- WjfiJ ft stered in velour or ! tl O tapestry, lanrt-st J) h.-.'Z-.x jTT O size, and suit- able forany parlor ffS&S'.jeJC.-gg in the land. 0 fi Illlliill. Lit advertisement tn The Commonwealth
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