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Let those who wish and will, spend tbeir time speculating about the poli tical situation now and what it will be four years hence. But The Com monwealth suggests that there will be time enough for us all to get in line time enough to vote again after we have giyen three solid years to our im mediate business. Let us all get down to business and work. Yes, let us work. There is no need for idlers. Every living mortal with good health and an opportunity ought to have some kind of employment. Out upon idlers, loafers, loungers, gadabouts, gossips and tale-bearers. Everlasting diligence at something is the best motto. . The press of the State is in a sug gestive mood since the election. Al most every quill-driver is ready with a wise suggestion about business and labor. It is rather strange that many people follow the lead of the newspa pers they believe in with implicit con fidence concerning matters political, b"t will not do it in other matters. Many times the undecided voter waits to make up his mind according to the advice of his favorite newspaper ; and ofterner than not the pansr leads hiro right. Now, the papers give just as good advice about business and farming and such like as they do about pol itical matters. Then why not follow them? The South's potentiality, in which The Commonwealth has great faith and of which it has repeatedly spoken, is well described in the following, repro duced from the New York Commer cial in the Manufaturers' Record: "Nearly every State in the South is a great producer of raw materials, and every Southern State sends away many millions of dollars annualy for man ufactures that might be made by itself or its neighbors. In one item of fur niture and woodenware the South might easily make an enormous saving every year to utilize tne products 01 her own forests. Her workable woods grow in great variety, and they should not be shipped to distant States only to be returned in manufactured shapes for bouthern consumption at greatly- enhanced prices. "The South produces practically every constituent that enters into com mercial fertilizers, yet she continues to out the great bulk of these and ' her consumption of them is enormous in outside States. "Nearly eyery freight train and steamship that moves southward carries thither vast quantities of can ned fruits vegetables and other food products, of which the South is a great consumer, and of which she might easily become a great packer were she minded to utilize her own resources to the limit. "Her vegetable fibers, most of which now go to waste, have in 'them great possibilities for wealth-making. American upholsterers actually Import whole cargoes of "African grass" and other fibers that are inferior to the lowly saw palmetto for mattresses and furniture. And a textile fabric as fine and as hgbt as silk, and much more durable and cheap, can be made from the prickly leaf of the pineapple plant. For warm-weather gowns the women lolk of the entire country would wel come it and pay most liberally for it, yet the' pineapple leaf dries up and rots in the plantation furrows. . "And so the story might proceed. Tne movement of n.,inufacturing in the South is siul in its infancy. Where it has begun at all, it is almost without exception successful. The figures of the twelfth census will be a revelation in this particular, and they ought to prove a stimulus to greater achievement in the richly-endowed section." When you want prompt actinglittle pills that never griper useWitTSXifr tie Early Risers. E. T. Whitehead Co. SCOTLAND HOI. THE HEEO PAGE NO. 7' Senate Bill 578, Brand Whitlock In Saturday Evening Post, He was a page in Illinois Legislature ''House Page No. 7," the bright me tal badge on the lapel of his coat said and all day long he heard nothing but '-Here, boy !" from city membere, or "Hey, bub !" from country mem bers, or "Hi, there kid !" from the oth er pages, or "Get a move on you, Sey en !" as the chief page snapped his fingers at him in his lordly way. His real name was James, but he never heard that, now that his father was dead. His mother called him Jamie, Jamie was kept very busy and yet he enjoyed his legislative duties. He telt that it was a big thing to help even in his humble little way, to make laws for all the people in the State. It was pretty important, for Instance, to carry a paper from some member up to the clerk's desk, for after the clerk had read it, on three different days, and the House had voted on it and passed it, and after it had been read on three different days and passed by the Senate, and after the Governor had read it and thought over it as he walked bacc and forth between the Executive Mansion and the State House, and had written his name on it, It became' a i iaw, and everybody in the State had to obey it or go to jail. The people were called constituents ; they seemed to be divided up amongst all the members of the Legislature ; everybody in the State House had hi constituents. Jamie itlt that, as legislator, he should have some constit uents, but he couldn't decide who bis constituents were, and he didn t like to ask anybody. But finally he thought of his mother, and when he told her that she was his constituent she took his little face between her two hands and kissed him and pressed her cheek to his. Her cheek was moist with tears. If everybody in the State House had been as good to his constituents as Jamie, Illinois would have been a very happy place in which to live. When his father died, Jamie's mother had to take in sewing and to work hard to keep things going. She was sad much of the time, and always looked tired, and this made Jamie sad. He longed to help her but he did not know what to do. Then a friend of theirs, Mr. Woodbridge, said he could get Jamie a place In the House as a page boy they always say "page boy" In the Leg islature and one morning Jamie s mother dressed him in his Sunday suit and sent him up to the state House with Mr. Woodbridge. And so he became a page. He was paid a dollar and a halt a day. Every twenty days the pay-rolls were made out, and Jamie would go down to the Treasury, sign his name in a big, round band, "James Horn," and then proudly take home to his mother thirty dollars in fresh, crisn, green bills! HIs mother had wished him to stay in school, but of course, being a was better than going to school. There were no books to study, and then you got out so much earlier eyery day! And more than all, you could not take home money from school ! The House met every morning at ten o'clock, and after the Speaker had taken his place under the canopy where the beautiful flag was draped, and had rapped for order, and the chaplain had prayed, the clerk would call the roll for introduction of bills. This was Jamie's busiest time. Every body would have bills to introduce or petitions from his constituents to pre sent, and for an hour Jamie would be scampering up and down the aisles be tween the members' desks and the cierk's desk. But , after that he bad a breathing spell, and could ait on the Speaker's steps and whisper to the Speaker's page, or look about over the Home and watch the members. There were graye members from the country districts with long whiskers and steel bowed spectacles, there were city mem bers with fancy vests and diamonds, there were Irish members and German members, there was a Polish member named Kumaszynski, and there was a negro member, who sat away back on the Republican side almost under the galleries, and was very quiet, and wore black olothes and gold eyeglasses. ' But there was one whom Jamie liked above all the others. He was tall, with smiling blue eyes that saw everything, and though his black hair was patched with gray at the temples, to Springfield on the Monday after noon train instead of waiting tor the Yielding to, the persuasion of my dealer, I changed chill tonics and tried Roberts', and found it the best I ever used " W. H. Corprew, Jamesville, N. C to the Roberts Drug Co., Suffolk, Vi, Aug. H, 1899. Price 25c. , Get the kind with A cross on label. EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, nis tace was tnat oi a young man ciean-snaven ana : ruaay. lie was a Chicago member and the most fashion ably-dressed man in the House he wore a different suit of clothes every day. He was a lawyer and his name was Bronson Meredith. Jamie loved him the first time he ever saw him, and whenever Mr. Meredith clapped his hands Jamie would spring to his side before any other page had started, and if by chance Mr. Meredith ever gave a resolution or a bill to any of the other boys Jamie felt a twinge of jeal ousy at his heart. Sometimes he would loiter an in stant beside Mr. Meredith's desk, and a smile from him made Jamie happy all that day. Jamie longed to touch him with his hand but dared not. The only thing he could do was to pat Mr. Meredith's overcoat, with its soft, silk en lining, as it hung on his hook in the cloakroom. At night, lying In his bed, Jamie would close his eyes and see Mr. Meredith standing beside his deek, his lips slightly parted in a smile, showing his white teeth and replying so sharply to members who interrupted him that they would shoot down into their seats with red faces and all the other members would laugh, while Mr. Meredith, raising his hand, would go on with his speech, saying : "Now, Mr. Speaker, as I was about to remark when I yielded to the per plexing question of the distinguished gentleman from Pike " Mr. Meredith was not often on his teet, as they saj in legislative bodies, but when he took part in a debate all the other members kept still and listened with their hands behind their ears, which they didn'i do when any one else spoke. Mr. Meredith was a leader many called him a reformer. Jamie decided that when he grew up he would be n lawyer, a leader and a reformer. Now, when the sefesion was about over there was a bill in the House which almost all the Chicago members hoped to see made into a law ; but Mr, Meredith was against it. The country members, too, for the most part were against the bill, and Jamie noticed that wnen it first came over from the Senate there was a stir in the House, and that every time it came up, after that, all the members would rush in from the cloak-rooms, or the lobbies, or the Supreme Court Library, or the rotenda of the State House, to speak about it and to vote on it. Jamie did not understand the bill, or know what it was for ; he only knew that it was something about a fran chise in Chicago, and that every week party of rich-looRing gentlemen would come down to Springfield and stand about in the House, or sit on the big red lounge behind the Speaker's chair, and whisper and try to get men to vote for it-. And Jamie knew, too, that It was called Senate Bill No. 578 ; he impress ed that number firmly on his mind and could never target it. He soon ob served that on any day when he saw S. B. 578 on the calendar which is a kind of program printed every morn- ing to tell what bills are coming up Mr. Meredith would be on his feet and make motions and speeches, and that the gentlemen on the Speaker's red lounge would scowl at him and the other citv members try to answer him. And Jamie noticed that Mr. Meredith always succeeded in having the bill re ferred back to some committee, or did something to prevent it from becom ing a law. Jamie read the newspapers now and then. He always turned first to the base ball news the season was just opening and then to the legislative news, although he never read that as carefully a" he did base ball news. Often he saw Mr. Meredith's name In types the papers said he was making a gallant fight against the franchise grab. Jamie hoped with all his soul that Mr. Meredith would win in that fight; not, of course, that he cared about the franchise grab he had, like many older persons, very hazy ideas about that but he always wished to see Mr. Meredith win. The spring had come, and as the Legislature usually ends early in June, and the work was piling up, the House was meeting at nine o'clock in the morning. The House adjourned every Friday at noon, in ordor that the mem bers might go home over Sunday, and It didn't meet again until Monday af ternoon at five o'clock, and then only for a few minutes. The members wbo bad gone did not get back until Tues day morning, and there were never many there Monday afternoon, cot even a quorum, and it was always un derstood that .nothing was to be done at that session. The chaplain prayed, When others fail, take ' Roberts' Tasteless Chill Tonic. It cures chills, fevers, malaria and general bad health. 25c A red cross on the label assures yon of the pure, high-claas material that makes Roberts' a success. Don take a substitute. ' the journal of Friday's session was read and approved, and the House adjouraed until Tuesday morning. But one Monday afternoon when Jamie reached the hall of the House he was surprised to find a big body of members there almost all the Chica go members except Mr. Meredith Those rich gentlemen were there too, sitting on the Speaker's red lounge. Jamie looked for Mr. Mere dith he was not there. He thought instantly of Senate Bill 578 some thing was up ! They were going to try to pass Senate Bill 578 that was why the gentlemen were there on the Speaker's red lounge ; that was why tho Chicago members had come down to Springfield on the Monday after noon train instead of waiting for the Monday night train. Jamie was wor ried. It was a balmly spring day with a sky blue and tender, and a-soft wind that waited strange sweet country smells about, smells that filled JamTe with dreamy longings and a kind of pleasant sadness. The Speaker gently tapped with his gavel : the good old chaplain arose and spread out his white hands. "O Lord," he prayed, "we thank Thee that the winter is paat, that the rain is oyer and gone, that the flowers appear upon the earth, that the time oi the singing ot the birds is come." xne woras stole sweetly in upon Jamie's soul. He sat on the steps. loosing out of the open windows at the tender young leayes of the maple trees it was just the way he used to ook out of the windows in school be fore vacation came, when he thought of the swimming-hole out at Sycamore and of going barefooted. It was all so calm and peaceful. But with the chaplain's "Amen !" the Speaker's gavel cracked and the buzzing noise peculiar to the House began again A -T mm . Ana Jamie awoKe irom his reveries with a start; He had heavier things to think, of now ; he was almost a man ; be was in the Legislature. Senate Bill 578 was on its third reading, the gang waa present, and Mr. Meredith had not come. Jamie was troubled and sighed. He must attend to his duties he must do something. Jamie looked over all the faces be fore him ; nowhere could he find one man he could trust as a friend of Mr. Meredith. He glanced at the door with a ling ering hope that Mr. Meredith would appear, but of course he did not come. Then Jamie slowly hitched down the Speaker's stairs, a step at a time, and, reaching the floor, slipped over by the reporters'" boxes empty that after noon, for the correspondents, like the legislators, never returned until Tues day morning and thence into the side aisle, under the gallery, and to the cloakroom. There he got his cap, looked longingly at Mr. Meredith's hook, empty now, with no satin-lined overcoat for him to nestle lovingly against for a blissful second, and then he went on out into the hall under the huge dome. No one, of course, observed a mere page boy, but Jamie felt, as he clicked his hurrying little heels across the marble floors, that something was about to poke him in his cold, unpro tected back the fear of a rear attack that boyhood inherits from its far-dis tant savage ancestry. Jamie didn't take the elevator, or the grand stair case, but reached the main floor by leaping two steps at a time down a narrow stairway, unused and dark. Then he flew out of the east en trance, ran down the wide walk and on up Capitol Avenue for tour long blocks ran as fast as he could pump his little short legs to the hotel whero be knew Mr. Meredith lived when he was at the capital. But Jamie had no hope of finding him there that after noon. He went to the hotel simply because he did not knew where else to go that was all. Rushing into the hotel and up to the cierk's desk, be put his chin over its edg and, as the clerk leaned down with his face al most in Jamie's face, the boy panted : "la now Honorable Bronson Mere dith in?" The clerk smiled and Jamie blushed, fearing the clerk was making fun oi him. And his heart sank he might have known Mr. Meredith was not in. "Who did you say ?" arked the clerk, j "Honorable Bronson Meredith the! gentleman from Cook " The clerk was knitting his brows, though the wrinkles about bis lips were twitching as if he found it hard to 1 keep them from rippling .out into smiles. Jamie tbougt the clerk was wonderfully stupid not to know such a great man as Mr. Meredith, and he ad ded, in order to jog the man's memory a little : "You know the reformer." I I Best Couck gyro. TaateaGood. Cel I J to time,. Boldhydnyif. I I SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $i.oo. 1900. NO. 46- the clerk straightened up, placed his hands on his hipg, threw back his bead and laughed. Jamie started at him with wide eyes ht saw nothing to laugh at, especially when Senate Bill 578 was coming up. Presently the clerk took one of his hands from his side and dropped it on the big bell beside the register, and as it clanged out in the empty lobby, he shouted in bis laughing voice : "Front !" A bell boy in buttons slid to tha desk just as a page boy does in the House when a member claps his hand?. The bell boy and Jamie looked each other all over from head to toe in the instant they stood there facing each other, and the clerk began : "Go see if Mr. Meredith" And just then a tall form sppejreS around the corner of a wall, and Jam if. looked up. It was Mr. Meredith himself, .-i smiling as the spring, with a bunch ' violet in the lapel of his new I'ln coat. Jamie sprang at him. "Oh, Mr. Meredith," he said, raising his clasped hands almost appealingly, come quick !" "Why, what's the matter?" said Mr. Meredith, halting in surprise. "They've got Senate Bill 578 up !" Mr. Meredith's eyes opened ; his lacs lost its mild expression. "What do you know about Senate Bill 578?" Jamie took him by the cont he dared at last to lay hands on his sacred person and tugged as he said : "Oh, honest Mr. Meredith honest cross my heart they haye you'll be too late !" Mr. Meredith looked at tho pleading lad closely, and then suddenly ex claimed : Oh, yes! You're one of the page boys." And then he ran as fast as be could through the lobby, down the steps and across tha sidewalk, Jamie after him. "Come on I" cried Mr. Meredith as he stooped to plunge into a carriage at the curb, dragging Jamie in after him, and shouting to the driyer : J ue Sta.to llou lust as you can drive !" lne driver whirled bis carriage about in Sixth Street, and as Mr. Meie- dilh drew in his head and slammed the heavy door he shouted : Faster there ill double your fare !" The carnage lurched around the corner, tho Ir.sh oi Uio driver's whip writhed in the air, and the horses went galloping with the rattling old back down Capitol Avenue. And as the carriage pitched and rocked Jamie was upremely happy he had dona what he could, and, better than all, he wat sitting beside Mr. Meredith and actual y riding in the same hacK with him ! Mr. Meredith was silent until the carriage whirled Into the State House grounds and the horses, breathing heavily, were plunging up the drive way toward the north portico. Then he turned and said : "How'd they knew I was in town?" Jamie looked up in surprise. "Who?" he said. "Why," replied Mr. Meredith, "who ever sent you." Jamie felt hurt. "But no cne sent me, Mr. Meredith," he said ; "I just came." auu uunf uiu juu ftuun x nao uci . "1 guessed." Mr. Meredith was thoughtful for tn instant and then said : "But why did you come?" Jamie blushed. "I I I now " he stammered. I don't like to tell." And he hid his face against Mr. Meredith's sleeve. The carriage stopped, the driver eaped from his box and Hung open the door. Mr. Meredith sprang out, leaped up the stone steps, ran down the corridors, dasbed into tbe elevator and was shot up to the third floor. Jamie had been compelled to run faster than he ever did in his life to keep up with Lira. Hi was nearly pinched by the iron door of the elevator as tbe man bhd it shut. But he was close at Mr. Meredith's heeLs. when he ran into the House. The few Senators, having just con cluded a perfunctory Monday alter noon session over in their more or less solemn chamber, were bustling into the ball of the House, eyidently ex pecting something of interest to cccur. They pressed by tho doorkeeper, end as they entered Jamie heard the Speaker cry : "The gentleman from Cook atks unanimous content to have Senate Bill 578 taken up out of the regular order, read at large a third time, and put upon its passage. Are there eny ob jections?" The Speaker raised Lis gavel, waited an Instant, and said : "The Cbair hears rj j. Si X" O? l-i X.fi- . i Hava Alys BcgK Business. Send Your Advertibemi:m in Now. But suddenly a voice beside Jamie rang out like a bnele : "Object !" The Speaker looked up In amaze ment. The members of the gang turned about in their seats with startled, guilty laces ; tho rich geutlo mon on the Speaker' red lounge leaned forward with j.ainr 1 r predion. Mr. Meredith was efrkln down tbe centre aisle, his hat i:. I "s baud, his face red, his eyeu ou five. Half way down t! a aisle be halted and once more shouted in that fearless note : 'I object I A million people in Chi- oago to-night are waiting to hear from this Honsa on tbfs frinchis9 bill I .lure you to tae it im in thia bIai- harnl er cession !" Mr. Meredith's hand swept a large ire that included tho whole House as he fi u rjg Lid defiance, and then ho stood plating at them all. The eyes that wet Mr. Meiediths eves ouailed : the House was etill. No cne arose, no one replied to him. Then after a louse minute of this painful silence tho Speaker, lowering his head until Jam is could not see his face, said in a low voice : "Objections are heard." And so the tranchiao grab bill was not taken up that day after all. The seision was yery short after that, nd when the House adjourned Mr. Meredith went down to the Speaker's dais. 1 he breaker looked un as if ha thought Mr. Meredith was cominc to peak to him, but Mr. Meredith stop ped at the btcps, and taking Jamie's little band he pressed it in his own big palm and said : "Come with me." It wes the proudest moment of Jamia'e life as he walked out of tbe noby chamber, through the crowd of an'ry, bafiled members, past tho star ing pages, by the wondering doorkeep ers, and so on out into the rotunda. They walked down tho great white stairs, and as they pasted around the polished bross railing of the balcony on the second floor Mr. Mere dith tr.ld, as f. suddenly leaiindal of something: "Beg your pardon, but what's our name?" "James Horn," replied Jamie. They kept on and Jamie wondered where they were going, until they turned into the Governor's office. Jamie's heart leaped suddenly. Surely this was a day of big surprises, thought he. "Is the Governor in?" Mr. Mere dith asked of the Governor's private secretary. "Yes just go right in, Mr. Mere dith," and in another instant Jamie was standing beside Mr. Meredith in the presence of the Governor. Tbe Governor arose as they entered, and looked first at Mr. Meredith, then lowered his kind blue eyes and fixed them on Jamie. "Governor, said Mr. Meredith,"! wish to present my little friend, Master James Horn." The Governor bowed, took Jamie's band in his own and said in his soft voice : I'm glad to meet you, Master Horn, I'm sure." Jamie felt himself tingle all through at the Governor's wcr Ja. "Master Horn, Governor," continued Mr. Meredith, " is ;i page boy in the House, and to-d.iy, when we were all caught njpplng, he saved the franchise bill from becoming a la'."." The Governor, looking a question at Mr. Meredith, said : "Ah?" "Yes," answered Mr. Meredith ; and then, when the Governor bad motion ed them take seats, and Jamie had worRed and wiggled himself away back into a deep leather chair, with his legs and feet sticking straight out in front of him. Mr. Meredith told tbe Govomor tho whole story. - When be had done, the Governor arose and went over to wnere Jamie sat in tne nig chair, his arms stretched along the chair's annp. Jamie would have wriggled out of the chair, but be had not time to do so. And then, as he looked up into the grave, kind face, His Excellency, speak ing very seriously, said : My boy, you have done tbe people of Chicago and theJjeople of Illinois a great service a service you will under stand some day and now, co tbeir be half, I wish to thank yon for it."- IT DAZZLtS THIS WORLD. No Discovery in medicine has ever created one quarter of the excitement hat has been caused by Dr. King New Discovery for Consumption. It' severest tests have been on hopeless vic tims of Consuoap'ion.Pneumonia.Hem orrhage, Pleurisy and Bronchitis, thous ands of whom it has restored to per fect health. For coughs, Colds, As thma, Croup, Hay ' Fever, Hoarseness and Whooping Cough It is tbe quick est, surest cure in the world. It Is sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co who guarantee satisfaction or refund mon?v. Large bottles 50c and $1.00. Tr'ul b- ties free. .
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