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Q IST" U u 5 i U i. w S VII AT STEAM IS TO- Machinery, o T H VT G RE IT rROPEU,IN G PoWKR. j' I "My mother was troubled with I consumption for many years. At a last she was given up to die. Then she tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and was speedily cured." D. P. Jolly, Avoca, N. Y. No matter how hard your cough or how long you have had it, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is the best thing you can take. It's too risky to wait until you have consump tion. If you are coughing i today, get a bottle of Cherry Pectoral at once. Three sizes : 25c., 59c., $1. AH insists. Consult your doctor. If he say take it, then do as he says. If he tells yon not to teke it. then don't take It. He knows. Leare it witii him. We are Trillin J. C. AVER CO., Lowe ZJU Dyspe psia Cure :gests what yon eat. This p-eparatioR contains all of the dlgestants and digests ail kinds of food. It gives i nstant relief and never fails to cure. It allows you to eat all the food you want. The most sensitive stomachs can take it. By its use many thousands of dyspeptics have been cured after everything else failed. Is unequalled for the stomach. Child ren with weak stomachs thrive on it. First dose relieves. Adiet unnecessary. Cures all stcmach troubles Prepared only by E.C.De Witt &C,o Chlcaira Tue SI. bottle contains 2K tupatha'50c aSa. PIIOFEIOSAL. U.A. C. LIVETQN, Dentist. Of FrcE-Over Ncw Wfaithead Building Cilice liours irom V to 1 o'clock : 2 to i SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. OH. J. P. WIMBEKLK1, si OFFICE HOTEI. LA WHENCE, SCOTLAND XECK, N. C. Oil. H. I. CLARK, OiTica formerfy occupied by Claude Kitchin. M-iin Street. Scotland Neck, N. C yf A. JJUXN, JL TTOJINE Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices wherever his services art enuircd It. II. S3IITH. STUART H. SMITH gMlTH & SMITH, A TTORNE YS-A T LA W. Sfalen Bid'?, over Tyler & Outterbridge Scotland Neck, N. C. rUWARDL. TRAVIb, ' , Attorney and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. gfW Money Loaned on Farm, Lands. CLAUDE KITCHIS. A, P. KITCHIN. KITC'JIN & KITCHIN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Practice wherever services are required Office : Futrell Building. Scotland Neck, N. C. Coniparo our Work with that of onr Competitors. ESTABLISHED IN 1865. CHAS: t WALSH Sisn M&rblo &sd Granite WORKS, . Syeamore St., Petersburg, Va. ronuments, Tombs, Cemetery Curb ing, &c. All work strictly first class and at Lowest Prices. -I ALSO FUKNISH IRON FENCING. VASES, &C. Designs sent to any address free. ' In writing for them pleaao rUb age of de copsed and limit.as to price. , I. Prepay Freight aU? Work f4 J ft 1 UK . COMMONWEAL "VOL. X V III. KCV SCliCS THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOUBfS.1 Points and Paragraphs of Things a. mm i rast, rresew ana rotnre. j The changed condition o! the cotton i crop in North Carolina ior the uast s. four or five weeks, is another iiiugtra. xtioa of how people can be. easily de ceived in their calculations. sjx weeks ago the prospect was .good for th e finest cotton crop for years; but now the general estimate is for a half crop. "Americanitis" is the new word f describe the rush and hustle s " tense life of th A n" . SMifl go-rucky gait of our . 43 J efinltiott fo!r AtnerioanitIs" - femiliar phrase "get there." So tt we Wish to say thai one is "getting there" in the sense ot making any special hobby a success, we can just say he has "Americanitis" and it will be well understood. in,,. There is every indication that the coton crop will be short throughout the country, and it is hoped that the farmers will not be in a hurry to sell their cotton tnis season. It is quite reasonable that with a short tfop if farmers will hold bask any considerable quantity of it, they will stand a chance of getting better prices later 6ri in the season. And every oris Ought to desire to fcse the farmers do well, both in ths amount of nrodunta t hv raiae and in the prices they get, for the country's prosperity rests upon the farmers, after all. Some months ago there ' was m uch said In the papers about good roads Recently not so much has been heard on the subject ; tut the discussion ought never cease in North Carolina until we get a better system of roads. It has been a dry summer and we have better roads any way in the summer and fall than in the winter and spring ; so people have ceated to think and speak so much about the roads. It will only be two or three months before the rains will commence to soiten the roads and through the win ter and spring we shall have bad roads again. In turn speakers and writers will again make proclamation for the Lneed of good roads. Let us keep up the demand all the while, spring and summer fall and winter, until we get some improvement. "Practice what you preach," is an injunction often given by those who seldom follow it themselves. For in stance, almost any group of parents in conversation about their local school will readily agree that it is best never to pass criticism on a teacher before the pupils who are unler the daily in struction of that teacher. And yet no sooner does the teacher do or say some thing which does' not exactly suit any one of that group of parents in conver sation, than that same parent will score the teacher roundly and will not be very particular whether the child ren hear it or not. Or take the preacher any sensible group of church members will agree that it is best never to criticize their preacher before wordly people. -And yet as often as the preacher says or does something which they do not en tirely approve of, they forget their own conclusions about not criticizing the preacher and proaeed to say hasty things about him. Better all learn truly to "practice what we preach." USE ALLEN'S FOOT EASE, A powder to be shaken into the shoes. Your feet feel swollen, nervous and hot, and get tired easily. If you have smarting feet or tight shoes, try Allen's Foot-Ease. It cools the feet, and makes walking easy. Cures swol len, sweating feet, ingrowing nails, blisu tors and callous spots, teuevea and bunions of a.11 pain and giyes rest and comfort. Try W today. Sold by all dru?gWand.eboe tofes for, 25c. ri...., "anv substitute. Trial - - "feXCELSIOR-ISCUHtMOTTO. SUBSCRIPTION PRICEiTooT VOl 5 LITTLE SERIIOH THE PLAIN fflfiL'S Q3ANCES. ftnattties for a Wife. There are a few regular occasions on which evary pretty girl feels inclin ed to elv vent to hnr fin, i rwx.Ua J "gsod cry' says a writer la the Bog- ton Journal.' One is when her nlam sister ethers int the bonds , of matri- ifionjrwKa an exceedingly jmnrt-innk. rag young wan- . very mortifying if you happen o be pretty, to be left out in tha told, and the pretty girl never has under stood, and-oeyer will understand, how it is. , And perhaps it is really a good things for the Vea'ut-y of ifie family that Sbo is SO ignorant of this matter. If she fully comprehended, the brain workings of that strange creature, man, matrimony would Ibsfe its dearest charm. The handsome marries the girl. Cry as we will, this la a and one that we may test the plain ' Act, actu- h7 Ofeyery day we will. Take tip ifce ijueStion of forlorn beauty. Why is it? A man who is good-looking must admire beauty. He does admire it I He cannot help him self. Then why, the pretty girl in quires, does be marry her plain eister? The answer may be best found in the letters o? Iw&Ve intelligent men on the subject of choosing a wife. Each one stated seriously what qualities he would look for in a possible partner, and set them down in order, the most important first, the less important fol lowing. Taking an average, their ideal was to be as follows : First, kindhearted ; second, true and sympathetic: third, proud of herself for the sake of her friends : fourth, a good hoilse-keeper and a bUsy bee ; fifth, a graceful figure and beautiful ; sixth, wealthy and clever. The plain girl scores at once with her sympathy ; it is her . chief and most powerful weapon against a man. The girl with good looks hano need to find friends by being sympathetic, and it is doubtful if people would be lieve her sympathy to be genuine. At all social gatherings the plain girl is so much alone that her manner ap pears at once modest and retiring. Let a handsome man give her half an hour of his company and her whole mind is bent on being agreeable. But the pretty girl has a score of men to talk to, and falls into a habit ol inatten tion. The pretty girl really has a harder time than the plain girl. A Manly Han. Success. It is said that all the world loves a true lover, and in much the same way eyerybody loves a manly man. There is nothing grander or sweeter in life, unless it be a womanly woman. All like a transparent character, but no one likes things which are coxered up or concealed. People who are un certain of themselves, who are not sure of their characters, are always throwing up a defense to protect them selves against the close scrutiny of the world. Frank people fling the doors of their hearts wide open, for they have noth ing to conceal They are what they seam, "flaws and all ; but secretive peo ple, whose histories have not been clear, who lack the self confidence of true manhood, open their inner doors very carefully, very, guardedly, lest others get glimpses of their unnoly selves. There is nothing which will help a young person to succed more than a reputation for a clean, transparent, manly, and honest straightforward ness. We are afraid of people who are always on their guard, who do not quite dare to trust you to look into their inmost selves. Tiw Bifgest Not thoBest. A New York dealer who has bandied shiploads of fruit said recently : "It is often amusing to see men, women and .hiMmn nickin&r out. as they believe, SU ' - the choicest fruit at the market stands If there are a half a dozen large oranges within sight, they will have them, even it it is necessary to overturn all the rest in the box or barrel, and this is true with most all other yarieties that are sold by the piece or by the dozen. They invariably get the poorest sped. mens of the whole crop and yet are not aware of it, Very rarely you will find ho wtll a person wuu m b"" j .t. on m7.q uo the heaviest oranges, mmw w-w . t lemons or bananas, regardless of size and they capture the choicest fruit." SCOTLAND NEOK.N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Say Something Nice. The Christian En Jeavor World, Don't say 1 1, neighbor, no. Thai angry word. J ust let your grievance go I'm sure 'twere better so Sy all unheard. 'Twill not help hihi nor you j Less said, the less to rue. Yes, Iet.it go unsaid ; Take good advice ; Don't sjJeak to hurt j ibitead, Say something nice. Don't, brothers, be like bears ; It's all your loss, Smooth down your bristling hairs ; Shake off your fighting airs ; B sweei, hoi cross, Far better, side by side In love and peace abide., - Yes, boys, don't snarl or snap Not once noir twice. Don't storm nor stamp nor slap ; Say something nice. Don't, iear me, man and wife Scold, Mold, End sco!l Too short the daj s of life To spend'so much in strife ; Your temper hold. Speak words of love and praise ; Recall your eour ting daysj Mistakes and faults dismiss. Melt out the ice. And with a smacking kiss, Say something nice. Don't, parents, chide and chide Those bfiuns so if Ue, , Dear boys and girls briht-eyed, I know they are your pride ; They love you, too, Don't spek so much' of ill; Their youn hearts do to chill. Much good they do ; to more K'.nd words entice ; Your help their hearts implore ; Say something nice. Don't, don't, O mortals blest, OM'fe complain. God gives us what is best, His gifts his love attest ; From plaints refrain. No gift deserved, you know ; ' Then, do not murmur to. Praise, praise for grace to-day Abcve all price ; All wails and woes away, Say something nice. Good Company. Youths' Companion. It is good to live with fine old trees. They are the best of company to one who has learned their language. They listen or speak as one chooses and they nevef tell secrets. In the fair Kentish county of Eng land there is a certain pair of English oaks standing sentinel before a peasant English country house. Their proportions ate noble beyond praise. The great sweep ol their branches has gone, for they are old very old. But friendly ivy growing thick and lush about the limbs lopped by the hand of Time con ceals the wounds. Their gigantic trunks are three times the stretch of a man's arms. At. night, sitting beneath them, one is surprised by a whisper of wings, and a ghostly company of white owls sail forth, noiseless and weird, seeking their meat while the world sleeps. They are the most timid of birds, but the old trees are their friends and protec tors against intruding human curiosity. In the depths of their hollow arms the solitary birds are safe. Five, six, eeven hundred years these trees have stood, looking on the hu man life that has ebbed and flowed about their roots. What lovers' vows have they registered ! What lovers' partings have they sheltered! What children's game3 have been played around them ! What weddings and funerals have passed under their shadow! What bitter quarrels have they heard, and what lonely repentance have they sighed to see ! What crimes have been desired or devised beneath their branches ! What gentle deeds of mercy have been wrought within sound of their rustling leayes ! Gazing upon them now, there comes to the sensitive spirit a vision in which 3II ordinary human lifeas the flimsi ness ot a dream. Before the dignity! the silence, the age of these gigantic trees human discontent sinks away abashed, and one trusts, childlike, the power that has nourished through cen turies these great oaks, and has kept them ever more beautiful from youth to age. "Did he get married 1" "Not 'get, 'was,' she and her mother arranged it." Detroit Free Press. SERIOUS MISTAKE WHICH TOflHAJTY MAKE, Not Doing Anything. Selected: Twenty years ago a discouraged young doctor in one ot our large cities was visited by his lather, who came up from a rural district to look after bit bo "Well son," he said, "how are you getting along?" "I'm not getting along at all," was the disheartened answer. "I'm not doing a thing." The old man's countenance 1511, but he spoke 0! courage, and patience, and perseverance. Later in the day he went with his son to the "Free Dispen Atyl" where the young man had an un alaried position. The father eat by, a silent, but an in tensely interested spectator, while twenty-five poor unfortunates recieved help. Tlie doStdMbfSot hi visitor, while he bent his skilled energies to this task but hardly had the door closed on the last patient, when the old man burst forth : "I thought you told me you we?8 hoi doing anything 1" he thun dered. "Not doing anything ! 1Tb J f I had helped twenty-five people in a month as much as you have in one morning, I vould thank God that my life counted for something." "There isn't any money in it though," exclaimed the son, soiiiewlut abashed. "Money !" the old man shouted, still scornfully. "What is money in comparison with being of iiso td your lellow-man? Nevermind the money You gojrightalong witu this work every day. I'll go back to the farm, and gladly earn money enough to support you as long as I live." "That speech;" I said td a lrlend of mine, one who had spent many years us a conspicuously successful teacher "went in'o the bones of the young mau's life, and strengthened him for a iiie of unselfish usefulness. "Ah !" said the professor, "that oec speech was worth years of textbook teaching ! And yet it was made wi th out an instant's preparation." Col. Ingersol's Mistaken Prophecy. Lutheran Monthly, Pittsboro, Pa. Twenty-tivo years ago Robert Inger sol declared in a public lecture that the Bible was an exploded boo it that its sales were falling off rapidly, and that within ten years it would not be read anyjnore. But since then six Bi ble houses have been established and the sale of the Bib!e has been quadru pled. The American Bible Society alone issued more than 1,500,000 Bi bles last year and the British Foreign Bibfewaociety more than 5,000,000. OtberftJible companies show corres pondingly large outputs. The total number of Bibles a English alone, produced in a single year, is upwards of 10,000,000 copies. The Oxford Press turns out 20,000 Bibles in a week. More than 40,000 sheets of gold are used in lettering the volumes, and the skins of 100,000 ani mals go into Oxford Bible covers each year. The British and Foreign Bible So eties print the Bible in 400 languages. During the past year nl America's rule in the Philippines, 10,700 Bibles were distributed there. Contrary to expectation, since the Boxer inspec tion in China, the issue of Bibles for China last year Was 428,000 copies. The fact is, the Bible today is the most popular book in the world, and more copies are sold than of any hun drer other books combined. BerylYes, when Jack married her he thought she was an angel, but it wasn't long before he found out his mistake. Sibly Disappointed? T should say not. He found she was a good cook." Baltimore Herald. TAKE CARE OF THE STOMACH. The man or woman whose digestion is perfect and whose ttomach performs its every function i3 never sick. Kodol cleanses, purifies and sweetens the stomach and cures positively and per manently all atom ch troubles, indigestion- and dyspepsia. It is the wonderful reconstructive toic that is making so many sick people well and weak people strong by conveying to their bodies all of the nourishment in thelood they eat. Rev J. H. Holliday. of Holliday, Miss., writes: Kodol has cured me. I con sider it the best remedy I ever used for dyspepia and stomach troubles. - I was given up pbiM:' Kodol saved my m?T tt f,eal 77 TH, 11, 1902. MO 9f Came Oat Jnst Ev. Vouth's Companion. To illustrate L..w for wrong one may go in trying to rs ima'e tLe goods and ills in another mail's I if, a speaker at a recent public dinner told this stoy : Two good No v Engenders met nt ' college redchn? after t.venty live year They bad been c!83 friends lit the oU days, but had bht track of cicb ot'iei since. "Well, B;fl?" "Well, Charley?" "Tell me about yourse'f. Where have you been, and what have you done? Wh.il had your U b?en all ci tbis'quarter of a c ntury?" "Wll, Charley," said "Bill," rdlect ively and somewfcai 3adl(- "I'm about where I was when I started out twenty five years ago." " That so?" "Yes; just about in the same place." "But somciili ;?! bre happened to you," - "Yes, I've been married." -That's good." meH, f m'i know. She lurncrt out to be a terrible shi'S?." "That's bad." "Well, I don't know. There was one compensation, f-he was rich." "Thai's good." "Well, I don't ktty-f. She was also stingy." "That's bad." "Well, I'm uot so sure. She wns always just." "lfcat'cgb-cM." ' Well, yes, I suppose so But she died." "That's bad." "Well I don't know. She left a great deal ol mon'Cy." "Of course. That was wH, money is an advantage ." "Yes, it certainly is ; but she didn't leave me auy. "That,s bad." "Well, it might have been wore. She left me a fine house." "That's good." "Yes, that was good while it lasted, but the house burnbd." "That'd too bad." - "Yes, that was bad. It wasn't insur ed either. So I'm just where I was when I started." Edison's New Storage Batory. Selected. Thomas A. Edison, who has been working for a number of years on a new torm of storage battery, now an nounces his belief that he has brought his Jorm of battery to the highest pos sible degree of perfection. He has de vised, he thinks, a perfectly reversible instrument, which takes in electricity and gives it out again without dete rioration of its mechanism. The bat tery generally used consists of lead plates in an acid solution Edison's new cell is made of plates of iron and a nickel compound in an alkaline liq uid. The chemical reactions are sin -pie and stable, and the weight is com paratively slight. The inventor thinke that the electric automobile, by the use of his battery, will become the ve hicle of the future, and that, with an initial outlay of seven hundred dollars such a vehicle can be used at auy desired intervals for about fifty cents a time. The motor car will be prelera b!e ot the French type, with heavy running gear and light top ; it will br; noiseles3, can be stopped quickly, and mil need no irresponsible chauffeur. "How do you know the photograph flatters her" You havn't seen it, have you?" ."of course not, but didn't you hear her say she was greatly pleased with it?" 'Where shall I educate my daughter: Send her to pHHl IILE ACME i i : tf0?lt has iust closed it most prosperous ecfstrm. r? o1n9inn nr r.rflnniiM vb!1 fi? ART Departments are excetlen t. Write for catalop se. L. W. BAGLEY, Prin. June 17, 1902. : Scot'and Xeclr, N. C. 6-1 9-3m PR. MOfrETT'S 5E 7Ti7r?TMINfi TBS IF YOtf ARE A HUSTLER rorwut . ADVERTISE src-SB Business. PESI IQVTs AnVEKTISEMESl IN I NERVOUS PR0S7 RATION CURED BY PE-RU-NA. Hon. .T. A. Nhn.n, So rotary of Ihcf Board f r.ducaiion of San Francisco Cal., v. rltf-;: " karc t'etifrd Pcru-.tfiKti h'e.tt tonic. Some mouths svo i r,uili:rad with neuA rsstkenia zysietnic catarrh, ecusttr- iji' ?-7 cinso application to office v'orfc. My S)teM stemed worn cat snd I fcin f&rfron well. I fwrxt Pcmr.a bene-i fited me very natch. It ti:Ui vp i-t& entire system 2nd ms'Jo ni3 tci like ex new man. I bcHeve it is r.-cli K Grth) the high praisa bcsto;verl vpen J. A. SIMPSQX. Sy-mic catarrh at wry tfives fa! warninLr of it sniproao!., s'ifl -an 1m easily warded olf by pnijx t treat ment. Floating brown ppecko ivforc fiit1 mental confusion, flt.t of ner vous headache, eleeplcwure.", flnshen i heat, chilly BenUions, palpitation, irri tability, despondeucy : uny of thewt symptoms or all then ib.onld be promptly met by the i;?e of Peruno. ('oji2r..-im:m T.. X. liionkshire, from Tnrlinnii. in a- roeeut letter from Wash-f Ingtou, I). C, Kayf! "From what my friend ay, rerunai is a irood ton ie and a. r.ufo ca tarrh cure."! T.. V. P.rcok;diire. 'Htnotnr Ontiirrh," a book written by Dr. Ilart'.r.au, President The Hart man Banitnrhim, on the siib.i'et of the nor- voua disturhaiKTH iKHmli-te to ftunmer. gnt freet.) any r:ldr:vrt by Tlio l'cruna, MfdieinoCo.,tJohimbus,0. 1 Two Goldso:rj Mo : Tcrtunato. I 1 r,..,!sH-. : . I", IIS. . . reasr.. W. H. b'milbnd hi. li. Bor den, Jr., Lave returned Irom Florida, where they went to inspect real estate which tliey own together. From the report Mr. Htnith makes of their visit It is evident thsUhcse gcr.tlcmen have struck sr.rr.clhin.i,' hotter thmua gold mine. . Juti l.clo.v Iho furhtce of an 80 acre p'ece ;f land which they own lu Citrus county, l'loiiu;), lie Ihousniids uioil thousands (A lorn of phosphate rock for which they hac bfenollered cent rr ton. To make r.sstiranco donblv sura while they were on the spot they went below the surfar.o in several places and found the rock In great abundance. On the lauds adja cent to their property shafts are being sunk and the rcctc is being mined and chipped in cargo lots on vessels to Europe. .1 Messrs. Smith nni Uordon hn vo hM an option ou their land for .f."i,0) year for leu yeaiv, and this amour.t, is paid if there is not r. pound of Iho rock mined, which t-liows tl:t pros pectors who aro on tho nceito have great conrid?nce both in the quality and the quantity of the phopp!it3. H the prot--pect.--r.-i jjo to work, which they have a!re;;dv done, and 013 up tho ma tenal th !f-r).000 will l-o arpropiiflted to ibe payment of tho n,c:k ut tho rate of S." cents i or lou. Mr. Smith ia very enthusiast ic over his good fortune He is confident that tho yield of phos pha'e rock will net him nod JUr. Bor den not less than Sf.Vl.OCO and possibly , 100,W) Both uro receiving tho con gratulations of their friends over their holdings which promts muji haud Sftme returns. 4 tin wsv 1 I It ti fiords a practi Its MUSIC and COllCM chlSSCS POVVDERSr z!mat, iihotit a. Tbther dy ldfin MJ ; '"'' j: ! J, A. f-'IMI'SOX. I Hec'y B'U of Edn'tlti!i,Srn Fjynrli'co. r. m w JM 5 Jdf I K -
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