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ADVEETISIK3 IFYOD AF.E AUUSTLEl. rouwux ADVERTISE TOO Bucdneca. tiT MMOHWEA-UTH JUS!MES$ 'WHAT STEAM IS TO- Machinery, E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor.' "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO SUBSCRIPTION PRICR i.oo. That Great pROPEixtsra Power. VOL. XIX. Jew Series Vol. 6. (6-1 8) SCOTLAND NECEVN. O, THTJRSD AY, APRIL 2,1903. NO. 13 8jtl our Advertisement i Row Tired Out G03 THOROUGH EDUCATION . . VSi . HIGH SCHOOLS. IffilMlE WITNESSES ' . jp D I T O Ij S JwB I SURE 1 Jt O U 1S " I was very poorly and could hardly get about the bouse. I was tired out all the timeThen I tried Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and it only took two bottles to make me feel perfectly well." Mrs. N. S. Swin ney, Princeton, Mo. Tired when you go to bed, tired when you get up, tired all the time. Why ? Your blood is im pure, that's the reason. You are living on the border line of nerve ex haustion. Take Ayer's Sarsaparilla and be quickly cured. Sl.Ms setae. All , Ask your doctor what he thinks of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. He knows all about this grand old family medicine, follow his advice and WO will be satisfied. J. C. atkk Co., Lowell, n n Dyspepsia Cure Digests what yon cat. This preparation contains all of the digestants and digests all kinds of food. It gives Vnstant relief and never fails to cure- it allows you to eat all the rood, you want. The most sensitive stoinchs 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. A diet unnecessary. Cures all stomach troubles Prepared only by E. DeWitt & Co., Chicago -ne si. Dome contains a times we wc. E. T. WHITEHEAD & CO. PARKER'S I AIR BALSAM CIodms sad beaotifiM th. hab If sver Vails to Bestore Gray MframauM a Amntn rrowtn. Cures )! dimn t hsfr aUiaa g0o,nds;.0Pt Dnipts 0 A. 0. LIVERMON, Dentist. OFFicE-Over Kew Whithead Building Oface hours from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to o'clock, p. m. - " annTT a xtt wrmr xr n D R. J. P. WTMBERLEi, OFFICE BKJCK HOTEL, SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. D R. H.I. CLARK, OFFICE BRICK HOTEL. Main Street, Scotland Neck, N. C. y A. DUNN, ATTORNE Y-A T-L A W. Scotlahd Neck, N. 0. Practices wherever his services are eauired. K. H. SMITH. STUABT H. SMITH gMlTH & SMITH, ' , - ATTORNEY 8-AT-LAW. Staten Bld'g. over Tyler & Outterbridge Scotland Neck, N. C. - DWARD L. TRAVIb, Attorney and Connselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. fSF" Money Loaned on Farm Lands. ' CL4.TTDE KITCHIH. -A, P. KITCHIH. KITCHIN & KITCHIN, - ATTORNE YS-AT-L AW. Practice wherever services are required Office: Futreli Building. Scotland Neck, N. C. ESTABLISHED IN 1865. CHAS M-.WALSH .". Stem Ms id U WORKS, jcamore St., Petebsbubg, Va. MonumentsTombs, Cemetery Curb ing, Ac All work strictly first-:j. class and at Lowest Prices. I ALSO FTTKHI8H IROlf FEKCH, VASES, &C. Designs sent to any address free.! In writing for them ukase glio' n ft of de eawd and limit as to price. -' I Prepay Prc!htr zZL ?crk ISiiin observationsMf The trial of Earnest Haywood Raleigh little more than a month The Haywood Case. ings will be resorted to in Haywood's interest; but Col. P. A. Olds in his correspondence from Raleigh to the Charlotte Observer says that lawyers have said that no such step is at all probable. The South Carolina Legislature has declined to make an appropriation to represent that State at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904. Efforts will Carolina, at St. Louis. priated $10,000 with the provision that this amount be found in the State's treasury and that there shall be no other use for it. While it may not ap pear that either South Carolina or North Carolina would receive any direct benefits from such appropriation and the exhibit which could be made at St. Louis, we agree with the Charlotte Observer In feeling like North- Car olina ought to show up well wherever there is a contest between States as to their resources. . The Commonwealth does not wish to be considered officious concern ing the question of good roads, but hazards the chance for a little criticism How's the Time. and the roads are beginning to get hard. Now is the time to work them. As a matter of fact it does not pay to go on the roads when the rains are heavy and constant and when the mud is deep, and throw in fresh mud or dirt. This only makes the mud all the deeper. A day's work on the roads when they are in good condition will be worth much more than when they are covered with water and are very muddy. Some one will say that it would bs wrong to take hands from; the farms now while the weather is good and put the time on the roads." It does seem like it would be incon venient, but it would be economy ; and we hardly see how the practicing of economy for the whole people could be a mistake. Suppose road super visors and overseers think about it. Rev. Sam Jones writes to the .Atlanta Journal that the two "undownable and uusettieable" questions in America - t Couldn't Eill the Cat. fellow's black catv He said he took it out and killed it every night for nine nights in succession very deadand it was up every morning well and hearty. . He said he took it out the tenth night and cut its head off, and it was standing on the front steps next morning with its head in its mouth. Continuing Mr. Jones says : "The negrcrquestlon cannot settle itself any more than the Atlantic ocean can get rid of its brackiahness. It has got to be settled by being fixed and fixed right along certain lines. The negro both in his constitution and by-laws is closely allied with the whiskey ques tion. I have seen the negro corralled and marched and voted for whiskey in local option fights, until it made my heart sick ; and the very gang who droye them to the polls is the very gang that debauches them and fre quency the gang that lynches them. This country will never be what God and good men want it to be, until the negro is politically relegated and whiskey Is permanently abolished." The Windsor Ledger tells of a cutting affray between two colored boys on the streets of Windsor a few days ago. The boy who did the cutting : Hot Like Forefathers. little criminal was jailed to await results. Commenting editorially on the affair the Ledger says: "The cutting affair on our streets Saturday re minds one of the need of a curfew law. Although these boys were negroes the loafing and hanging around the streets almost all hours of night is not ' confined to that race. One of the most deplorable sights one witnesses is a group of boys perpetually hanging around town smoking cigarettes. . Little hope can be-nad for the boys allowed to do this. They grow up in utter worthiessness and from them the criminal statistics receive a large per cent. It was not-so with our forefathers. The youth was made to stay at home and study or work. It should be so now. Our parents seem either too lax or lenient with their boys. The man that - strictly attends to his own business and thereby keeps employed never gets in trouble. So it is ''with any one. A curfew law would be ol untold benefit to the town and in years to come the town would feel good results therefrom.'' The Gastonia Gazette gives the following: Interesting items about Rev. F. M. Jordan, who preached In the first Baptist church in Gastonia some A Veteran lflnlster . younger men. A pastor for the firet 20 .years of his ministry, he was an evangelist for 25 years. Then age compelled him to forego regular active labor. During his ministry he has preaohed over. North Carolina from the mountains to the seacoast, has held? meetings in two-thirds of the towns in the State, and baptized poople in every river of note in the State, and in creeks, ponds, pools, and baptisteries-in number, he eaid, beyond recollec tion about 4,000 converts in all. He is flow selling a book of his recol--lections, the proceeds of which go to maintain him in peaceable comfort In his declining years. He is tall and stalwart of frame and has something of the lion in his looks and poise. He said that he had never taken a drop of whiskey Of brandy in his life, had' never iaid a bad word that he knew of, had never used tobacco in any form,liad neyer played a card, had never tried to danced and married the first woman lie ever courted.? - PASSING EVENTS. tor the killing of Ludlow Skinner iu ago, has been postponed until July, at the request of the defense. There has been con-, siderable sarmlse that habeas corpus proceed be made to raise such a fund by private sub scription. The North Carolina Legislature ap- by offering a suggestion or two. -It begins to look like the worst of the bad weather is oyer, today are the negro question and the whiskey question, and he says they some how go together. He says they are like the was 13 years old and the one cut was 17. The cut was in the bowels and was so serious that the days ago : "Though 73 years of age, he finds it much easier to stand upstraight than some By R. R. Phelps, Principal of Drummondtown Academy, Virginia. Written for The Commonwealth. It can hardly be denied that the es tablishment of a graded school is bene ficial to the community at large, and equally true is it that the addition of high school branches is conducive J of higher education of the general public. For to send boys and girls off to pre paratcry colleges, wh&e for two years they are taught high school branches, is too expensive for the average citizen. Moreover, the rules cf colleges are too lenient for boys of that age, when with' drawn from the influence of home supervision, and in consequence the ef fect upon their character Is far from good. But were graded schools of high standard established, ,wlth easy access to the masses, not only would the great number of students who spend one or two years at college, receive the same (amoant of information at less expense, but also greater numbers would be able to enjoy this better education. But if a graded school with high school branches attached, has a form of godliness as shown above, but denies the power thereof, there is a good deal to be said in opposition to its establish ment, chief of which Is that it tends, to drive out private schools and gives no satisfactory substitute ihd keeps a great many from going to college. In the former case it is probable the private school would be more thorough, and in the latter college trailing would to a great extent atone for the insufficiency of early school work. Thus a good graded school with high school require ments is very good, while a poor one is almost worse than none. Now, there are two prominent reasons wby a graded school with high school classes wnen established in a prosper ous community, may not be an un questionable benefit. JTJbefirst isjilio lack of active co-operation or the fault of house-holders with large lamilies. This obstacle is of course irremediable, until such co-operation can be secured. The second is the lack of careful atten tion to the lower grades, which Je itself due, to the combination of several Causes. Outside of cities, it is a matter of surprise how many teachers are incom petent for their work. The sovereign remedy is the requirement of passing an examination "before election to the order. This examination, however, only supposes a knowledge of certain subjects. But knowledge is not ail that is necessary. A teacher should go on ward and upward and continue to gain information. Nor is this the only thing to be considered. Is he or she able to impart that knowledge to others? It is indisputable that there are born teach ers; but otheis can be trained to imi tate their methods so closely, that for all practical purposes they are just as good. . In fact we often find it the case that those who are supposed "just to have the knack," have acquired that knack at the expense of hours of hard study and years of careful observation. Every one of ordinary common sense can acquire the, power of imparting knowledge and city schools demand it, nor is there any reason wby it should not be universally required. To be satisfactory in general resu! teethe two things every teacher should have, are a thorough knowledge of the subject taught and a method of presenting that subject -a method at least technically correct. But no one should deceive himself with the vain hope that these two will secure for him a brilliant suc cess. There is another point to be consid ered : Unless we show interest In'our work,4t is-next kin to impossible to in spire interest in our pupils. No city teacher who hopes to attain this knowl edge would think of going to school without having prepared the lesson for each class "out-lined it," as they tech nically say. Why 'should not the same FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for sixty years by millions of mothers lor their children while. teeth ing, with perfect success. Jt soothes the child, softens the gums, alias all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best tremedy for Diarrhoea. It wjU relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. Sold by Druggists in ever part of .the world; Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Soothing 8yrup, and take no , other Prove That Old Cases of Chronic Ca tarrh can be Cured. A Medicine That Will Cure Cases of Catarrh - of Long Standing .De serves a Very High Place in the Annals of Medical Discovery. Such a Medicine is Peruna. THOUSANDS of testimonials are pouring in every day of old cases of chronic catarrh that have re sisted all treatment for years, being promptly and permanently cured by Peruna. These reports do not all come from obscure places, signed by obscure peo ple. A large proportion of these letters are written by men and women promi nent in business and professional cir cles and many of them well kiown from ocean do ocean. . "Colonel John Franklin Waters occu pies a prominent position among the leading trial lawyers of Chicago. He has probably obtained more verdicts against corporations in suits for personal injuries than any man of his age in the United States, and during his practice of over fifteen years he has not lost a single case in the Supreme' Courts of Illinois and Missouri. He is a" hard worker and has the energy of four men. For a number of years he had been afflicted with chronic catarrh and hav ing recently been thoroughly cured of his old affection, an interview was ob tained with him by one of our reporters in which he gave the following state ment to the public: Chicago, III., Aug. 6, 1900. The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O. : ; aeatlemea-"tt gives me great pleasure to testify to the merits of much a worthy remedy for catarrh as your Peruna. I had suffered for a number of years from this' very dlt mimiiCtilJa dls& mnd Jd tried m.nX so-called remedies, hut utnfl f used Peruna none had the desired effect. I feel that lam perfectly cured and can cheerfully recommend Peruna to any one suffering from catarrh.' JOHN P. WATERS, 120E. Randolph St., Chicago, lit. Another ease equally well-known in Chicago, is reported through a letter from a veteran Railroad man. : be asked of teachers in more thinly settled communities when the same salaries are given? But even were money and requirement left out, virtue here finds its own reward in the dimin ished exertion necessary to teach. Con fidence with these rules know your eubject, have a method, and show at least -mechanical Interest should be necessary to secure a teacher in any position. But there is another way ot snowing interest, which while it would be un reasonable to require, should be earn estly urged upon every one. This is the purchase and use of such maga zines as will keep their readers abreast of the times and familiar with the best thoughts on. teaching. ' The preacher who would haye and retain great In fluence and power, must be up with the progress of thought in everything ; the best physicians must be cognizant of every new fact In bis profession and acquainted with discussions of his kind of work, as seen in medical journals. In fact, tbe influential In every pro fession, art and skilled trade must have knowledge of the thoughts of others in that profession or trade. Or again we may regard magazines as tools with which to work, and to do good - work every laborer must have good tools.' The economic value, of these tools I shall not attempt to main tain in my own words, but shall merely quote from a prominent writer on ped agogy, in whose opinion I heartily concur: . - . '"How do yon ever keep up your ex pense for all these things F asked Mr. Lowell. 'I should think that it would take an unlimited purse to buy so many magarineeC';;"--"'---' '-'I-'-' :4- Ob, I have never found that I could keep taking things out of a cup board without bavins: it sometime be come bare, like Mother Hubbard's. My books, etc., are my tools, and a cer tain part of my salary most go toward what will improve me, or I will soon lose my salary I The proportion is small, very, and yet the personal loss would be very great, if I did otherwise.' " J - v To this I may add that teachers will also find that the increased ease with which they do their work, when they have and. use the 'booki, etcJ," will further: jes&fy their porfAaseIt is lost a wetl - to BMBd moMt oa books .1 All MM. mlfltflS " -'V'"'.. ' .There e often the oiot made A ( v&I y: tssrin,MiFi powDERsiyzyJ . i . i . i -Mitum. Dlarrho, Dysentery and the Bowel Troubles of Children of I ' " ;.dm Direction. Regulates the Bowels, Strengthens the Child and MAKES t 7lASY. Cures Eruptions and Sores. Colic. Hive-f "'hr-uih. Removes ants Worms. TkKTNINA Counteracts and ''..mn Til wrltii..--" heat won Teething Children, end cents toC. l. MOFFETT. Mfc -.uiiuriBU put twenty four year 8, connected with the Postoffice Department for six years, the Police Department for six years, and at pres J. H. Lyons. ent connected with the Grand Trunk railroad, had a similar case. He is a thing. Numoen of the best teachers agree that mediumly large classes, say thirty or forty, are in many respects easier to teach than very small ones, while over seventy is not a serious draw-back. In substantiation of this, I quote from a teacher of experience, Mr. S E. Thomas : "The manner, of conducting a read ing cla?s so as to bring out tbe princi ples already mentioned, is probably of the most importance. . Tbe larger tbe reading class the more interest there will be in it; It is not necessary that each member of the class reads every day," etc. - "The chief trouble is not the number in theclass but the number of classes and the length of time devoted to each. The presence of these" evils ts usually the result of poor organisation or scare ity of teachers. The latter is of course dependent on tbe amount of money and only a full treasury can prevent it, but the former may, be remedied by a definite course mapped out to attain a Kiyen definite result viz., prepare graduates to enter a university or start in life. To secure this organization is the province of the high school, bat unless the country high school goes deeper and further eliminates tbe evils in its own substratum, the insecurity of its foundation justifies its destruction and the establishment of preparatory colleges upon its ruins. How it is in England. Youth's Companion. ' : By a law which nent into effect lu England dn January .1st, any person found drunk and incapable of taking care3 of himself in a public place or on any licensed premises may be arrested, and punished by fine or imprisonment or both. Then If he aucceeds in buy- ingany liquor within three years alter bis conviction, or if any one treats bim to liquor, both lie and the person from whom be obtains the drink are liable to fine. Under the old law he was ex empt from arrest unless he was disord erly as well as drunk. Vh U- -i. ; The prohibition against providing liquor to a convicted drunkard or a per son already intoxicated applies not only to saloons, but; to social clubH of the highest, standing. It places the rich drunkard on the same plane with the poorme. The law alas ansamea that the . pretenee of - . Ctirnhken person ccr-A. . . . T ., , ... 'For twenty years I suffered with chronic catarrh but thanks to Peruna I am now entirely cured. " It afford me rourb ;jieitftur t make a statement in behalf of your meritorious remedy, Peruna. I have umhI same for catarrh and have found it to be all you olaim for it. I had suffered for twenty years. I cheerfully recommend Peruna to anyone suffering from catarrh, as I believe that, as In my case, it will prove a sure cure." Captain John II. Lyons. Address The Parana ModiciocTCo., of Columbus, Ohio, for instructive frtm literature on catarrh. saloon-keeper must prove tbe contrary or suffer the penalty provided. Thus the accueed saloon-keeper is assumed to be guilty until he proves he himself innocent, reversing tbe usual rules. As drunkenness is made a punishable offense, It is regarded as sufficient ground for the separation of husbands and wives, and the law makes elabor ate provisions for tbe relief ol the wives or husbands of convicted drunkards, through separate maintalnanco. The provisions of the new law are much more stringent than any that have ever been tried iu England, and the effect of tbe enforcement of them . will be watched closely by all who are interested in tbe supprecsioh of tbe evil of intoxicating drink. $100 REWARD f 100. The readers of this piper 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'is the only positive cure, known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requites a con stitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh St..M. fa tutaii in ofnollt if inf. Himftlv upon the blood and mucous rnrfaces of the system, thereby destroying tbe foundation of the disease, and giving the patient" strength by building up tbe constitution and nesting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have " ho much faith in its curative powers, for any caee that it foils to core. Send for list of testimonials. Addrees, F. J. Obenney & Co.. Tole do, O. Sold bv drueralsts. 7uc. Hall's Family fills are the bet. .First Student I hear that your father is quite a writer. Second stu dent He is all that. First Student Don't say ! What do you consider bis best book ? Second Studentr-Hi check book. Chicago News. . os . A SWEET BREATH is a never tailing sign of a healthy .' stomach. When the breath is bid 1 Fie -stomach is out of order. There is no remedy in the world equal to Kxlol Dyspepsia Cure for curiug iudigestioij, dyyepepeia and all stomach disorders. Mrs, Mary 8. Crick, of White Plains, Ky., writes : I bsve been a dyrpepiie. -fir years tried 'l klndu f remedisv bm cuniiiiued to grow ore, - By the use of Kodol I tgan to improve at nnrp. and af'er lakiutr a few bottle am fudjr reu.Htd Hi . weight, lesltb and -stmnetn and rn eat n baievar I like." Kudid digesu what jnu eat nod makes i rti-Mcb aweet. rr.eVj by, E. T. '