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H.I.CLARK, OFFICE BRICK HOTEL. Main Street, Scotland Neck, N. C. i W If A. DUNN, ATTORNE Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, N.- C. Practices wherever his services are emuired. - R. H. SMITH. STTJART H. SMITH JJM1TH & SMITH, A TTORNE YS-A T-LA TP. Staten Bld'g. over Tyler & Outterbridge Scotland Neck, N. C. DWARD L. TRAVIb, Attorney and Counselor at Law, HALilJTAA, a. J. Money Loaned on Farm Lands. CLAUDE KITCHIS. A P. KITCHIN KITCHItf & K1TCHIN, - ATTORNE YS-AT-L AW.. Practice wherever services are required Office : Futrell Building. Scotland Neck, N. C. - ESTABLISHED IN 1865. CHAS' M WALSH Ska 1Mb d ."fcato - WORKS, Monuments, Tombs; Cemetery Curb ing, Ac. AU work-trlctly' first- class ana at Liowesi mow. f i also ruRinsH IBOH , ' FEKCO. VASES. &C. I Designs sent to any address tree.- J writing for them please give sge.of da eased and limit as to tniee.: - " : 'V f f I r4 jlDITOIS J,E OBSERVATIONS OF The News and Observer of some days ago gave the following interesting editorial Sf tide concerning a bill introduced in Congress by Senator Sim Consns of 1790. tice Clark, editor of our State Records, Senator Simmons .introduced a bill in Congress to procure copy of the names of heads of families in this State as reported in the census of 1790. He succeeded in getting the bill passed. Becretary of the Interior Hitchcock writes Judge Clark that the North 1 CaroTiha census ol 1790 is In two large folio volumes ; and he Ja having it copied and will send it to him very soon. It will be printed in the volume of State Records. Tbe Secretary, says it is complete except that the coun ties of Orange, Granville and Caswell are missing. Judge . Clark will have search oo ada in the archives of those counties for the duplicate roll, and if that cannot be had will try to supply the defect from the list of tax-payers. In 1790 Caswell included what is now Ferson county, Granville embraced most of Vance, and Orange Included Alamance and nearly all of Durham." The Raleigh Times muses somewhat as follows on the comments passed upon the merits and chances ot Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Bryan as president- Neither One a Chance, harsh criticisms on Mr. W. J. Bryan. Some want him hypnotized and kept so until after the convention. One to-day suggested, if he could in some way get a case of lock-jaw the prospects of the Democratic party would be brightened.1 It is known to a few people that this writer never fancied Mr. Bryan. We never thought he was the sort of man to be Presi dent of the United States, and in this we have never had, and never-expect to have, any reason to change our mind. But we have never doubted that Mr. Bryan was an upright, well-meaning man acd inno way deserying the hard things some of the papers say of him. There is no probability of his being a candidate any mere than there is of Mr. Cleveland. Neither one has the remotest chance of any such distinction. Both of these gentlemen would have to modiiy their previous platforms to be acceptable to the vo ters of North Carolina." - In yiew of some articles that have appeared of late in some North Caro lina papers that gave them a decided hue of "yellow," some papers are dis ' --cussing vigorously what ought to go into print - .. Rnd WQat ought not , The Greenville Reflector says some things with emphasis, among them the following : "We must confess that we are pained to note the streak of yellow which appears to haye attached i'self to North Carolina journalism, showing up all too fre quently, like the alternate layers of chocolate in a cake. Time was, we re member, when an editor, after considering the adyisability o! publishing an article ot a doubtful nature, put the question to himself, 'would I like my wife or daughter to read this?' and if his conscience answered in the negative, it also forbade him to place before other people's wives and , daughters that which would bring a shameful flush to the cheeks of his own. How different is the newspaper policy of to-day ! At least, the poli cy of one or two well known and influential journals. Stories reeking with the sordid details of crime, the bestialities of jaan and the shame of woman, stare at us in big black headlines." , When one hears detailed how rapidly and wonderfully the lightning cal culator can compute results. in mathematical problems, one is sometimes Calculated to Death. sideration the fact that the lightning calculator is living so much more rapidly than ordinary men that he dies of old age, or work or worry at thirty, we fall back to the preference of a sldvir, plodding lite, and are will ing to blunder along clumsily and count out our numbers much like chil dren. These reflections were induced by reading the following news item from the Indianapolis SentiueL: "Trenton, N. J. William Vallance, the famous lightning calculator, who could do any sum in mathematical calcu lation mentally and with but an instant's hesitation, is dead, aged thirty years. About a week ago he was taken to the state hospital suffering from a severe mental strain, believed to be the result of his work with figures.. Vallance could duplicate the feats. of any of the lightning calculators and then beat them all byBtating instantly any desired date in history. He could not tell how he Knew history, but he would rattle off fact after fact without ever making a mistake. He could give immediate answer to such arithmetical questions as multiply 389,487 by 4,641. Feats in algebra were his delight." Ex-President Cleveland made a speech in New York a few nights ago Which has attracted much attention throughout the country. He spoke as Northern man to Northern men, and was Cleveland on the Nesro. very csiaerate of ihe South in what be said. We quote a few sentences : "I do not know how it may be with " other Northern friends of the negro, but lb aye faith in the honor and sincerity of the respectable white people of the South in their relations with the ne gro and his improvement and. well being. They do not behoye in the so cial equality of the races and they make no false . pretence in regard to it. That this does not grow of hatred of the negro is very plain. It seems to me that there is abundant sentiment and abundant behavior among the Southern whites toward the negroes to make us doubt the Justice of charg ing this denial of social equality to prejudice, as we usually understand the word. Perhaps it is born of something so much deeper and more im periQus than prejudice as to amount to a racial instinct. Whatever it is, let us remember that it has condoned the negro's share in the humiliation and spoliation of the white men of the South during the saturnalia of re construction days, and has allowed a kindly feeling for the negro to serve the time when the South was deluged by a perilous flood of indiscriminate, unintelligent and Mind negro suffrage. Whatever It is, let us-try to be tol erant and considerate of the feelings and even the prejudice of racial in stinct of our white countrymen of the South, who, In the solution of the negro problem, must, amid their own surroundings, bear the heat "of ; the ggyfaas stager unaer wn wwijsu "f"" "r ISURE ji OU 1S , PASSING EVENTS. mons at the suggestion of Chief Justice Walter Clark: "Last year, at the request ol Chief Jus tial possibilities : "We regret to note in quite a number of our exchanges the disposition to pass inclined to envy said lightning calculator his wonderful powers. But when we take into con Spring Time. There's a hazy, laay, daisy sort o feelin's in the sir, An' the bees will eoon be buzzin' - through the country everywhere ; An' a feller feels lik dreaming, for the air is full o' dreams, An' he's all the time a-schemin' for the fine fish in the streams 1 You can almost hear the muBic of the dove wings as they pass," An' see the winds that ripple o'er the roses an' the grass; An' in cool an' dreaiy meadows, an' in far an' shaded dls, The singing o' the moc-.ktfc1, lirds ihe V cattle with their bells ! : It is just a dream of springtime? Is she with us for to stay ? Have the back-blown curls of April brushed the icy snows away? Hard to tell you ! But I'm listenin' to the brown bees everywhere, An' a hazy, lazy, daisy sorter feelin's in the air ! Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Consti tution. . ...... United States Leads the World In - Wealth, ' - Atlanta Constitution. According to some .Calculations made by the Chicago Inter-Ocean, bused on an article by Eugene, Parsons in Gun- ter's Magazine for April, the United States has nearly one-fourth of the world's wealth. The total for the1 entire world is placed at $400,000,000,000, of which the United States in 1902 had $94,300 000,000, showing that this Is the rich est nation on the globe. It is also shown that the wealth of the United States is nearly double that of Great Britain and almost as much as the combined wealth of Great Britain and France. According to the reports or estimates of wealth in tho several nations, it ap pears that Great Britain, which is put down as the richest country in Europe, has property and money amounting to $59,000,000,000; ''or $1,442 for every person. France comes next among the Eu ropean nations with $58,000,000,000 in money and property, or $1,257 for eve ry person, with $6,000,000,000 more lent in Europe, Asia, Africa and Amer ica. Germany is the third nation ot Eu rope in point of wealth, her total being $40,000,000,000, or $709 for every per son, with $8,000,000,000 more lent or invested abroad. Russia comes fourth, with $32,000,000,000. According to these same authorities the United States has wealth of $1,235 per person, Austria has $1,229, Den mark $1,105, Canada $980, and Hol land $878 per person. Among all the nations the percentage of debt to wealth is lowest in the United States The British debt per person is $89, the French $148, the German $55, the Russian $32, the Canadian $50, while the debt per person in the United States is only $12. The national debt of the United States is $915,370,000,- while that o Great Britain it $3,688,528,252, that of France $5,718,360,198. and that of Germany $3,093,638,400. From this it is shown that the Unit ed States not only has the largest wealth of any nation ol the world, but ak-o the smallest public debt. With these figures before us it is nOt to be wondered at that the other na tions of the world look with envy upon the American republic tbe greatest in wealth, as in all other thing'. No Trouble As to His Itame. .Chicago Tribune: AI:er having called nine or ten times the man with the bill was fortunate enough to find his victim in. "This. is Mr. ArduD. isn't it?" he said, ., - : "Yes." v "Orville Ardup?" 7 "Yee. You seem to know my name all right." "Ob, I remember your name wel enough. It's your face , that generally escapes me." FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for sixty years by millions o: mothers tor their children while teeth ine. with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, alias al pain, cures wind colic, and is the best tremedy for Diarrhoea. It will 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 oothiog Syrup, and take"; no - other -V'iJ, M "H ' I GOOD ROADS. A Point of History. New York Tribune. No nation has yet achieved perma nent renown 'without good roads, or ever built them and regretted it after wards. No community in possession of good roads would be wi'ling to sur render them upon the repayment of their cost and maintenance. Ol all the expenditures made by-aggregated bodies or by Government agencies, while it may not be the least felt, it produces the greatest good and the greatest satisfaction to the greatest numbsr. Everybody uses good roads ; the millionaire and the beggar, the black and the white, the lame and the blind, women and children all enjoy and participate in the advantages and blessings of good roads. They are the morning star of progress ; they are the ountain-hearfs of trade and commerce ; tbey are the avenues over which pass the main agencies for the dissemina tion of knowledge and the increase of intelligence, as well as the enjoyments' of social intercourse in rural life. Tbey provide the means for the performance of public duty, of reaching local mar kets, or shopping points on the rail ways. They serve mere country pec- pic la the aggregate than the railroads themselves. The rapid extension of the rural free delivery system, now covering 300,000 square milsa and destined in the near future to be extended to the 40,000.000 people liviug in the rural districts, makes good roads a necessity. Why should the United States, thai has attained supremacy over all other nations in wealth and in a world wide influence in commerce and diplomacy, hesitate to enter upon a work that will bind its citizens to it with a loyalty ex ceeding the loyalty of the people of any other nation whatever? Why hesitate to do that which every person desires to be done in some way? Why hesitate when good roads are the most important factors in carrying out the wise provision for increasing the intel ligence of its citizens through rural free delivery? No other highly civil ized nation on earth has so many bad roads as the United States. England, France, Germany, Spain, Italy all have good roads. This government belongs to the peo ple. They instituted it forathelr own welfare. They are the rulers. Con- gres3 is but one of the agencies they have created to provide for their wants and to execute their will. There is no constitutional barrier to the building of roads. The same clause in the con stitution that authorizes the establish ment of postoffices authorizes the es tablishment of post-roads. These two constitutional bestowments are. co-or dinate branches, created for , the ac complishment of tbe same great end ; that is, the convenience and happiness of the people. But aside from the ne cessity of building good highways for the better distribution of the mails through rural districts, it should be borne in mind that the agricultural classes, while doing more to sustain the credit of tbe government and tbe financial strength of its people than all other classes combined, have had tbe smallest appropriations made for their immediate benefit. The urban population has long been provided, at the expense of the government, with messengers for tbe delivery of mail. The shipping interests have had the harbors and rivers improved to expe dite their business. The cities nave been provided with postoffice buildings, the architectural beauty and cost of which surpass those ot any other na tion. Railroads have made use of the credit of the government. " Iron mas ters haye depended upon the goyern- mimt' to construct great locks and dams tor facilitating the assembling oi the materials at cheap rates for making iron. The tariff laws have been shaped t.n hnnp.fi t the manufacturers. No sane man objects to the majority of such nnnrnnnations. Thev are needed to rtr c . : r . - foster and increase the commerce o; the nation. Bat are they more im portant to the great mass of th&citi zehs than good roads through the country ? Such roads cheapen food and clothing, extend trade, make many commodities ' valuable that are value less without them, save time, and, in deed, improve the opportunities every citizen, whether be lives in the town, or country or is a sailor on the A THOUGHTFUL MAN. f M. Austin 'ot Winchester, Ind Wiaa what to do fn the hour of need. His wife had such an unusual case of stomach and liver trouble, physicians c iuld net help her. He thought of and Vfed-Dr. King's New Life Pills ana she g t reltef as.ccseand was finrily A Oy tt B. T, T7kttLVi SUFFERED THREE YEARS. CATARRH OF STOMACH. ' JfKV Miss Evelyn Morse writes from 651 "I suffered tor nearly three years with catarrh of the stomcch which no medicine seemed to relieve, until a Mend advised me to try Peruna. Although skeptical, I tried It, and found It helped me within the first week. I kept tak ing it for three months, and am pleased to say that It cured me entirely, and I have had no symptoms of Its return, l EVELYN MORSE. Adia Brittain, of Sekitan, O., writes : "After using your wonderful Peruna three months, I have had great reiiei. I had continual heaviness in my stom ach, was bilious, and had fainting spells, but they all have left me since using Peruna. I can now get around and do my housework, and think Peruna the greatest medicine l eyer useo. iu Orittain. Mrs. Lizzie Blevina, 102 Boliver street, Cleveland, Ohio, writes: "I candidly feel Peruna was tne means wide ocaan. Good roads through the rural districts would relieve the con gestion ot population in the great cities. Country life, with its moral influences, would be made attractive and pleasant. The dens of vice in the cities would be deprived of much of their malign in fluence. Homes would be sought after by thousands who now live in squalor in tenement bouses in tbe cities. In short, through government aid in the establishment of good roads, every phase and every feature of business social and educational life would be mmeasurably advanced. Using Tar ca Beads. Selected. Our consul at Lucerne, Switzerland, has recently made a report on a meth od which has been adopted in southern France of oiling or tarring tbe roads for tbe purpose of laying dust, ears tbe Boston Herald. The process adopted is to take a well rounded macadam ized road and to wash and brush it on tbe day before the tarring operation to tbe extent of lay ing'bare the macadam. After all trace of humidity has disap peared the tar, heated by a traveling furnace, is sprinkled over the road by a fan-shaped nozzle from a tank con taining about fifty gallons. When the tar has begun to cool, fine sand is scat tered over the part of the road thus treated, and the street is closed to traf fic for a few days. Experiments made in southern France and Switzerland of thus treating macadamized roadway are eaid to have proved wonderfully satisfactory. The tarred surface isnot slippery, and yet it is so hard that the borws'. hoofs leave no trace in it, while the tar has not been observed to soften in the hot test weather. Rainstorms cause - no damage The water washes off the surface without making it slirpery and runs away rapidly without soaking into the roai. : The cost in France for the materials in this form of road treatment, with the price of tar reckoned at $9.65 per ton, is not much over 1 cent per square yard, and it is evident that a road pro tected by an impenetrable surface from humidity and tbe grinding action ot horses' hoots is fekely to last much longer than where these two destruc tive forces are given full play. DR. WIMBERLEYS CERTIF1 . . .. CATE. : This is. to certify that I' have used Hancock's Liquid Sulphur in my prac tioe and haye tested it sufficiently to know it to be a remedy of great merit. Have need it with curative; results in t-t nnclaer ebe wocli benefit. Adams Street, Minneapolis, Minn., as am omy nw gmu w " of saving my life, for I suffered for months from catarrh of tho Btomaeh. Two bottles of Peruna cured me." Mrs. Lizzie Blevins. If you do not derive prompt and satis factory results from tho use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Ilartman, giving a full statement of your caso and ha will be pleased to give yon his valuable ad vice gratis. Address Dr. Ilartman, President oJ The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. Puzzled Conductor. Richmond News Leader. "I stacked up against the toughett proposition of my life last Sunday," said Captain James T. Bailey, of the Chesapeake and Ohio passengjr depart ment whose run is from this city to Newport News, and who is one ol tho best-known conductors who ever pulled a bell cord. "In the parlor car, when I took charge of the train lor Newport News, there were three colored person cs I thought, who had tickets. I began to go through the car, and when I got to where the negroes were eeated I lound that there were tour of them rather, there were two other. Christine, the colored twine, was in lha car. She is one woman, with two heads, several feet and one body- She or they naa one ticket, while the other two colored people bad a ticket each. I asked for a fourth ticket, but the double woman said it I could give them or ber a seat she or ihny would produce a second tickt t. I c!id not know what to do. I could not put off one without putting off the one of br who had given me a ticket, and theie would have been a suit against the company for a large sum. "What did I do? What could I do? Why, I just had to let her or them ride for three tickets, and take chances of having tlie company coll me-to ac count. But I cannot get it out of my head that I have been buncoed, for there were four heads and the correct number of hands and leet to correspond with well regulated people I hope I will never have another case like that as long as I live, for I worried a grent deal. That is the only thing Inat His, ever bothered me since I haye been on the road." -'- $100 REWARD $100. The readers of this paper will ha pleased to learn that there is at le.ixt one dreaded disease that science ha? been able to cure In all its stage., and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cur; is tbe only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, rr.quires a con stitutional treatment. Halls (;tnti Cure is taken internally .acting dirre'ly upon the blood and mucous rorfaces of tbe system, thereby ctestroyiug the foundation of the diseape, and giving tbe patient strength by building rp the constitution and aspistina nature m doing its work. Tbe proprietors bve so much faith in its curative power-, that tbey offer One Hundred Dollais. for any case that it fails. to cure. Send for list of testimonials. :. Address, F, J. Chenney & Co.. Tole- ----
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