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TO INCREASE PROSPERITY.
EVERY MAN HIS OWN HERO,
If there is anytliing in the world
Against which I should protest from
the risiug of the sun to the going
down thereof, it is against being
told, in season and out, that we are
miserable sinners. Carping critics,
you know, ever since that Spring
morning when things went a bit
wrong in the Garden of Eden, have
had a most emphatic, as well as a
disagreeable way of telling us that
we mortals are poor affairs at best,
that we ate made of the commonest
of mud, that we ai’e capable of
every meaness under the sun, and
that it is only because of God’t in
effable goodness that we are permit
ted to live at all. It is a very old
preachment, this, and I am not quite
sure but what its accumulative effect
upon mankind during the ages is re
sponsible for a good deal of the mis
ery that exists today.
Miseiable sinners all! Well per
haps. we aro. Whoever with author
ity said that man was created per
fect! What single evidence of proof
have we that it was ever intended
that man should be created perfeetl
Why is it not just as reasonable to
suppose that man was created im
perfect that he might labor to make
himself perfect?
Miserable sinners all! Well, if it
will help anyone, let us humbly ac
knowledge ourselves such, but pray,
let me turn the shield for you so that
you can see the other side, the side
with the golden syjibols. We have
acknowledged uur evil; now I insisc
that wc acknowledge also that which
is good in us. It only wants finding
out, that is all. Wa are not as com-
mouplaco as some would have us
believe. There aro just as many
heroes among us as any epoch of
history can boast. Give your man
the right full chance and see if he
doesn^t make a glorious thing o^ it.
The trouble is, times have changed
and the manifestations of heroism
have had to change in consequence.
There are no more crusades to the
Holy Land for a twentieth century
Richard the Lion-Hearted to achieve
fame in, and there are no more
-2uests for the Holy Grail for a mod
ern Sir Galahad to underta,ke. The
Knights of the Round 'Table and
their gallant leader Kin^ Arthur,
are heroes of a romantic past, and
turreted castles with languishing
maidens who require to be rt^scued,
are not to be found on the man as it
is today. The world has moved on
somewhat, civilization is made up
differently, and men in these times
spend not their days in riding abroad
on milk white charges in search of
adventures and opportunities for
heroic deeds. And because it is
peace not war that chiefly concerns
mankind in this age, our heroes in
consequence are heroes of peace
and not of war.
The world is full of heroes of
peace. Our country is full of them,
our city is full of them, and I dare
say, if you could look behind the
scenes you would discover one or
two of them living on the same
street with yourself. Only don’t
look for your hero in the high places
where pomp and power dwells, or at
the head of armies that march by to
martial music, or in chains like mar
tyrs to a great cause. Our heroes
today pass us clad in homespun,
plain men and women like you and
I. They are fighting as good a fight
as ever warrior did of old, and
theirs shall be the reward. 1 count
every man his own hero and the
good deed which you do humbly in
your cottage today is equal in value
on the Great Record Book above,
with any renowned exploit of a Joan
of Arc, or a Robert Bruce, or a
Florence Nightingale or a Duke of
Wellington.
Miserable sinners all. I doubt it.
We are better fellovs than 'we give
ourselves credit for b^ing. If there
I3 much mud iu us, there is also
more gold, and if sometimes we do
that which we ought not to do, let us
remember that we also, more fre
quently, do those things whieh we
ought to do. And because of- this
there is much hope for us.—Brown
Book of Boston.
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TAKING LIFE TOO SEROUStY.
Did it ever occur to yon, I want to
ask, taatthe world and his wife are
are doing their housekeeping better
than they did it ever before? Are
they not making the life lighter and
easier for us than they did for our
great grand parents? Just fancy
for a moment what a really decent
establishment they keep. In the
first place you don’t have any paint
ed faced Indians prowling around
your house to relieve you of your
scalp, as was the situation of our
Puritan ancesters. In the second
place you are not compelled to order
your clothes from London, asihe co
lonial calvaliers did, which is a con
sideration. Thirdly, you can travel
from the Atlantic to the Pacific for
two cents a mile, which George
Washington, great as he was, could
not do, and fourthly, if you are com
mercially clever enough you can
command a salary of a million dol
lars a year, a sum the like of which
John Alden could never have h-jped
to lay at the feet of young Priscilla
Mullens. Fifthly, at the breakfast
table each morning you can read all
that happened the globe over the
day before, a thing which would
turn Ben Franklin green with enyy,
and sixthly, if you choose, you can
love your neighbor as yourself,
which the early settlers, from lack
of neighbors were obliged to leaye
undone. I might thus go on up to
the fifty-thirdly and then only have
told half the blessings we enjoy over
our forebears. It all seems to re
solve itself into a button and a bell.
You press the one or you ring the
other and beh old the earth’s efforts
are brought to your door. Which
unmistakable is pretty good house
keeping, when you come to think of
it. No trouble, no worry, no exces
sive toil; everything ready at hand.
The World and his Wife have cer
tainly done things up brown. The
pleasure and the ease should all be
ours.
And now where does the moral
come in? Here—that the easier life
is made for us the harder we take it.
Two hundred years ago on the spot
where you stand, men faced real
dangers red-skins, wild animals and
the hardships of the pioneer life con-
frontfid them at every turn. Death
and disaster wei’e their constant com
panions. Yet did these men prove
cowards, or allow themselves to be
always unhappy because of their per
ils? Today we think the world is
about to fall on their heads if any
thing goes greatly amiss. With a
policeman at evry corner and a sher
iff within call we consider ourselves
the prey of every misfortune. In
our stone-fronted and comfort filled
homes we'dehberately set to work
to make tragedies of our trifles. A
single case of small pox in Philadel-
phil sends all New York in a run to
the doctors for vaccine treatment,
and the inability to secure coveted
bargain at the deapartment store
causes the light of a woman’s life to
go out for that day. The Pilgrim of
1650, after two months’ buffeting on
the seas with scurvey and shipwreck
impending hourly, counted himself
extremely lucky to reach land at all;
your trans Atlantic traveler of 1905
considers himself illused indeed if the
steward on a short, safe, five-day
voyage so much as brings him anov-
er rare steak once. So runs the
world to trouble of its own seeking.
Why take it all so seriously?
What if occasionally, like Jack and
Jill, you do tumble down and spill
your happiness. The hill is still
there, the pail is close at hand, and
there is always more water to be bad
at the top. Why not climb the hilf
again, refill the pail, and carry it
more carefully next time? Methinks
that would be the better way.—
Brown Book of Boston.
People who are purchasers in the
markets of the world cannot possibly
enjoy the same degree of prosperity
as is the portion of those who raise
products that command a ready sale,
or who manufacture articles of gen
eral utility in demand by less enter
prising neighbors.
We buy a Western made baggy or
wagon that would fall apart in
twelve months were it not for the
paint, instead of paying our home
workmen a f€w dollars more for a
vehicle that will last us a life time
and then be of service to our young
est boy ^hen he commences farming
on his own account.
We order furniture made in the
northwest that is chiefly worm-holes
putty and cheap paint, while valu
able timber rots in our forests and
our workmen talk politics, fish and
shoot craps.
We sell cotton at $40 a bale and
buy.it back in the shape of dry goods
at prices ranging from $200 to $500
per bale, and then lie awake at
nights wondering if a cotton factory
will pay.
We buy our dress goods from
some rich Northern firm and then
give our local merchants a lot of
fool advice as to the best method of
conducting a 10 x 12 department
store in a 6 X 8 town.
We lose a day going to town to
buy an axe helve made in New York,
instead of taking iialf an hour in
making one from native timder that
will last a lifetime.
We pay big prices for dirt with
fancy scientific names to put on the
best land in the country, instead
of making earnest efforts to secure
rich home made manure.
We buy baled hay from Western
farmers and pay the freight, instead
of raising our own forage.
We make the poorest kind of
grease, call it butter, then wonder
why town people prefer oleomarga
rine at 30 cents a pound.
We support any paper except the
one published in our own town, and
bold up our hands in holy horroa
when informed that the local editor
feeds his kids on green persimmons
in order to pucker up their little
stomachs in so as to reduce their
carrying capacity.
We support everybody except our
neighbors; we baild up other towns
rather than our own; we forget that
when we send money out of town
that it is gone forever. Keep it at
home and a portion of it will surely
return to you again.
We have a prosperous people in
spite of our poverty-induing ftiethods
Let us get down to solid, communtfy'
building methods. Patronize home
people first, last and all the time; by
so doing you render them willing
and able to help you in return.
Fifty cents paid to the humble ne
gro who sawes your wood does the
community more real good than ten
dollars spent in New York tor a
dress pattern. — Goldsboro Adver
tiser.
STAND LIKE A STONE WALL.
Between your children and the
tortures of itching and burning ecze
ma, scaldhead or other skin diseases.
—How? why by using Bucklen’s
Arnica Salve, eai:th’s greatest healer.
Quickest cure for Ulcers, Fever
Sores, Salt Rheum, Cats, Burns or
Bruises. Intallible for Piles. 25c
at Jno. L. Bailey & Co’s.
THOEOUGH TBAtHINO NEJiD
SD.
(Lumberton Argus.)
Under the above caption the New*
and Observer has published a most
sensible article from the pen of Mr.
Thos H. Battle, chairman of the
Rocky Mount school board.
This is the eontention of the
writer, both as a teacher and an ed
itor. We are not afraid to make the
assertion that not one in ten of
the pupils in Robeson county who
have laid aside snelling, reading,
grammar and geography are at all
proficient in either. While in the
matter of arithmetic there is not
mere than one in a hundred who can
pass an examinatiofi with a grade of
70 per cent, on Sandford’s Common
School Asithmetic.
Against such conditions.reinforced
by others that invariably accompa
ny a low state of scholarship, we
have been struggling. If we have
not yet succeeded in introdncing a
period of thorough work on the part
of the whole school, the school has
at least, made to understand two
things—what thoroughness means,
and that we will have work or make
it uncomfortable for the idler.
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THE LESSON OF INDUSTRY .
There are some misguided par
ents in this world. They send their
children to school with the one aim
in view to educate them, never
dreaming that education of book
learning alone does not acomplish
much. The writer once heard ^
mother tell her boy that she wanted
him to have an education so he
could make his living easier. A boy
educated with that purpose in view
will not be benefitted by an educa
tion. The boy when he enters school
especially the higher institutions of
learning, must be given to under
stand that education dees not fit a
man for idleness, but industry.
That he may more fully understand
his duty and be able to do it in a more
satisfactory manner both to himself
and saciety in general. Then, too,
he should be given to understand
that all labor is honorable. Teach
ers often 'overlook this point while
hey instcnct the boy. A boy that
is not industrious from childhood up
will never amount to much, educa
tion or no education.-Exchange.
JUDGE JACOB BATTLE.
All the signs point to the nominar
tion of Judge Jacob Battle as Judge
of the Superior Court for the 4th dis
trict.
While serving out the nnexpired
terra of Judge H. 6. Connor in 1895-
96. Judge Battle showed he was of
the judicial temperament and learn
ed in the law. He is painstaking,
studious, uniformly polite and clear
headed—the essentials of a good
Judsre.
Not only onr county pride induces
us to wish for his nomination, but
his emient fitness for the position
shoinld cause everyone in the State
to desire it. —Rocky Mount Motor.
Ex-Judge H. G. Connor, of Wil
son, president of the Noi’th Carolina
Historical Society has accepted an
invitation to deliver an address for
the unveiling of a commemorative,
tablet at the ruins of old St. Philip's
church, on the Cape Fear river,
upon the occasion of the annual pil
grimage thither of the North Caro
lina Society of the Colonial Dames
of America on May Gth.
HOLDS UP A CONGRESSMAN.
“At the end of the campaign,'
writes Champ Clark, Missou ri’s bril
liant congressman, “from overwork;
lM>rvofs tension, loss of sleep and
coHstant speaking I had about utter
ly It seemed that all the
organs tll^ my body wore out of order
but three ^tlea of Electric Bitters
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druggist’s counter. “Over-wqrked
run-down men and weak, sickly
women gain splendid health and
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Train on the Scotland Neck Branch
Road leaves Weldon 3 15 p m Hali
fax 3 29 p m Arrives Scotland Neck
4 10 p m Greenvill 5 47 p m Kinston
6 45 Returning leaves Kinston 7 30
a m Greenville 8 30 a m Arriving
Haiitax at 11 05 a m Weldon 11 20
daily except Sunday.
Trains on Washington braneh road
leave Washington 8 00 a m and 245
p m arriving Parmele 8 55 a m and
4pm Returning leave Parmele 1110
a m and 5 22 p m daily except Sun
day.
Train leaves Tarboro daily except
Sunday 4 35 p m, Sunday 4 35 p m,
arrives Plymouth 6 35 p m, 6 30 p m
Returning leaves Plymouth daily ex
cept Sunday 7 30 a m, Sunday 9am
arrives Tarboro 9 55 a m, 11 a m.
Train on Midland Branch leaves
Goldsboro daily except Snndav 5 00
a m, arrive Smithfield 6 10 a in Re
turning leaves Smithfleld Tam, ar
rive Goldsboro 8 25 a m.
Train on Nasliville branch leaves
Rocky Mt at 9 30 a m and 4 00 p m
arrives Nashville 10 20 a m and 4 23
p m. Spring Hope 11 00 a m and 445
p m, Returuing leave Spring Hope at
11 20 a m and 5 13 p m, Nashville 11
45 a m and 5 4a p m, arrive Rocky
Mt 12 10 a m and 6 20 p m. Daily ex
cept Sunday.
Train on Clinton Branch leaves War
saw for Clinton daily except Sunday
11 40,am and 415pm Retaming
lMve;piii4on 8 ;^5a m and 2 59 p
' Ti^in 78 makes close connection at
W eldon for all points North daily.
All -»il via Richmond also at Rocky
Mt with Norfolk and Carolina Road
for Norfolk daily and all points North
Tia Norfolk.
ii. M. Emerson,
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J. R. Ksitlt, Gen’l Manager.
T. M. Eubsson. Traffic Mana^r.
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JANUARY 1ST, 1903
We carry a large stock of I>ry Goods, Shoes,
Hats Notions Harflware^ Harness Fur~
^ nit^i^'e, Feefl Stuffs, Etc., ami are 'orepareii
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