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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-21


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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-21

Two good stores on Maiu Street,
Scotland Neck Now occuped, and
brirein1 good rent. Will exchange
for real estate In the country.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-21
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Real Estate Agent.
FARMS AND OTHER PROPERTY FOR SALE.

\ good rlver farm, know0 as TIE
Smith Farm 1875 acres, 200 ac-e.
cleared Vel adapted to corn, gotten.
peanuts, wheat, oats, and SIS fine
.razs xnd clover land "A there is
the State. 225 acres wood land of
pine. OAK, gum ami empress Erowta.
\ 4-roon building. good cotton 60.
IA stalls. harm aud good teuaat
houses. Tie farm is not suhJccl 20
Overflow ~ freshets IN Eoaa"Ae
river. Situated l mile from the
riye- . miles from Scotland NccA
II. L.. 4 miles from Scotland Neck.
Price i.250-ope-fourth cash ami
balance on easy terms.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-21

The "Eimonison Farm" near
Uilrs Y Roads. AIS acrcs. 40 acres
cleared adapted 10 corn. co,ton,oats,
clover and grass. The wood land
grow,h pine and gum. Fine 2-story
lOroom house. Good gin-house,
stalls and oil other necessary out~
houses. Fine orchard-fTults In
abundan,e e. Good water. As foe
country residence IS there ~ ~ Hal.
flax county. 81 miles from Scotland
Neck, IL miles from Spring mn.
Price =. 50O-one- fourth cash and
the balance on easy terms.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-21

B-Robert Ward, Maxey Ga, writes: "For
twelve or fourteen years have been great suffer-
er from a terrible form OF blood poison. My head,
face and shoulders became almost mass of corrup
ton, and finally the disease commenced eating away
my skull bones. became so horribly repulsive that
for three years absolutely refused to let people see
RE. I used large quantities of most noted blood
remedies and applied to nearly all physicians near
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-21
OUICKCURE

QUICK in its effect, comes to mind. 1t is Botanic
Blood Balm, made in the beautiful city of Atlanta
Ga. An Illustrated Book of Wonders sent free BY
the Blood Balm Co.. Atlanta, Ga, is filed with
most convincing proo:'of its remarkable merit.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-21
4 RUINED HOME.

Our house is on fire Our home is burning up II
What cry pietcing to the soul Fire, indeed, is
terrible when it destroys inanate things we love,
out how much more terrible when ii destroys the
living tissues Of the fesh Fire in the blood, how
cruel N its effect Covering the fair skin with spots
and blemishes Twlnsjng the limbs and joints with
aches and pains, creating ulcers and running sores.
Singing the very roots of the hair and causing it
70 fall dead away. CTamP;ng the functions Of the
liver and kidneys with internal swelings and sores.
Dishguring form and feature. Thank Heaven, in
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-21

me. but my condition con-
tiEGcd to grow worse, and
ailtsaid that must surely
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-05

fuel and engineer, even without
fuel and engineer, even without
freight or passengers, could not be
less than 800 or 400 pounds.
Now, to complete the argument,
put these three indisputable facts to.
gether: 1. There Is a low limit of
weight. certainly not much beyond
fifty pounds, beyond which it is i'm
possible for an animal to fly. Ma
ture has reached this limit, and
with her utmost effort has failed to
pass it. 9. The animal machine is
far more effective than any we may
hope to make /; therefore the limit of
the weight of a successful flying ma
chine cannot he more than fifty
pounds. 8. The weight of any ma
chine constructed for flying, includ-
ing fuel and engineer, can not be less
than three or four hundred pounds.
Is it not demonstrated that true
flying machine, self-raising, self-sus-
tanning, self-propelling, is physically
impossible Z? - Professor Joseph LIE
Conte in Popular Science Monthly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-05
Gems for Thought.

One may live conqueror, a king,
a magistrate but he must die as a
man.
Better is little. provided it is your
own, than an abundance OF borrowed
capital.
Truth should be the first lesson of
the child and the last aspiration to
manhood.
Revenge, that thirsty dropsy of
the soul, makes us covet that which
hurts us most.
Talking much is sign of vanity {;
for he that is lavish in words is mig
gard in deed.
Many a man who prides himself on
being self-made is simply a product
of his good wife.
Receive the gifts of fortune with.
out pride, and part with them with
out reluctance.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-05
The Flying Machine Problem.

The reason of this wonderful effect.
iyeness of the animal machine is OBJ
vious. See how this machine has
been gradually perfected throughout
infinite ages. especially in birds. Dur
ing the whole geological history of
the earth this machine has been
steadily improving in structure of
skeleton. energy of muscle and rapid
Idly of combustion of fuel, by strug-
gle for life and survival of only the
swiftest, the most energetic and
the hottest blooded, until an al.
most incredible intensity is reached
In birds. Moreover, in them every
thing is sacrificed to the supreme ne.
cessity of flight. Viscera. skeleton.
legs, head, all are made as small and
light as possible to make room for
the great pectoral muscles working
the wings. Add to this the exquisite
structure of the wings and feathers,
adapting them for the greatest effect
iveness, and we must admit that
bird is an incom parable model of a
flying machine.
No machine that we may hope to
devise. for the same weight of ma
chine. fuel and directing brain. Is
half 30 effective. And yet this ma
chine thus perfected through infinite
ages by ruthless process of natural
selection. reaches its limit of weight
at about fifty pounds I said"weight
of machine, fuel and directing
BRAIN" Here is another prodigious
advantage of the natural over the ar.
tificial machine. The flying machine
must carry its engineer. The di-
recting engineer in the former 1.-THE
brain) is perhaps an ounce, In the
latter it is $50 pounds. The limit of
the flying animal is fifty pounds.
The smallest possible weight of
flying machine, with its necessary
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-05
Superstitious Arabs of Algiers.

Next to commercial grandee you
will find patriarch versed in the
Koran. and possessing the power of
writing extracts from the Book of
the Prophet, and through them and
his own venerated meditation of in.
surfing tine Individual made happy
possessor of the valuable document
by paying few sous against disease.
bad luck. the evil eye and innumer-
able misfortunes. A charming old
acquaintance of mine. near whose
sanctified abode l made several
studies, and took refuge when it
rained, seemed to have an extensive
practice in writing these charms on
eggs, perhaps three times week, at
one sou each.
These charms are more frequently
written on paper, to be folded and in
closed in amulets, which are gener-
ally square or triangular in shape. land
made of silk, leather and tin. AS
they believe in the efficiency of these
scraps of paper, so are they supersti-
tious about paper generally they
object, for instance, to going before
French authorities to settle their
grievances against each other, pre-
ferring verbal discussions of their
case in presence of their cadi. for they
fear that all sorts of harmful words
may be written besides the name of
God-and subsequently used to their
condemnation. Children wear them
around their neck or tied to their
cap; men and women wear them on
their person, sometimes above the
elbow and in their garments horses
have them attached to the band
passing across their chest to protect
them from the evil eye.
Those worn by the women of the
higher and Weather classes are in
closed in richly engraved cases of
gold and silver, and suspended 10
chains slung over the shoulder and
passing around the waist. They add
greatly to the richness of their cos
tune, and form part of their wealth.
TELL me Baia, what do you do when
you fall i'll ? suppose you call in a
doctor ?" "Oh, no the men may
do so when they are sick, for our
Arab doctors are far superior to the
French but we women 60 to the
marabout he writes a few words
from certain chapters in the Koran,
such as these. God is the best pro-
tector,' He is the most merciful of
those who show mercy or, "A guard
against every rebellious DEVIL etc.
This paper we chew and swallow.
and with little water which he
gives US from the sacred we'll. in a
few days We ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Monthly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-05

isian. From Tory Island, off Neville.
to Bell Isle took four days. seventeen
hours and ten minutes.
A Texas man was fired at and the
bullet was turned aside by pack of
cards in his breast pocket. AS il was
a new pack, with the ace outward, it
can he said that the ball came within
an ace of killing him.
In digging a we'll rear Cherokee,
Ga. the digger dropped on some.
thing about thirty feet below the sur
face that is white AS chalk, free from
grit and about the consistency of
dough. 1t is thought to be chewing
gum vein.
Sunflowers are used in Wyoming
Territory for fuel. The stalks when
dry are hard and make a hot fire, and
seed heads with the seed in are said
to burn better than coal. An acre of
sunfi0wers is said to furnish fuel for
one stove for winter.
A curious bird that looks like an
owl, but has the face of monkey,
was caught near Richmond, Va, a
few days ago. Scientists have ex-
amined it, but no one appears to
know to what species it belongs. 1t
will probably be sent to the Smith
sonian Institute at Washington.
Prairie chicken. like other natives
of the wilds, are opposed to civilfzds
ton, and are being pushed back to-
ward the frontier with the advance
of the immigrant. During the last
ten years they have been moving
west so that they are no longer seen
in Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota, and
now flock in Western Nebraska or
Dakota.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-05
NOTICE.

All persons are warned against cutting
down any of the timber on my land on the
Hooppole Road, adjoining the land of Bowie
Johnson, about three miles from Deer Park
for cutting down timber in Garrett county
Nd, without permission of the owner of the
land, is the same, under the Act of 1880. oh
1884, as for feloniously stealing goods or chat
tells TO the value ofthe tree or trees'' so cut
down.
THEOS. B. HoRWITZ.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-05
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
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Cure. 1t is a sure and speedy cure for Coughs,
Colds, Group. Whooping Cough, Hoarseness,
&c. % cts. q bottle.
For Sprains. Burns, Bruises. &c.
Use Rogers Specific Liniment. 1t has no
equal as cure for Sprains, Burns, Bruises,
Collie, Cholera Morbus, Diarrhoea, Dysentary
rheumatism, &c. % cts.
Dyspepsia and Habitual Constipation
Speedily cured by few doses of Appetite,
the Great stomach, Kidney and Liver Rem
edy. Price 50 cts.
Piles! Piles! Pile
Rogers Specific Cocaine Pile Remedy will
cure in a short time the most aggravated case
of Itching, protruding, Bleeding or any other
form of Piles. Price so cts. a box.
Rogers Sp cific Worm Syrup
Is Pleasant, Safe and efficient. Price % cts.
For Chapped Hands, Face, &C.,
Use Frangipane Curative Balm, delightful
toilet article for the Hands. Face. Roughness
of Skin, Face and Sunburn, letter, Pimples
Blotches and Skin Diseases. Price Is cts.
All the above preparations are for sale at
A. u. Sturgiss Drug Store, Oakland, and by
druggists and country merchants in all parts
OF Garrett and adjoining counties.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-05
Quotations from Henry Ward Beecher.

QUOTATIONS. from henry War0 boecner.
Men are like trees each one must
put forth the leaf that is created in
him. Education Is only like good
culture-it changes the size, but not
the sort.
Better suffer in bone and muscle
than in imagin alton.
Well married, man is winged
illmated. he is shackled.
In what other painful event of life
has good man so little sympathy as
when overcome with sleepin meeting
time?
In his lawful bed a man cannot
sleep and in his pew he cannot keep
awake.
Oh. that one could carry his pew
to bed with him!
Mans Infirmities are the strongest
bonds of sympat y.
Imagination is the very marrow
of faith.
The first step toward knowing is
to be conscious of not knowing.
Poetry is the robe, the royal appar
ell, In which truth asserts its divine
origin.
Prose Is truth looking on the
ground eloquence is truth looking
up to heaven.
Truth should be as drawn sword.
Every house has an expression.
Every room has disposition.
The Sabbath inserts seventh gold
en- link in the iron chain of toll.
No one but he who has tried it
knows what power of learning there
is in mind every faculty of which
is tenselv strained with desire and
necessity.
Every artist dips his brush in his
own soul, and paints his own allure
into his pictures.
Paint the man as his mothers
thoughts do then paint him as he
really lived hang the two portraits
side by side, and write: What he
aUGs to be ! and then, What he aOaS !
Life has no sadder contrast.
Many would shrink to have their
looking-glasses reveal their secrets.
There are more dangerous idols
than those made of wood and stone.
What if there should be resurrec-
tion of that which has been buried in
lo0king-glasses? Little children's
faces, anxious mothers. budding girls
beginning to suspect their own beau.
ty, vain and giggling looks, grave
and sad looks of those who hate to
grow old. vexed looks of those who
have cut themselves in shaving, tim
id and anxious looks of those who
have been sick, double images of low
ers glancing upon the sweet picture
of their embrace, prim and prig ped
ants touching up their gray whiskers
and covering their badness with the
few stray locks yet left. simple and
wondering looks of curly and woody
Phillis, whose honest. homely face is
just as dear to her as if it were Cleop-
atra's.
The only city of a child's desire-a
huge, old-fashioned barn
Mysterious world ofsIeep! Strange
world, in which we dwell in uncon.
seriousness a quarter part of all our
lives !! Is four-score years then so
long that from it must be subtracted
full fourth part.
Story.hunger in children is even
more urgent than bread-hunger.
There are many people who seem
to regard anxiety as a religious duty.
II we follow duty willingly. we
are treated kindly; but if we resist
Duty hunts us down and drags us to
answer to our conscience.
The Flying Machine Problem.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-05
Select Siftings.

At country exhibition a small
house made entirely of boxes of honey
has the appropriate inscription of
"Home, sweet home."
A general inundation of the failure
of the dlkes in Holland occasioned a
loss of life, it is said, amounting to
100000 persons in 1880.
A hawk carried off bundle con.
tanning thirty-two pounds of feathers
from the yard of person at Caters
vile, Ga, the other day.
The nobility of England date their
creation from 1866, then William
Fitz.Osborne Is said to have been
made Earl of Hereford by William I.
1t has BEEN discovered and author
itatively announced that the first
man to turn the handle of an organ
was native of the province of Tende.
The water that goes to the ocean
will float back In clouds and fall in
drops, but the substance carried from
the manure heap by the water will
not come back.
A curiosity of patchwork recently
received in Richmond. Va, from
Norfolk, is a mantel lambrequin
made of sixty-six badges collected at
the Gettysburg reunion last July.
The Rev. John Carroll. of st.
Mary's Church, Chicago. is ninety
years old, and he is believed to be
the oldest priest in the country. He
is of Irish parentage and was Or
dained in 1920.
The quickest passage ever made
from land to land across the Atlantic
was made by the Allan steamer Par
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-01-05

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-06-06

CoNTAGIoN CARRIED ON THE HANDS
Cases of infection that could be account
ed for il no other way have been explain
ed by the fin gers as vehicle. In hand
ling money, especially of paper, door
knobs, banisters, car straps, aud hund
red things that every one must frequent
ly touch, there are chances inUumerahie
of picking up germs of typhoid, scarlat
ina, diphtheria, small pox, etc. Yet
some persons actually put such things in
their mouth if not too large! Before
eating, or touching that which is to be
eaten, the hands should be immediately
and scrupulously washed. We hear
much about general cleanliness as "next
to goodness. 1t may be added that
here in particular, it is also ahead OF
health and safety. The Jews made 20
mistake in that Except they washed
they ate not" 1t was a sanitary ordi
nance of deeency.-Senitary Era.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-06-06

A PICTURE OF VoLTAIRE.-The French
ambassador at Rome has had the good
fortune of singular "fud." 4 famous
portrait of Voltaire has been missing for
more than half century. The most
celebrated of bis statues, and nearly all
his likenesses represent the philosopher
in bis old age but there was portrait
known TO have been painted by Largiliere
in Ills, when Voltaire was only "a
"the brightest young fellow in the
world" as Carlyle describes him. This
is the portrait that NJ. Mariani discover
ed and exhibited at his first reception
in the Farnese palace few nights ago.
Its value is even enhanced; for a charac-
teristic anecdote explains how it came
into the possession of its late owner.
Voltaire in his old age had great desire
tn meet the Marquise de Vilette, Que of
the many flames of his youth. The lady
had survived had beauty and did not care
for the interview. Voltaire was piqued,
and wrote first rather insulting quat-
rain on the refusal, which he followed
up by sending portrait of himself as
the court beauty may have remembered
him when they were both Young. In
deed, for the purpose, he took it away
from his adopted daughter, to whom he
presented it fifty years before. The lady
retained the picture and bequeathed it to
her nephew, Baron Varlcourt, from
whom the ambassador acquired it. The
pedigree, therefore is without flaw. A
medallion head in Beauharnais' edition
of Voltaire's works has evidentaly been
inspired by Largiliere's portrait.
Mall Gazette.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-06-06
HE DIDN'T SEE.

The Listener was about to write q
chapter on the professional men who be-
long to the church for professional pur-
poses only, and who come to regard their
church as their peculiar preserve, upon
which other men of their traie have no
right to poach. On second thought,
however, he has dscided not to write the
chapter, but simply to tell a story.
DR.. Plugham, an able dentist, who has
his Office in that handsome thoroughfare
which from the frequency of its dental
establishments. is coming to be Molar
avenue (Piugham of course, like the rest
of the dentists in that aristocratic section
does not give hint Of his occupation In
his sign, but simply decorstes his door
with very modest plate bearing only
the legend ''Dr Piugham'), belongs to
fairly fashionable church and is very
faithful indeed in his devotions. No
Sunday so stormy that it does not find
him in bis pew he teaches class in the
Sunday school and takes prominent
part in all church and society proceed
ings.
The other Sunday several of the con-
gregation at Piugham's church noticed
we'll dressed stranger at church, upon
whom Plugham bestowed a glance of
slight recognition, and after the service
PiuGham and the stranger were seen In
conversation for a moment or two in the
vestibule. After the stranger had passed
out, one of the members of the church
stepped up TO DIR. Plugham and remark
ed:
"Who was that stranger that you were
talking with, doctor?"
ale" said Plueham, rs a scGr.l dark
encd his handsome face, cob at was
DIR. Snagge, the dentist, aud 3 mt see
what in thunder he's prowli.. .round
here for!'-Boston Transcript.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-06-06
PLAIN WoRDs ABOUT PEKING. Above

PLAIN WORDS ABOUT PEKING Above
all other characteristics, however, Of
Picking one thing stands out In horrible
prominence, ana [ have put this off to
the last. Not to mention it would be to
wilifully omit the most striking color
of the picture. l mean its filth. 1t is
the most horrible and indescribably
filthy place that can be imagined. In
deed, Imagination must fall far short of
the fact. Some of the daily sights of
the pedestrian in Picking could not hard
~ be more than limited at by one man to
another in the smoking room. There is
no sewer or cesspool, public or private,
but the street; the dog, the pig and the
fowl are the scavengers; every now and
then you pass a man who goes along,
tossing the most loathsome of the refuse
into all open work basket on his back :;
the smells are simply awful; the city is
one colossal and uncieansed cloaca. As
| have said above, the first of the two
moments of delight vouchsafed to every
visitor to the Celestial capital is his first
sight of it. The second-though [ must
not omit to thank my too kind host for
one of the pioasantest and most instruc-
tive fortnights of my life-is when he
turns his back, hoping that it may be
forever, upon "the body and soul sinking
town" (the words are Coleridge of Pek-
ing Pail Mall Gazette.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-06-06

The OLD HoME.-An old home ac-
quires power over the heart with the
course of time; it comes by degrees to
touch the imagination with sense of life
inherent IN itself. Its timbers are not
dead wood. As the vibrations Of the
music constrain the fbers of the violin
till year by year, it gives forth fuller
and deeper tone, so the vibrations of life
as generations go by shape the walls of
a home into responsive accord with the
human experience that goes on within
them. Birth and death, Joy and sorrow
hope and isappointment-al that men
endure and enjoy, give to it constantly
increasing sanctity and a power to effect
the hearts Of those who dwell within it.
Memory awakens Imagination. Each
generation has set its lamp upon the
home in some change, some improve
ment. The lapse ofyears alone.makes it
venerable but if succession of kindly,
humane and loving men aud women have
dwelt in it, it becomes the memorial of
happiness and an incentive to excellence
The older it is the sweeter and richer
garden does it become of human chart
ties and affec rious.-Scribner's