The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-21
A sKINNING FOB LOAFERs.
and Things Gen
orally Pitched into.
Shelby Nelc Ira }

the nail square cn the head 80 far
as the plain, unvarnished gospel
! truth 10 concerned.
= Don't Shelby beat the world for
taking to its bosom and hugging
With kind of insane delight all Of
the old, unmitigated frauds thai
come along? There amt but one
way to explain it. There are so
many outrageous frauds and per-
ipatetic Aumbugs in this community
| that when another Of the same cloth
comes into their circle, there is q
grand feeling Of kinship between
them.
Now just take that old head-ex
aminer t1r instance. Who would
have thought that this town had So
many foolsf Why every man that
could raise twenty-five cents had his
noggin felt and those who were
fattered in an extra way by the ex
amin6t,on squandered as much as a
dollar for q chart. Poor fools A
chart Of idiocy! A signboard of
concelt and over~eaning vanity.
Yes, quack doctors, bob-talled law
yers, sanctimonious sky pilots, debt
dodgers and nobodles in general just
docked around the professor and
said Swindle US. humbug us, cheat
US, tell sweet complimentary lies TO
us and pile it on thick, for we can
stand heap of it. And didn't he
size them up for what they were
worth and bleed them too? Told
them Of propensities that would have
made Brigham Young turn green
with envy, made them think they
were walking miracles of sense and,
as final straw to break the camel's
back, he pronounced nine out Of ten
of his vacant minded subjects suited
to the profession Of law because he
knew the narrow little souls had no
better sense than to consider law
yers whales.
saw him examine the head of the
meanest man in town-Of a man
who knew he was so alfred mean
that be shook in his very boots for
for fear OF exposure. Tuis fellow is
notoriously grabbed and cross-graln-
ed. And stingy just don't talk !
His mental horizon is no bigger than
is that OF a worm in chesnut. His
very scrawpy old face marks him to
be the meanest man in town and
nobody here is one bit deceived
ABOUT him. Well be was made a
paragon of virtue. The old "prof."
laid 1t on thick because he knew it
would take heap to satisfy his
picayunish subject that he had his
twenty-five cents' worth.
T. el there was q cymbin headed
old fellow, with no sense now, none
in the past and entirely devoid OF
hope for any in the future. His
head is as slick as gourd-not 8
bump, not anything upon 1t to indi
cate talent of any kind. Well, con
fess it tickled me when he struck
this subject. If there was anything
ia the science of phrenology, this
fellows head would have been q
sumner. But the o!d war horse was
equal to the emergency. He made
him out about as good as anybody
else. This fellow is SO lifted up that
l know he will at once try to bug s
patent warranted to make brains out
OF mush.
Now there was one man whom l
thought he did an injustice to. Thi-
man tries to preach sometimes. /
don't think he is much pumpkins on
a preach and he has got bad case
oF bighead, but still know he is not
very vicious. The old quack mis-,
LUok his man when be came to him
Just because his subject didn't hap
pen to have on hi. Sundty clothes
and because the bridge Of lis nose
was broken by reason of railroau
accident and be had the appearance
Of dissolute man, Why he said all
kind of mean things about him put
his spirituality down forty degrees
below zero and made him out re
gular reprobate. TINS example is
positive proof OF the worthlessness
of the science Of phrenolOgY and the
cursed imposition of the science
re, resentative that was lately in our
midst.
Did YOU ever thInk about how
many people here never DO anything
Gel up any morning and you viii
see a fo7tv-fnot row Of niggera back