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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-21

We took a little run down to Rocky
Mount last week. With the frequent
newspaper comments On the courtesy
snd kindness of Mr.. Hart, the clever pro-
prietor of the Hammond Hotel, nothing
can be added more nor less than an en-
dorsement Of them all. The Rocky Mount
Hotel is one of the tidiest and best kept
in the State. livery one likes to stop
over in Rocky Mount for the excellent
hotel accommodations.
1t is always pleasure to the writer to
visit Rocky Mount, fer the uniform
courtesy amongits people towards visi-
tors is captivating. Oar trip was too short
last week for US to see all our friends. 1t
was fair week, and every one pronounced
the fair big success,
We spent only short while on the
fair grounds: but what we saw of the ex-
hibit was good. The racing was good and
every body seemed pleased with the fair,
with one exception, and that was the
pestiferous presence Of the despicable
gamblers. We understand, however,
that they will not be admitted into the
grounds again.
GOVERNOR toWLE
Spoke a short willie on Thursday after
noon. He was happy in his illusions to
the fact that his ti:tl-pl4ce was on the
banks of the Tar river, and consequently
he was peculiarly attached t. all who's
interest cllngs about the Tar and SO wa:
! glad to visit this fair.
HIS speech was received with great
/ applause and every body seemed glad tc
have hire on the grounds. President Bum
introduced the Governor in happy style
and the Governor spoke in happy style
as well.
Secretary Underwood said that the fair
/ was a success tvCrY WaV.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-21
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Handsome line Of Ladies Dress Goods
at y. b. Josey x Co. :.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-21

rehuil3s the system. aids d DIGESTION, removes ex-
cess Of bile, and cures malaria. Get the genuine.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-21

Full line Of Cook Stoves at \. b.
10 cy Il Co.'S.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-21
q BIC : ARM,

2 800 acres, Lynn Immediately on
Roanoke river. 500 acres cleared,
especially adapted t. the growing Of
grasses, wheat, oats, corn, &C. 1000
acres under wire fence for pasture -.
which affords an abundant supply
Of natuTa, grass for nine months In
the year I.400 acres we'll timbered,
consisting Of cypress, ok, ash,
poplar, hickory and pine. Would
make an excellent stock farm. Three
miles from Tlllcry. q thriving town
on The S. & G.. L, X.
Terms made known with price OF
application.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-21
GOVERNOR tOWLE
MANY Persons

Are broken down from OveTwOrk or household
cares Browns Iron BitterS
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-21

100 acre farm at Crowell., 90
acres cleared. Good dwelling and
good tenant house. Good commun-
Ity and healthy.
viii sell for 81 600 cash.
Will rent a year for $3.50 or bales
cotton.
VIII Iooco F,r I,r fr.r TINA
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-21

Edmondso1 i Joscy, agents for the
Piedmont wagon-be I made.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-21

Storm Calendar and Weather Fore>
casts for 1890, by Rev. Irl K. Hicks,
mailed to any address, on receipt of a
two cent postag' stamp.
TIE Dir. J. ii. MCLEAN MED. Co.,
ST. LOUIS, Mo.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-09

as eyer, while the Anne lean farmer
would begin to wonder if the old farm
would stand third mortgage or not.
OF course, the American VIII say that
about certain number OF bushels are
sOwn to the acre, and after all 100 for
1, 80 for 1, etc, really gives us a crude
ratio after all in Judging of the fer
tility of the land. But i would answer
that IN Mexico so little attention is
paid to even such a definite ratio, or
any other IN agriculture, that no one
can form any idea whatever on such
mathematics for basis of conjecture.
Some seven or eight miles from Gus
lhuiriachic Shortened to COOsey by the
Americans of this region(, a canyon is
/ entered at its mouth, through which
runs a river Of the same cOgnOmen. In
a few miles more the rocky sides of the
canyon broke into the most picturesque
/ castellated rocks on both Sides in many
! places hanging. over our heads as if the
( faintest Jar would send them tumbling
down upon US. One of the illustrations
/ shows the view on one side of the can
/ yon; but, after all, 1t can give no ade-
Quate idea of the scene, Tor there was
much color on the rocks, while the sun
was just setting in the west over the
/ panorama before us.
Arriving in Cusihuiriachic late in the
evening, we found the most primitive
hotel any civilized mans eyes ever
rested upon. although this is town
Of six or seven thousand people, ac-
cOrding to their own estimate.
The patio, or interior plaza of
the hotel Of place where one
| can get nothing to eat and have the
! privilege of putting his blankets on a
dirt floor can be called an hoteD was.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-09
4 Sew substitute for GIass.

The new translucent substance in
tended as a substitute for glass has
been satisfactorily adopted in some of
the public buildings of London. and
various advantages are claimed for it,
among these being such a degree of
pliancy that 1t may be bent backward
and forward like leather and be sub
jected to very considerable tensile
strain with impunity; it is also almost
as transparent as glass and of a pleas
ant amber color, varying in shade from
very light golden to pale brown. The
basis of the material is web of fine
iron wire, with warp and weft threads
about One-twelfth inch apart, this
being inclOsed, like a fly in amber, in
a sheet of translucent varnish, of
which the base is hnseed oil. There
is no resin or gum in the varnish, and
once having become dry it is capable
of standing heat and damp without
undergoing any change, neither hard
ening nor becoming sticky. Briefly,
the manufacture is accomplished by
dipping the sheets edgewise into deep
tanks of varnish, and then allowing
the coating which they thus receive to
dry In warm atmosphere. It requires
somewhat more than a dozen of these
dips to bring these sheets to the re-
quired degree of thickness, and, when
this has been accomplished, the ma
teri81 is stored for several weeks to
thoroughly set.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-09
A Cheap Girl to Woo.

I knew Il young fellow who was very
sweet on Scotch spinster. She was a
wealthy Scotch spinster, but if there
Is a kind of woman who must be loved
economically and for herself alone it is
a Scotch spinster. Scotch spinsters are
warranted to make good wives all the
time. 1t is awfully hard to be untrue
to q Scotch woman. She makes you
so very comfortable, and holds you to
her not so much by her heart as by
your bank account. She doesn't always
want new bOnnets; she is rather liable
to object even to your having a new
hat until the old one IS quite worn out.
A Scotch wife can keep her husband
neat and trim and herself and her chill
dren as we'll at a smaller expense than
any others. She doesn't want diamond
earrings for her birthday.
All you have to do is to show her
your bank book and kiss her, and tell
her you owe the big balance to her, and
she is quite satisfied. This young fell
low did not understand the Scotch
spinster, and when he thought to
please her he sent her lovely and ex-
pensive basket of flowers. He went up
to receive her thanks and smiles, and
he was quite knocked over when she
told him he hadn't big enough salary
to waste it buying flowers for her or
anybody else, and she was sorry to see
he was so extravagant, because other
wise he was "a very pIeasin' young
man" He lied himself back into her
good graces by saying he had got the
flowers for nothing, and he thought he
could not make better use of them.
She smiled graciOusly, and said:
Seem they did ma cost you any
thing, it's a great compliment"
She was q woman after all.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-09

glass from those residences. Last year
Sig. BlOndin gave an exhibition at these
grounds on the tight rope or wire. Those
who did not care to see him were almost
compelled to pull down the blinds.
went down to witness the opening game
Of ball at st. George this season, but was
panied to notice that the magnanimOus elm
from which I had heretofore Witnessed the
outdoor spectacles on these grounds had
been filed full of sharp spikes. This course
will not only hurt the management, but
others who would be glad to foster and en-
courage, by. voice and pen, all manly athletic
sports of an outdoor nature. l spoke to
the dOOrtenderu about it, and said 1 was a
great hand for sport, and would like to see
the noble American game this summer from
time to time on those grounds. He said
not on those grounds. Possibly on some
other grounds, but not on these grounds.
1 then pulled a cork out of knOt-hOle in
the fence by means of a cOrkscreW which
had brought with me, not knowing what
might happen. and through the aperture
saw the game, though, of course, imper-
fectly. When I left the hole there was a
ring worm around it's circumference quite
distinctly. where I had chafed the board
with my nose while trying to follow the
course of the lofty fly.
Early in the afternoon De Cappa'S justly
celebrated band played some Overtures, in
terspersed with interlAdes. The disadvan-
tage Of a knOt-hOle as an Organette is that
one has to look through it with his ear
while the band plays, or miss the melody.
do not know much about base ball. and,
for that reason, I have been repeatedly
called upon to umpire the game. People
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-09

was an exodus out of a city soon to be
put to siege.
In Investigating some of the re-
sources of this country I ran across a
new (tO mel and interesting way of
measuring wheat: and the method also
applies to a number Of products raised
from the soil. 1 found an old hunter
on the Yukon River, Of Alaska, who
measured the length of grizzly bears
by the fathOm, and I have had a Mexi-
can charge me for a saddle by the
pound, carefully weighing it and esti-
mating the resulting cost, but when
tried to find out how an exceptionally
fine field Of wheat yielded to the acre
the reply was equally surprising. The
owner, as he boosted of the field, knew
nothing of so many bushels to the acre,
or to the hectare, which Is their usual
measurement here, nor even of any IA
tho Of pounds or kilograms to a known
superficial area, but he loudly Dragged
that he raised one hundred for one,
while but d few of his neighbOrs could
claim as high as fifty for one, forty for
one being the average for the whole
valley. Now. one hundred for one
means that he got one hundred grains
for every grain he planted. one hun
dred bushels for every busheI put In as
seed, etc. Now, if he had planted a
bushel on an acre of ground and got
one hundred bushels IN return it would
have simply been an enormous Weld,
and a Western farmer would have
yelled with delight at such a result.
but If he had planted a busheI on ten
acres Of ground and got the same old
hundred bushels as before, the Mexi-
can farmer would have been as happy
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-09
Two Shocking COnundrums.

Until few nights ago [ thought
that the worst conundrum ever per
petrated was that William Black. in
the Strange Adventures of a House
boat, makes his spirited American
heroine, Peggy RossIyn, PROFOUND to
shocked English people. Why was
General Wolseley the most extraor-
binary general in the world ?" she asks,
and then replies, while the staid En-
glish folk are dumbfounded, Because
he not only took Cairo, but Damietta
The night I found one to beat this I
was riding in a grip-car behind a lady
and gentleman who I discovered were
coming from session of a reading
club. They got to talking conundrums,
and the lady posed the escort. What
is the difference, she asked, between
the Eiffel Tower and Queen Eliza
beth % Give it up, said ne. after
thinking while the car ran six blocks.
Why, said the lady" one is a wonder
and the other was a Tudor. st. Louis
GI05e-DeUOcrdt
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known people, Don Enrique Muller,
told me, the name Of the camp or town
alongside ended in chic, as the ex-
ample have given above. Bibichic,
Carichic, Baquiriachic, and a few 9TH
ers I could mention, all wool and a
yard wide. The rest of the word
= plenty long enough for five or
six names yet-means, says my au-
thority, "the place Of the standing
post" When they ruled their own
country, many years ago, the princi-
pal means of punishment they had was
the upright post to which the offenders
were tied and treated to a Delaware
dissertation.
Such is the origin of the big name
of the little Mexican town of Cusi-
huiriachic, lying about half way be-
tween the city of Chihuahua and the
great mining belt of the Sierra Madre
Mountains, lying west and southwest
from the city, and to which it is a sec
Ondary distribution point. The dill
gence ride to it is made in one day, a
little over seventy miles.
We started from chihuahua long be-
fore it was daylight. Leaving Chi
huahua and bearing west toward the
Sierra Madre Mountains, one finds the
road even crowded with Mexican trans
pOrtatiOn, all from the rich silver belt
now being rapidly developed mostly by
American wealth. There are great
carts with solid wooden wheels of the
Nazarine style of building. the patient
donkey of the same period, and all so
numerous that one would think there
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-09

are apt. in choosing their umpires as in
choosing their juries, to confuse ignorance
and impartlallty.
The game was played between our own
New York club and that of Cleveland, Ohio.
First our club would swat the ball and run
around the goals for awhile and then the
other would do so. This was kept up until
Cleveland had five and the New Yorks had
just what they started with.
But we were speaking of Staten Island
Probably Staten Island is, to the ajOrity
Of the residents even Of New York, a terra
incOgntta. 1t is also a terra to the police
sometimes, for being thirteen miles and q
half long by seven and three quarters miles
in width nine policemen have great diff
Guilty IN being on the ground when trouble
occurs, especially when the roads are bad.
So the Staten Island pOliceman's life is not
one Of luxurious ease as one might suppose.
My heart has not been so touched for years.
as last autumn, while StrOllng through the
beautiful woods which are engaged in
clothing the hillSides of the island. The
air was crisp and exhilarating; the blue sea
glimmered through the red and gold of the
autumnal foliage. Suddenly / thought
heard a sob. Ever ready to comfort the
distressed, provided it does not cost any
thing, always on hand to ask the suffering
n it still hurts, and if so, where it hurts,
and engage the sufferer IN pleasing CONVEX
satiOn. / climbed the fence and penetrated
still further into the woods, where found
a policeman. Tears We're in his eyes.
can bear anything better than the sight OF
a policeman bathed in tears.
inquired the cause Of his anguish. He
said it was so quiet and lonely on ms beat
that he had strOil6d on into the woods, and
In an unguarded moment he had thrown his
club into a chestnut tree to knock down a
few nuts. not having had chance to knock
down anything else for a long time, and the
club had remained up there he dared not
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90 home or back en- the beat without ais
club. for it would be a disgrace and besides
that. he might be attacked by some one on
his way home and have no means Of de-
tending himself Tt was sad case. Later
on. however, bad boy, by turning states
evidence and getting promise from the
policeman that ne should be free from ar
rest for five years, went up the tree and re-
turned with the Billy do.
Staten Island in revolutionary times was
extremely tory in its politics. but is now
friendly to the United States, with the ex-
ceptiOn, perhaps. of a slight bitterness still
felt toward COnstable's Hook. COnstable's
Hook is like Adams and Jefferson. Though
dead. it still speaks. A man who had lived
for a long time at ConstabIe's Hook might
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-09

Taking it altogether there never was a
time when our country was enjoying greater
prosperity than at the present moment, and
yet there are thousands of people in the
land VIII o are fussing and tuning about hard
times. No doubt but many of them are
honest IN their complaints, and it is often
because they have not found the right kind
OF work or the right way to do it. Now, if
business is not moving along with you sat
lsfactOrily, take our advice and write to B.
F. johnson & Co, Richmond, Va. TT more
than likely that they can help you, at any
rate, it would cost you nothing but postage
stamp to apply to them.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-09

upon our arrival, being used for cock
fight, and one or two hundred people
were jammed therein, yelling like
panthers. In the pit were dead, bloody
rooster or two that had been butchered
to make a Mexican "hOller" day. As
all of the rooms emptied by their one
single door into the little patio, the
beauty of the situation can probably
be appreciated by some. The only
other outlet was by a grated window,
which made our apartments look like
| a prison, a cheerful aspect that is
peculiar to nearly all Mexican houses.
I would rather have spent a couple Of
nights in an American prison. We
were crowded into rooms four to six in
each.
The road from Cusihuiriachic to Car
ichic brings US to the foot of the Sierra
Madre Mountains, beyond which all
roads cease and only trails are followed
/ by the patient donkey and the mel
anchOly mule. On the way over we
came to an adobe building that de-
| parted in very picturesque way from
the everlasting mud-box style of archi-
/ lecture so common to this country, and
/ for which departure we have to thank
| the Apaches, not that they built it, for
an Apache never built anything except
under cOmpulsion, and at that time
cOmpulsion Of these Indians was the
/ scarcest thing in Mexico; but, rather,
! they compelled the bfexicans to do it
that is, build corner towers on the
! ends of the mud-box and convert it into
] a building Of defense. In the pictur-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-09
HOW to Build Up the Teeth.

Teeth are Just as easily starved to
death as the stomach. If we do not
furnish to the teeth of the young that
pabulum they require, they cannot
possibly be built up. It is the outside
of corn, oats, wheat, barley, and the
like, or the bran so-called, that we sift
away and feed to the swine. that the
teeth actually require for their proper
nOurishment. These Touring mills are
working destruction upon the teeth of
every man, woman, and child who par
takes of their fine bOlted flour. They
sift out the carbOnates and the phos-
pilates of lime in order that they may
provide that fine white -four which is
proving a whitened sepuIcher to teeth.
Cat meal Is one of the best foods for
supplying the teeth with nOurishment.
1t makes the dentine, cementum, and
enamel strong, dint-hke, and able to
resist all forms of decay. If you have
children, never allow any white bread
upon your table. Bread made of whole
wheat ground, not boIted, so that the
bean which contains the minute guam
titles of lime Is present, Is best Baked
beans, too, have a considerable supply
of these lime salts, and should be on
your table, hot or cold, three times a
week. In brushing the teeth, always
brush up and down from the gum in-
stead of acrOss.-AmeFjcG7I A7laIgist.
SOME men are like thirsty cattle
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-09

Chicago Inter Ocean. We are now in
the land of the Tarahumari Indians,
of west central chihuahua, and this
Iong-winded name at the head of my
article belongs to them, Just as the
same equivalent Indian names are
found in Maine and few other places
in the Union.
This large Indian tribe, numbering
from Is, 600 to $4,000, was once scat
tered over considerable ground, and
their names are still given to most of
the places on the territory they owned
before the advent of the Europeans.
Wherever there is water, an old resi-
dent among these strange and little
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-09

Weatherford Tex Constitution, July g.
''Yes, sir; I have received the coin, and
shall apply it to good purposes - replied
Miss Annie Dawce, of Strawn, Texas, to our
reporter. Miss Dawce was the fortunate
holder Of one-fortleth of ticket No. 81, sos,
which drew the first capital prize S6OO, 900 in
the drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery
on June 18th. Miss Dawce mOdestly stated
that she had been investing in the monthly
drawings for some time with more or less
fortune, and had always felt confident of win
ming one of the large prizes. 81 represent
in this ticket" she said, ga pool of seven,
To are eg26I Sna[erS IN my go9d fortune
comprise the '1ucky seven" each of whom
received s., 11.10 after paying the expenses
Of collection: Miss Dawce, Miss j. J. COe
J. S. Crouch, John Grant, J. NJ. Billiard, J.
S. HapgOod and ". B. DoweIl. All of the
parties are connected with the Bri sc De-
partment of the Texas & Pacific r. R.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-09

GOOD minister have not seen you
at church for months, Mr. Grateman.
AIr. Grateman- I'm working for
nomination, and don't want to do
anything to make the boys think I'm
stuck up.
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esque mountain scenery it looked at a
short distance like an old castle, which
we could have believed it to be, had
we not seen too many other typical
Mexican scenes around to drag our i'm
agination down to the ground.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-09

may be found, st. George is net really a
town. 1t is not even a postomce; it is only
a name. It has a fine baseball ground,
however. bank, a bright and handsome
paper called the IStGten-Ls lander, and a tele-
phone, by means of which one can converse
with parties In New York, but 1t has no
inhabitants. I desired one evening to con-
verse with Chauncey DepeW upon a personal
matter. so asked for the New York Cen
trail Office. I got it promptly, and after re-
Vealing a large quantity or secrets Of the
order, including grips, passwords and
signs OF distress, voice at the other end Of
the line made the statement "Ratsi"
then learned that had laid bare my
most precious thoughts to the New York
Central Office Of the telephOne-not to the
New York Central and Hudson River Rail-
road shops-I contributed to the laughing
stock of the telephone company, instead OF
utilizing the rolling stock of the road:
Back Of st. George landing the ground
rises rapidly by means Of a series Of beau
tiful terraces, along which may be found
the abode of wealth and beauty. From
these terraces the game of ball may be seen
readily if any one will step to the window
overlooking the harbor. The rent of houses
goes up every summer along the terraces
because spectacular shows and base bail
games may be seen freely by means OF a
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-09
A more pleasant physic
You never VIII ind
Than Plerce's small Pellets, "
me EurEatiVa Kind.

Travis. ''What, going into the Adiron-
dacks vi hout guide? ''
DeSmIth; COT course. Do YOU suppose
a man who has. Jrotted around Boston for
i've years IS going to lose his way in the
AdIrondacks? Not much -
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-09

Man Of the house; 'sWhat's this little
bundle?''
QBOy; cts your wife's dress they told me
to bring around"
where's the bilI?''
ooh, they'll have to send that around in
the wagon