The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-21
The Concord Times says:

to the want Of Improvements on our
streets. We need more lamps. We need
general cleaning of streets. Think
about the impression that is left in your
mind when you visit other towns with
bad streets.
The Boston Pilot says:
"If you care for the comfort of your
horses take off ell the check>reins and
destroy them. Nature knows how q
horse ought to hold his head. The check
rein Is torture and barbariSm. No mat
ter what else you forget about horse,
remember this. You can't forget it any
way; and even if you keep on the check
rein after this you will never look at it
without knowing that you are dong a
cruel thing.
If the farmers think that there is wis
ION in selling cotton at s cents pound
and buying pressed meat at II cents
pound, they are simply mistaken. And
just as long as they are willing to let
| their meat be pscked for them in Chicago
| and their corn grown away from their
| own farms. just SO long will they be poor
and remain so.
| CONFERENCE.-The frequently hear COM
plants that our subscribers do not get
their papers promptly. 1t is not our fault.
Papers are sent out from this Office with
fair promptness every Wednesday after
noon, and there our responsibility ceases
and the governments begins. A sub
>criber from South Carolina recently
wrote to us inquiring about his paper
If your subscription is paid up and YOU
don't get your paper it is not our fault.
The Smithfield Herald says:
-"That trucking pays in this sec
r!on Is attested by the fact that last year
| Ives Bros cleared $50 on three-fourths
of an acre planted in strawberries. while
those OF our farmers who planted cotton
| did not clear that sum from ten times
the same quantity Of land as was planted
| by them in strawberries. Yes, trucking
pays, and handsomely ut that "
THE DEMOCRAT advised for trucking
last spring and it doese the same again.
The season will soon be upon the
College graduate fresh from his alma
Mater. when he will anxiously look
| around for place ts display his talents.
1t may be worth something to him to
read and reflect upon the following:
Yes, father" he said to old Mr.
IIaYseed, i've graduated, and my edu-
cation is complete. s'Spose | know
everything. Now | must choose field
where my capabilities can be used to the
y, 1 | fol
where | have plenty of ROOM" Son"
replied the old man, there is a ten-acre
corn.field, and you can have it all to
yourself"
DIFD.-At her home near Scotland
Neck on last Friday morning Miss Polly
Bell, an aged maiden lady generally
known in the community as AUNT
Polly''
She was remarkable woman. Per
haps 55 or so years old, she had lived
entirely alone, working her own little
farm, and bringing the surplus produce
to town in a bag on her shoulder or hip.
! She lived about 4 miles away and she
sometimes brought to town in the hottest
weather two or three bags of melons in a
day, going and coming as many times.
She was in town Wednesday and died
Friday.
Mr. George R. French Of Wilmington
died at his home in tia. city on last Fri
day. He was in his SSth year and was
one of the best and most beloved citizens
of the State He was born in Troy
Mass, in 1902, but has lived in North
Carolina since 1922. His memory will
| live in the hearts of many people till the
present generation shall all follow hun to
the narrow prison house Of death.
We clip the following from the Char
| lotte Democrat;
The only factory in the world for max
ing cern-cob pipes is at Washington, Mo.
| The five stockholders in it are drawing
dividends of $4,000 year each. In
1873 H. Tibbc received patent for a
cement like substance' with which TO
| fill the interstices of cObs, the sail sub
stance being plaster Of Paris, and his
royalty on his patent amounts to $500
! 3 month. The machinery for making the
pipes is simple, and an expert hand can
turn out 3, 600 of them in ten hours.
The Wilson mirror has entered upon
its eighth volume. 1t is the peer af any
paper in tie United States in word-psint-
ings and melliiuous phrases. Henry
Blount can ontwritc any writer in the
country if you count the easy and correct
use of words in the calculation. We con.
graduate the Mirror on its ten thousand
scintillati0nS Of wise and witty sayings
which must do GOOD where they fall. May
it still prosper.
PASSENGERS CONfPLAIN.-Ne do no
wish to be considered meddlesome, bu
we shall not longer forbear in speakins
of that which is Of general interest to til,
public.
A lew mornings ago We took seat OF
the cars for Halifax and almost every
man on the car was grumbling, 1t wa:
cold and there was very little, if any
fire in the stoves. One of the best mel
of this town sal to us that Il week beFor,
he had contracted a cold on the cars il
consequence Of q lack Of fire in the stoves
and he sail if it happened again he woul(
sue the Railroad company.
Then the car did not seem to have beer
busted at all.
Passengers were complaining heavil,