The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-02
NEWSY 'GRAPHS
HERE AND ELSEW HERE
WISE AND OTHERWISE.

THANKs.-THE DEMOCRAT has been
requested by Miss Lena Smith to thank
Mess. ID. Edmondson, Nj. Hoffman aud
W. II. Kitchn for assisting in repairing
the wallIng around the grounds of the
female academy.
A GOOD CHANCE.-Our free offer oil
the American FARMER Is fine opportu-
nity for our farmer readers. That paper
alone would cost you a dollar, but you
get it for nothing if you take up with
our proposition.
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years subscription.
Moss BACK.-An exchange defines a
! moss back as "a person who can De
found IN aim ost every community, who
hates enterprise so much that he won't
subscribe for his home paper, but spoons
ges it from his neghbor in order to find
out local news.
You PULL TOGETHER'.-Ag gentle
man living in the country near Scotland
Neck and beng much interested in the
progress of the town said to US Saturday
that the people of Scotland Neck are
agreed IN their notions of how to builC
! up the town. You pull together,' he
p, said. And after all, great secret lie'
in this, for truly lin union there i:
5trength,'
THE BEST YET.-A gentleman writing
to the editor from another town in Eas
Q tern Carolina says that he thinks tn
building of the military school the hes
enterprise THE DEMOCRAT has set going
He thinks that Scotland Neck will realiz
more advantage from this than from an
+. work its citizens have commenced,
WE WANT THE NEWS. We shall b
glad to furnish postal cards to any col
respondent who will send us the new
from his locality 1t will bring you
community before the public and thu
do you good. as we'll as add to the inteIe'
OF the paper. Upon application we vi
{ send you the postal cards.
WORDS OF wLSDOM-The man WI
S. wants to secure a healthy, muscul'
, heart ill old age must be abstemlous
s all things, and mast take regular exc
S else,
Sc who ever heard of slandering bad ma
: Who ever heard Of counterfeiting a b;
If note? SANDER as rule, is the IeyeDi
ia of coward 1t IS generally the be
people who are injured IN this way.
When y ca make mistake don't LOO
SIS back at it long. Take the reason OF Il
s. thing in to your own mind and then lot
% forward. Mistakes are lessons of W
dom. The past cannot be changed. T
$, future is yet in your Aate|hge
es Ger.
REA. W. S. SwANN.-Rev. W S. Swan
y pastor Of Of Nahala Presbyterian churc
OK preached in the Methodist church of tt
place last Sunday morning and in t
-, Baptist church at night.
cl lie hadl arge congregations and his 81
u mons were pcll received In the MOI
ing he preached from Hebrews ST., a
s. at night from Revelation 3: 20. [
he theme for his morning sermon W;
. 1.-The Priesthood Of Christi The serm
ne beautifully illustrated the substitutions
work of the Savior and the boundle
ness Of his love to man.
ds 1t was not the writer's pleasure
De hear the sermon at night, bat we vs.
told that the sermon was able and VI
)S' received by the large and attentive c.
49,. 40, gregation.
FROM SwITzERLAND.- While in
Ds. large corn mills in Weldon few d;
ago, we learned several inter estng thin
az In examining the boltin1 department
"' We're informed that the cloth Is made
NC Switzerland and that every mesh is Of
81. same size. Children begin to work
the manufacture, say at ten or TIVE
-. years old. They begin on the coars
or cloth and gradually work UP to the fir
les BY the time they are . years cid t
res. are sufficiently expert to work on
very finest. They WORK on the fiji
eg quality for about five years, and t
- to their eyes fail and they gradullY "
back on the coarser cloth until they "