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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-10-03
The Habit Of Saving.

SrIecteH.
The French suffer less from panlcs
and depressions than any other people
on the globe. and it is because thrift
i, the basis of their prosperity.
In France nearly every person saves
something for a rainy day. The habit
i almost universal, and those who earn
the least are sure to be found in the
great saving class. The French savings
banks have more than S,OOO,t 600 depos-
itors. and their deposits amount to
about 100000 900 and this large sum
is made up of small amounts.
The French schools teach the child
ron to save money. and the most fre-
quent prize given to a bright child IS
savings bank book With a small sum to
tho credit of the owner. This is given
where II this country we would give q
medal or a book.
When q community has lot OF
money deposited in savings banks 1t Is
easy to borrow money without going to
outside capitalists The local banks
are prepared to loan to home people at
! moderate interest. In large cities
and factory towns OF the Eastern States
the savings banks are the great safe
guards of the poor wage earners against
hard times. and if the saving habit was
as general here as in France our people
would have passed the recent financial
depression without seriously feeling It.
Every child should be taught the
,nnortance Of saving, without beng
avaricious or nlggardly. We need
more thrift. The average American
wage Garner wastes enough IN llfe0me
to make him comfortable IN his oid
,oe. We should take lesson from the
French in this respect, 1hey kho"
how to enjoy life and at the same time
work hard and save money
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-10-03
THE WORKING WOMAN
NOT THE NEW WOMAN"
The Emancipation Of Labor
oy Machinery.

a r. Outefbr1dge, Jr., Eag5neerinG
Magazine.
one Of the interesting proofs Of the
tightening Of toll by the aid OF machln-
cry is found in the constantly enlarging
sphere Of labor beng opened to self
supporting women, and the prediction
Is here made that within the next
quarter Of 4 century the ranks Of the
mechanic viii be largely augmented by
women.
Statistics show that the number OF
women to whom the sewing machine
gives occupation to-day is vastly greater
than the number who formerly gained
a precarious livelihood with the needle
or who could obtain similar work under
old conditions.
Contrast the "work-a-day" clothes
and simply made "Sunday-go-to-meet-
in'' garments Of the people of century
ago with the wonderful variety and
complexity Of inery comprising the
holiday attire, and, indeed, the every
day wearing apparel. of those of sim
lar class to-day. If 1t is true, as stated
tnat one sewing machine operated by
one woman Will do the work of ten
band sewers. it is no less true that the
modern woman possess ten times as
many garments as her sister of a former
age, and each garment displays ten
times as much machine e-seWed work
upon it.
But the sewing machine is mere
suggestion The mind is fairly stag
gered in contemplation of the wealth
Of opportunity for wage earners that
has been created by the steam engine
especially in the form of the steam
ship and locomotive, which have liter
ally opened new worlds to the old worlds
poor And what is true Of the steam
engine is true only IN lesser degree OF the
telegraph, the telephone, the electric
motor. the turbine and the whole range
of modern agricultural machinery.
The modern bicycle-a theoretically
perfect invention, and in some respects
an almost perfect mechanism-has al
ready produced beneficial effects upon
the physical development of the wage
caring class sufficiently marked to
attract general notice, and its future
Influence is incalculable. It's destined,
i'll my judgment, to emancipate woman
from many Of the conventional shackles
which have bound her tor ages, and
from some physical disabilities which
have hitherto limited her sphere of
occupation This is only one of the
many striking instances in which in
vention is helping to benefit the masses
| am convinced that modern mechan-
ical inventions have in all cases proved
to be distinctively beneficial to the wage
Garner. He is through their aud better
housed, better fed, better clothed, better
educated, has more numerous and
better amusements, and Is thus ap-
proaching more nearly the condition
Of life of the employer indeed, the
wage Garner to-day enjoys many advan-
tages of civilization which were un-
known to the employer of genera
ton gone by.
The majority Of employers in this
country are men who have risen from
the ranks, and many of our most i'm
portant inventions have been made by
wage earners, who have the best oppor-
tunitv, through experience in their
daily work, to learn the necessities OF
the age.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-10-03
inconsistencies.
.StutesuiUe landmark K

StutesuiNe Landmark.
The world is full of strange inconsls-
tencies There was never so much
talk of hard times IN North Carolina
and there were never 50 many visitors
IN the mountains Of the State as there
we're during the past summer there
We're never SO many excursions nor
excursions SO largely patronlzed. The
colleges and high schools have opened
this fall with a larger attendance than
ever before, and school attendance Is
universally accounted one Of the best
barometers of the prosperity Of the
people. Some people have money
there is no mistake about that and
when a street fakir comes along with a
patent medicine for sale, or a peddler
with a pack on his back, or a range
man, or a fellow selling a tWo-dollar
clock for fifteen, there are those who
cough up cash who would never lie
suspected of having dollar in the
world
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-10-03

For more than hundred years the
Cbol,ors have been studying the rene
dial properties of plants. They nave
made many discoveries. but their great
o.t achievement was made last year II
: ! cordial that contains already a.
oosted food and is digester Of TODD II
: effective in removing distress alter
eating. and creates an appetite Tor
more food SO that eating becomes a
nleasure. Pale. thin people become
arra-ts rr,s-t ! tne wasting Of CONSUMPTION
There never has been such step
for,ara in the cure Of indigestion as
this Shaker Cordial. Your drussl5l i51
Vii Vii be clad to give you little book
descriptive of the product.
Give the babies Laxol, when Is eas-
tor oil made as palatable as Honey
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-10-03
HOW MY BOY WENT DOWN.

| t was not on the field OF battle,
It was pot with a ship at sea
But a fate tar worse than either
That stole him away from me.
twas the death IN the ruby vine cup,
That the reason and senses drown
He drank the alluring poison,
And thus my bOv went down.
Down from the heights Of manhood,
To the depths Of disgrace and sin
Down to the worthless being,
From the hopes that might have
been
For the brand of a beast besotted,
He bartered his manhoOd's crown:
Through the gate of a sinful pleasure
Ny poor, weak boy went down.
'Tis only the same Old story
That mothers so often tell,
With accents of infinite sadness,
Like the tones OF a funeral bell
But | never thought once when | heard
/ should learn all its meaning myself :;
| thought he'd be true to his mother,
thought he'd be true to himself
But alas Tor my hopes, all delusion
Alas for his youthful pride
Alas who are safe when danger
Is open on every side?
q, can nothing destroy this great evil?
No bar in their pathway be thrown,
10 save from lie terrible maelstr0m
THO +boI,capI- 1T boNc ,rDipQ da.tp2
-Splected
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-10-03
Vanderb;lt's Buncombe Taxes.

Charlotte NeUS.
There is a pretty little fellow by the
name Of Geo. W. Vanderbilt who llyes
up in Asheville and who is Just the
RIGHT kind of a citizen to have now
a-days. He is unmarried and many
maIdens have sighed for him in vain
and although he isn't much as to size
himself, he has millions of money and
if he tildn't make these by the sweat OF
his brow vet they were come by honest
IL and not Ly wrecking and stealing
railroads. 1t is interesting TO know
lust what his tax-list in Buncombe
county is. Here 1t Is 64 horses, value
sc 700: 76 mules, $500; III cattle,
S2. $50: G5 hogs. 1925 73 sheep, $3.50 ;
farming utensils. 81 500 household and
kitchen furniture, $4,000; library,
$500; scientific instruments, $50 ;
money on hand. S3,475: other prop
ertv. SIS .OOO. This with the biggest
item. l7,1i2 acres Of land. valued at
$3.50. $40, makes total valuation OF
1865. 400. and Mr. NanderbiIt's taxes
for 1895 will be $5,I16.41
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-10-03

The mayor Of St. Petersburg has
ordered the name Of every individual
who is found drunk to be posted in
specific public places and printed in
the Off cial Gazette. \ good idea
Scientific American.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-10-03

When Baoy was SICK. \Te gave her Castoria
When she was a Child she cred Tor CaStoria>
When she became Miss. che clung to Castoria.
yteu 10 TT Children, she gave them Castoria
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-10-03
AREGULATOR ?

Are you taking SIMMONS LIVER REG
ULAToR, the "KING OF LIVER MEDI-
CINEs?' That is what our readers
want, and nothing but that. 1t is the
same old friend to which the old folks
pinned their faith and were never dis
appointed. But another good recon-
mendation for it is, that it is BETTER
THAN PILLS. never gripes, never weak
ems, but works in such an easy and
natural way, just like nature itself. that
rellef comes quick and sure, and one
feels new all over. 1t never fails.
Everybody needs take liver remedy.
and everyone should take only Sim
mons Liver Regulator.
BE sure you get it. The Red II
is on the wrapper. J. III. Zeilin 81
Co., Philadelphia.
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odds and ends that he had gathered from
the engines-little things like nuts and valve
spindles all carefully tallowed-and retired
with them under the floor of the engine
rccm where he sighed, being fat, as he
passed from manhole tG manhole of the
double bottom, and in some fairly dry sub
marine compartment hid them. Any en-
gineer particularly in an unfriendly port,
has a right to keep his spare stores where
he chooses, and the foot of one of the cylin-
der shores blocked all entrance into the
regular store room. even If that had not been
already closed with steel wedges. In con-
clusion he disconnected the after engine,
laid piston and connecting rod, carefully
tallowed where it would be most incon-
venient to the casual visitor. took out three
them where only he could find them again;
filled the boilers by hand; wedged the sliding
doors of the coal bunkers, and rested from
his labors The engine room was a ceme-
terry, and 1t did not need a bucket full OF
ashes tipped over the skylight to make it
any worse.
He invited the skipper to look at the COM
pleted work.
Saw ye ever such a forsaken wreck as
that?" said he, proudly. ut almost frights
me to go under those shores. Now, what
d'you think they'll do to us?''
wait till we see," said the skipper. It'll
be bad enough when 1t comes"
He was not wrong. The pleasant days of
towing ended all too soon, though the
Haliotis trailed behind her heavily weight
ed jib stayed out into the shape of q
pocket, and Mr.. Wardrop was no longer an
artist of Imagination, but one of seven and
twenty prisoners in prison full Of insects
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The man-of-war lowed sullenly and vicious
ly. The Haliotis behind her hummed like
hive before swarming. With extra and
totally unneeded spars her crew blocked
up the space round the forward engine till
the butts of the shores interfered with
every view that dispassonate eye might
wish to take. And that the dispassonate
mind might be swiftly shaken out of its
calm, the well-sunk bolts of the shores
were wrapped round untidily with loose
ends of ropes, giving a studied effect of
most dangerous IL security. Next Mr.. Ward
rop took up collection from the after en-
CINE, which, as you will remember, had not
teen affected in the general wreck. The
cylinder escape valve he abolished with
f1ogging hammer. 1t is difficult in far-of
ports to come by such valves unless. like
Mr.. Wardrop, you keep duplicates in store.
At the same time men took off the nuts of
two of the great holding-doWn bolts that
Serve to keep the engines iE place on their
solid bed. Any engine violently arrested in
ul:d-career may jerk off the nut of a hold
ing-down bolt, and this accident looked very
natural.
Passing along the tunnel he removed sew
eral shaft coupling bolts and nuts, scatter
ing other and ancient pieces of iron under
foot Any engine stopped suddenly may dis
organize her shaft coupling bolts, and this
accident seemed even more natural Cylin-
der bolts he cut off to the number of six
from, the after engine cylinder, SO that 1t
miIst match its neighbor, and stuffed the
hilge feed pumps with cotton waste. Then
he made up a neat bundle of the various
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months beyond knowledge-and 1t was
promised that all would be Forgotten.
The little governor of the little port was
pleased with himself. Seven-and-tWenty
white men made a very compact force TO
throw away on a war that had neither pc
ginning nor end-a jungle-and -stockade
fight that f1ickered and smoldered throush
the wet hot years in the hills a hundred
miles away, and was the heritage OF every
wearied official. He had, he thought, de-
served we'll, of his country; and II only
some one would buy the unhappy Haliotis,
moored in79Re harbor below his Veranda,
his cup would be full. He looked at the
neatly silvefed lamps that he had taken
from her cabins, and thought of much that
might be turned to account. But his coun-
trymen in that moist climate had no spirit.
They would peep into the silent engine
room and shake their heads. Even the
men-of-war would not tow her further up
the coast, where the governor believed that
she could be repaired. She was bad bar
gain; but her cabin carpets were unde-
niably beautiful, and his wife approved Of
her mirrors.
Three hours later cables were bursting
round him like shells, for, though he knew
it not, he was being offered as sacrifice
by the neither to the upper milestone. and
his superiors had no regard for his feelings.
He was, said the cables, an ass, who had
exceeded his power, and failed to report on
events. He would, therefore,-at this he
cast himself back in his hammock-produce
the crew Of the Haliotis He would send
for them, and If that failed he would put
his dignity a pony and fetch them him.
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news travels quickly; and when it came out
that the pearl-stealing crew had not been
allowed access to the consul there was no
consul within a few hundred miles of that
lonely porD even the friendliest of powers
has right to ask questions. The great
heart of the British public was beating
furiously on account of the performance of
a notorious race horse, and had not a throb
to waste on distant accidents; but some
where deep in the hull of the ship of state
there is machinery which more or less ac-
curately takes charge of foreign affairs.
That machinery began to revolye, and who
SO panied and surprised as the power that
had captured the Haliotis? 1t explained
that colonial governors and far away men,
of-war were difficult to control, and prom
ised that it would most certainly make an
example both Of the governor and the ves-
sci. AS to the crew reported to be pressed
into military service in tropical chimes, it
would produce them as soon as possible
and 1t would apologize If necessary. Now
no apologies were needed. When one ma
ton apologies to another millions of anna
teurs who have no earthly concern with
the difficulty hurl themselves into the strife
and embarrass the trained specialist 1t
was requested that the crew be found If
they were still alive-they had been eight
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world ove". and mil ht have amounted to
more than hundred pounds.
Hes left me alone Let's thank God"
repeated Mr.. iWardrop.
Hes taken everything else-lookr'
The Haliotis, except as to her engine
room, had been Systematically and scien-
tifically Quilted from one end to the other
and there was strong evidence that an un-
clean guard had camped in the shippers
cabin to regulate the plumber She lacked
glass, plate, crockery, cutlery, mattresses,
cuddy carpet and chairs, all boats and her
copper ventilators. These things had been
removed, with her sails and as much of the
wire rigging as would not imperil the
safety of the masts.
He must have sold those" said the skip
per. THE other things are in his house, 1
suppose"
Every fitting that could be pried or
screwed out was gone. Port, starboard and
masthead lights, teak grating, sliding
sashes of the deck house, the captain S
chest Of drawers, with charts and chart
table, photographs. brackets and looking
glasses, cabin doors, rubber cuddy mats,
hatch irons, half the funnel stays. cork
tenders, carpenters er.nastone and tool
chest, holyssoa"s. swabs, squeegees, all
cabin and pantry lamps, galley fittings en-
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in the tights of a ballet dancer rolling drunk
along the streets and you will come to some
faint notion of the appearance OF that nine
hundred ton weIl-decked once schooner-rig
ged cargo boat as she staggered under her
new canvas, shouting and raving across the
deep. With steam and sail that marvellous
voyage continued and the bright-eyed crew
looked over the rail, desoate, unkempt, un-
shorn, shamelessly clothed-beyond the de-
cencies.
At the end of the third week she sighted
the island of Pygang-Watai, whose harbor
Is the turning point of pearling sea patrol.
Here the gunboats stay for a week ere they
retrace their line. There is no village at
Pygang-Watai: only a stream Of water,
Sc me palms and a harbor safe To rest in till
the first violence of the southeast monsoon
has blown itself out. They opened up the
low coral beach, with its long mound Of
whitewashed coal ready for supply, the de-
serted huts for the sailors and the fagless
flag staff.
Next day there was no Haliotis-only
little prau rocking in the warm rain at the
mouth of the harbor, whose crew watched
with hungry eyes the smoke of a gunboat on
the horizon.
Months afterward there were a few lines
in an English paper to the effect that some
gunboat of some foreign power had broken
her back at the mouth of some PARKWAY har-
Dor by running at full speed into a sunken
wreck.
CThe end)
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pause to prove, but held on at an inspirit-
Ing eleven knots an hour till nightfall. One
thing only had he overlooked.
The power that kept an expensive steam
patrol moving up and down those waters
the skipper had lodged the two regular
ships of the station with an ease that bred
contempO had newly brought up third and
q fourteen-knot boat with a clean bottom to
heip the work; and that was why the Hall
otis, driving hard from the east to the west.
found herself at daylight in such a position
that she could not help seeing an arrange
pent OF four flags mile and half behind
which read: "Heave to. or take the corse-
2uences."
She had her choice and she took It, and
me end came when, presuming on her light
y draft and international etiquette aho
aTied to draw away northward over; f.
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declared that the piston had not split, they
cheered and thought nothing of their
wounds, and the donkey engine was hastily
stopped, for its boiler was no thing to
t;tmrer with. And day by day their sup
plies reached them by boat Tile skipper
hunbled himself once more before the gov
ernor, and as a concession had leave to get
drinking water from the Malay boat build
er on the quay. 1t was not good drinking
water but the Malay was anxious to sup
ply anything in his power If he were paid
for 1t.
Now when the jaws of the forward engine
stood, as it'were, stripped and empty, they
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stand me when I say that this is in no sense
regular engineerin'."
As all his raiment. when he spoke, was his
gray beard and uncut hair, they believed
HIM They did not ask too much of what
they met, but polished and tallowed and
scraped it to a false hrilliancy
"A lick of paint would make me easier
in my mind said Mr.. Wardrop, plaintively
I know half the condenser tubes are start
ed; and the propeller shaftin's God knows
now FAR out of the true, and We'll need a new
air pump, an the main steam leaks like a
sieve, and there's worse each way l look,
hut-paint's like clothes to a man, an ours
IS near all gone"
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Her nationality was British. but you
will not find her house-nas IN the LIST Of
our mercantile marine She was Il nine
hundrel-ton, iron, schooHer-risged, screw,
cargo boat, differing externally in no way
from any other tramp OF the But it
Is with gtea mers as 1t is with men. There
are those who will for consideration sail
extremely close to the wind; and, in TIE
present state of our fallen world, such peo-
pie and such steamers have their use. From.
tie hour that the Agla;a first entered the
Clyde-new. shiny and innocent-with a
quart of cheap champagne trickl;ng down
her cut-water-Fate and her owner, who
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PART ".

importing frivolous side issues into the
conversation, and the crew cursed one an
other and the Haliotis, and all that they
knew or could bring to mind. Then they
sat down in silence on the empty decks,
and their eyes burned in their heads. The
green harbor water chucked at them over
side. They looked at the palm fringed hills
inland; at. the white houses above the
harbor road, at the single tire of native
craft by the quay, at the stolid soldiery
sitting around the one cannon, and, last
of all, at the blue bar of the horizon. Mr..
Wardrop was buried in thought, and
scratched imaginary lines with his untrim-
med finger nails on the planking.
Il make no promise" he said at last.
for can't say what may or may not have
happened to them. But here's the ship,
and here's u.s.
There was a little scornful laughter at
this, and Mr.. Wardrop knitted his brows.
He recalled that in the days when he wore
trousers he had been chief engineer of
the Haliotis
.'Harland, Macksey. Noble, Hay, Naugh-
ton, Fink, OHara, Turnbull."
Here, sir!" The instinct of obedience
walked to answer the roll-call of the en-
CINE room. ..r<-
Below"
They rose and went ai"-
Captain. I'll trouble you for the rest of
the men as I want them. Wen get my
stores out, and clear away the stores We
don't need. and then we'll patch her up
My men will remember that they're in the
Halotis under me-
He went into the engine room and the
others stared. They were used to the acct