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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-03-08
Notice..

BY virtue of power in me vested by
that Deed of Trust which was executed
to me by George B. Blackburn and his
wife Mollie, which is duly recorded in
the Registers Office for Halifax county,
In book 124, on page 1876, shall sell
for Cash at auction in the town of
Scotland Neck, on the 18th day of
March, 1890, the property therein de-
scribed, to-wit: That land in Halifax
township, bounded by the lands of q.
NJ. Bradley, J. P. Ellen, and }. T.
Whitaker and containing 338 &C. es,
more or less.
Feb. II, 1900 w. A. DUNN,
2-15-4t Trustee.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-03-08
Brought Back From s antiago.

Tuesday afternoon the remains o.
a victim of the Spanish war passed
Scotland Neck on the afternoon train.
1t was the body of Mr.. J. J. Council
being carried to Conoho in Martin
county. He died at Santiago last Au.
gust and the body was shipped to New
York and thence to Conoho to his bro
Their.
Mr. Council was telegraph operator
in the signal service and the casket
bere the intelligence that he was "ser-
geant OF the Signal Corps"
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Old Prices for Good Stuff.

DOUGH1 BEFORE
THE ADVANCE,
Pride OF the Valley Corn, 9Oc. dozen.
Early June Peas (Iiose Bud9, 9Oc. d0z.
Best Tomatoes. 81 90 per dozen.
Californf. Pears, 2Oc.
California Aprlco.s; zoo.
Fine Yellow Peaches, 18c.
Lemon Cling, 221c.
II. j. Heinz & Co.'S Mince Meat, Sc.
Fl. j. Heinz IL Cos Pickles (CucumberA
%. dozen.
Fancy Apl,o e ID. CAM 1Oc.
Imperial Jelly, 124c. Primes, Sc.
Dried Apples (Sun Dried) Sc.
String Beans, 124c.
Honiny, Girls, Beans, Peas, Tripe
Tongues, Corned Beef, Boneless Pig
Feet, and everything good to eat.
OUR NEW LINE.
Crockery, Glass ware, Lamps, Flower
Pots, Jardiniers, etc. This department
will have special attention. Call and
sec our pretty things.
Our 5 and 10 cent specialties. The
Wonder of the Age. To arrive March
LIST. Everything is advancing, but we
have found a place where many articles
are still: low.
All kinds of Country Produce want
I'd. MORRISETT BROS.
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Shipped To Manila.

Mr.. "A. S. Dunn says he has been en-
gagged for the greater part of the last
six months in cutting at his mills near
Enfield 50 Car loads OF cross arms for
telegraph poles. The timber was ship
ped from Enfield to Norfolk where it
was finished up properly and then ship
ped directly to Manila.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-03-08

KEEP your blood rich and red by
taking ROBERTS TAsTELEss CHILL. Ton
&c. 25c. Pleasant to take. Cures
chllls by purifying the blood, and pro-
ducing appetite, health and vigor.
Try it and get the genuine, with red
cross on label. For sale by, E. T..
Whitehead & Co. Druggists.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-03-08
You Or Your Friend Or Some One Else

Mr. OIlen E. Warren, of Greenville
was here today.
Mr.. N. Biggs left Tuesday for Rich
mond to purchase stock.
Mrs Pugh returned few days agt
from visit to Richmond.
Mr.. A. L. Pennington has gone NORTH
to purchase spring goods.
Mr.. George Bryan, who has been Al
Parmele some time, is home again.
Miss Bessie Simmons has returned
from visit to friends in South Car
DINA.
Mr.. John B. Tillery, OF Tillery, has
been here few days visiting bis child.
rrn.
Mrs. E. w. Hyman returned few
days ago from visit to relatives in
Eogecombe.
Mrs. Fountain, of Rocky Mount, is
here on visit to Mesdames b. D.
Gray and j. E. Hancock.
Mr.. NJ, Hoffman left Tuesday NOR
ming for Northern markets, where he
will purchase spring goods.
Miss Eva Pritchard has gone to Ko-
per in Washington county where she
will spend sometime teaching.
Mess. K. B. Scull and James Will
Iiams, of Northampton county, were
here last week on visit to Mrs. A.
Vaughan.
Rev. John Mitchell, D. D., of Wake
Forest, visited friends here last Satur-
day and Sunday. He preached in the
Baptist church Sunday morning.
Col. A. Prescott, of Weldon, is in
the community to-day on business
with his-office as county
of public instruction.
Mr.. ]. B. Parks, of Apex, is in town
after Ii years absence. This Is Mr..
Parks old home and he expresses him.
self as greatly surprised and pleased at
The growth and development of Scotland
Neck.
Miss Katie Foster returned Monday
liter two months absence. She will
De with Mrs. w. III. White in the mil
inery business this season. Her
riends are glad to welcome her back
md to have her good services again.
"YIELD1NG to the persuasion of my
lealer, l changed chill tonic and tried
or1 found thu l>oe% r -,,~-
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-03-08

A. R. DE Fluent, editor of the Jour.
nal, Doylestown, Ohio, suffered for a
number of years from rheumatism in
Ills right shoulder and side. He says
"My right arm at times was entirely
useless. I tried Chamberlain's Pain
Balm, and was surprised to receive rel
ief almost Immediately. The Pain
Balm has been constant companion
of mine ever since and 1t never fails. y
For sale by f. T. Whitehead & Co.
Druggists.
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We have saved many doctor bills
since we began using Chamberlain 3
Cough Remedy in our home. We
keep bottle open all the time and
whenever any of my family or mysel:
begin to catch cold we begin to use the
Cough Remeqy, and as a result we
never have to send away for a doctor
and incur large doctor bill, for Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy never fails to
cure. 1t is certainly a medicine of
of great merit and worth.-D. S. Near
kle, General Merchant and Farmer,
Matte, Bedford county, Pa. For sale
by, e. T. Whitehead & Co. Druggists
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-03-08

CH1TLs, fevers and malaria yield to
ROBERTS CHILL Tonic, if you get: the
genuine, with red cross on label. 25c
No cure, no pay.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-03-08

Sec our new Sprlnf
hoes and Hats. Are nov
n. B. JOsEY.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-03-08

"YIELD1NG to the persuasion of my
dealer, changed chill tonic and tried
ROBERTS, and found it the best I ever
used, and shall continue its use." w.
II. Corprew, GAINESVILLE, N. c., to the
Roberts Drug Co., Suffolk, Va, August
IA, 1899. 25c. per polite. Look tor
the red cross.
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ES FOR SALE.
Chat.

pgton, who went Tues
lork left a little mes
readers of The
WEALTH in Scot
eck and COM
ty and here
what he said
to open Spring Goods
ke WANAM AKER'S,
POSE to GIVE MY
D GOOD BARGAINS
IS they could get at
Philadelphia, or any
pur money until you
6pring Stock,
70 maze replete in
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-03-08
900
Jour

q barrel Of Our Point Lace on
b Blossom Flour. We can find
better. Every barrel guaranteed
'ney refunded.
Ne Syrup, Gunpowder and Oolong
GCcha and Java coffee.
w. H. AILSBROOK,
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-03-08

pDS.-Are being received
will tell you more about
eeel.. n. B. JOsEY.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-03-08

Kermott's Chocolates Laxative Quinine fol
cold in the head and sore throat. Children talk
them like candy.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1900-03-08

Miss Katie Foster returned Monday
after two months absence. She will
be with Mrs. w. HI. White in the mil
linery business this season. Her
friends are glad to welcome her back
and to have her good services again.
The age-herald., 1900-08-12

As the Argonaut says, the workman with too little intelligence to get to his work on time without having hint dinned into his ears could not perform the task when he arrived. Nor is it possible to imagine that he could not know that was quitting time unless the whistles sounded the alarm. Yet the whistles continue to order the toiler out of bed, to breakfast, to the shop, and back home again. Perhaps he has learned to depend upon them, but he could easily do without them ---ey are relic of ancient times when a watch was not in the pocket of every man, with the pos sible exception of Mayors, and everybody did not own clock
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No Joke In T hat
the Brooklyn Life.

From the Brooklyn Life.
 You Americans" said the London young man, as he stopped sucking his cane "are always insinuating that we Englishmen don't know what real joke is. Now, just hold your sizes while I go over this one which L read in home paper a week ago: The Countess-M'lord, you were at the grand dinner last night, were you not? Just while ago heard one of those vul- gar Americans make the remark that this morning you had a big head.
 The Duke-But, m'lady, there's noth- ing in it. "
 The American looked as sober as a criminal court judge.
 'Well?" he asked.
 Don't you see,' explained the dusgusted Britisher, poking the other in the ribs with his cane, "the Countess says some one accused her companion (haD of hav- ing big head Cha! haD, and he declares (p-ahl haD there's nothing in itl''
 "Yes, but"
 "Blasted idiocy, but what?'
 Her companion was a Duke"
 "Yes."
 And not any different from the rest of the English nobility?"
 No. But the joke the joke! It is so adroitly put. In apparent inadvertence" desperately "the Duke admits there is nothing in his head Now do you see?'
 Well, it's a little strange that the Duke could make such frank and candid ad- mission, but-where does the joke come imp
The age-herald., 1900-08-12

Mems canvas Balls, light or dark colors coin toe. made of heavy duck, strong and ever lasting regular price $2.OO; during this sale at Sl.49
The age-herald., 1900-08-12

and even if his presence at the concert had been solicited only by the guest with whom he went the public rebuke which MT. Astor administered to the Baronet would have been in bad taste. As it is, Astor has made himself so offensive to the Queen, to the Prince and Princess of Wales and to the Duke and Duchess of York, that he has found it convenient to get out of London until the storm blows over-if it ever does. An American who will give up the posi- tion which William Waldorf Astor enjoyed in New York to become a pseudo aristocrat deserves all of the modification that has come to him.
The age-herald., 1900-08-12
She Was Sensitive
Baltimore American.

From the Baltimore American
 "Your face is like an open book" sighed MT. Softeigh to Miss Gooph, accompany ing the remark with what he thought was his most winning smile.
 If had as big a mouth as yours would not talk about other peoples, sniff ed the young lady as she flounced out or the room, thus teaching the young man to
The age-herald., 1900-08-12
William waldorf's Astor's thunder
om the Kansas City Star.


 MT. Astor's blunder in publishing the name of Captain Milne in the Pail Mall Gazette as an uninvited guest at the Astor concert is all the more embarrassing in the light of the disclosure that the captain was bidden to the entertainment by Miss Astor. He was not an interloper or an intruder,
The age-herald., 1900-08-12
The Noisy Steam Whistle

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Commenting on the anti-noise crusade, tho San Francisco Argonaut calls atten- ton to two nuisances that might easily be avoided. One is that of the steam whistle which blows in the morning to tell the workman that it is time to go to work.
The age-herald., 1900-08-12
In General DIsfavor

Don't talk to me about third party!" exclaimed the old politician. third party is always a fraud"
 "He's awfully in the way sometimes assented the politicians pretty daughter.
The age-herald., 1900-08-12
YIN MARIANI
Mariani WIne-WorId Famous Tenic

A restorer of the Vital Forces. Win Mari ami Is a perfectly safe and reliable diffusi- ble tonic and stimulant 1t gives strength and vigor to body, brain and nerves; it fortifies against disease; 1t nourishes, sus- tains and refreshes the entire system.
 All Druggists. Refuse Substitutes.
The age-herald., 1900-08-12
The Consolidated Electric Light Co.
 Corner Powell and Nineteenth Street.

cling to the good, old unmistakable taffy. talk when he desires to be compliment tary.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-12-25
THE CHINESE PUZZLE.

The Chinese matter muddles. The
question now up is are the terms to be
i~rrevocable? Why ask. when the lead
ing so-called Christian (save the
markD countries do not hesitate 10
break treaties and spit with contempt
upon solemn obligations? 1t IS though.
that the final decision of the powers
acting will be to make the terms for
ever binding. But how? When other
kings reign or other parties are in
power all this nay be changed lin a
jify." A long conference was held in
London between American Ambassa-
dor Choate n the Marquis of Lans-
downe. A dispatch from London of the
18th says:
The United States embassy, while
non-committal, hopes hat the confer
ences here will clear UP the muddle
and bring about a signing of the joint
note at Pekin within a few days. On
the other hand. the British foreign Of
flee is not quite 50 hopeful. British
officials say that they gave in under
protest and with a distinct reservation
cable, this in no way neceSsitateS an
enforcement of the demands by Euro
pean troops. To such a course Great
Britain cannot and VIII not agree"
1t must be admitted that it is VERT
ably a Chinese puzzle and difficult of
solution. The powers agree and then
they disagree soon after. 1t is stated
that a representative Of the Associated
Press in london has solved the mys-
terry. He says there has been a miscar-
riage of instructions to the British and
American ENJOYS, causing them to
take different views when really their
home governments are of one opinion,
in perfect accord.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-12-25
THIRST FOR BLOOD.

While the south Is guilty OF lynch
ing brutes, it is apparent that the mob
law is not sectional. The north suffers
in the same way and with far less
provocation. 1t is YER unfortunate
and ven alarming hat the Jury in
the woods" in the south a SO much
ugly business in hand. 1t is more
alarming that the mob in the northern
towns have so much bloody and open
work that they accomplish. They do the
lynchings differently In the rich north,
They rather make a parade Of it and
enter into it with much of display and
d~eliberation. The cruelties are some
thing refined, and the scene enacted
are of startling effect accompanied
with lurid displays. The people who
participate have an eye to pictorial e..
feet, and they take life secundum ar.
tenn. Read the following as a remind.
er from the Baltimore Sun OF the 1871
inst:
THE most recent and dreadful exhi'
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-12-25

AS was to De expected ex-President
Harrison's able argument against Nc
Kinleyism IN foreign affairs is attract
ing much consideration. Harrison is
a different sort Of advocate or friend
from Hoar, of Massachusetts,. That
exponent of radicalism spouts one way
and votes nothe way. He blows
very o and then he cools off under
party demands and falls to below zero
in zeal for the right and the truth.
With him every thing falls before the
behests Of party. The Philadelphia
Record says this of the address:
He as a rank heresy the
p~retension that congress is not limit
ed by the constitution in legislatine
for the islands, but is subject only to
what majority may b~enevolentIy con-
ceive to be the fundamental principles
Of liberty. justice etc. Against this
loose doctrine as proclaimed by Presi-
lent Mckinley is his speech of accep-
tance ex-President Harrison maintains
that congress-. the executive Z the
judiciary, as creatures of the consti;u-
ton, are limited in their powers by the
constitution. He can conceive Of con
gress stepping outside Of the domain
Of the constitution in legisiating for the
territories no more than Of its members
stepping physically out of their own
skins"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-12-25
ABSURD

Of all absurd things it is the omis-
sion of great names from sectional dis
likes or national prejudice in enumer-
ating the great men of a country, as
in selecting the names for the New
York Hall of Fame" or the fifty
greatest men of the Nineteenth century
made by the New York Herald. We
did o know that the Herald had such
acquisition and observation and pene-
tration as to be able to select the fifty
immortals. Here is it's list:
Abraham Lincoln, U. S. Grant, Hor-
alto Nelson, the Duke of Wilmington,
Otto Won Bismarck, William E. Glad
stone, Napoleon 1, Helmuth Won Moltke,
| Louis Adolphe Theirs, Benjamin Dis
raeli, John Henry Newman, David Liv-
ingston, Daniel Webster, Charles OAR
| win, Heinrich Heine, Alexander Dumas
! pere, Charles Stewart Parnell, John
| Stuart Mill, Albert Bertel Thorwald-
| sen, Ernest Meissonier. M. Fortuny. Ed
| win Booth, Thomas Jefferson, Goethe,
| Wagner, Beethoven, Schiller, Daguerre,
Froebel, Faraday, Humboldt, George
Wilhelm Frederick Hegel. Elias Howe,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-12-25

Louis Pasteur. Thackeray, Walt Whit
man, Hawthorne, Tennyson, James
Russell Lowell, Longfellow, Emerson.
Coleridge, Huxley, Carlyle, Byron. Wal
ter Scott, Browning, Dickens, Balzac
and Victor Hugo"
See how 1t leads of. Grant is one of
the greatest" but his antagonist
Robert E. Lee, who woul have made
five sue men, Of far nobler and purer
character, is omitted. II Lee could have
had an army of the size Of Grant there
would have been but one battle and
the war would have ended for h Con-
federacy. Ir he could have had two
thirds of an army that Grant command
ed there would have never been an APP
pomattox or any other draw fight or de-
feat. Calhoun. Clay. Maury. Stonewarl
Jackson and other outhron are
overlooked, and a dozen men named Of
not so much claim to distinction as
those selected. The greatest poetical
genius is overlooked, Poe, and White
man and Longfellow n such favored.
1t would not be difficult to find other
men the equal in true greatness to Liv-
ii6Slohcr 4 al uclI, Mill, Dd6ucTTc ara
day, Howe, and Lowell, and possibly
several others. When we wrote the
above we had not read what the Balti-
more Sun mac said. We quote because
it confirms n pleases us. 1t says:
"Curiously enough Poe's name, which
was excluded from the so called a
of Fame of the New York University,
does not appear in the Herald's list,
though the pleasing but more common
place Longfellow n the gifted but less
original Hawthorne n the question:
BILE Walt Whitman are put forward as
among the greatest literary lights.
Among the great military commanders
omitted is Genera Robert E. Lee. . .
Stonewall Jackson is also omitted. Lists
of this sort are interesting and more
or less instructive, but rarely convinc-
ing. This is due to differences
in intellectual taste, standards and
viewpoints, to national or personal pre-
JUDGES and to the critics closeness to
or distance from the epoch of the alieg-
ed immortal. The decision is likely to
be even less generally acceptable where
the list is compiled not by a large jury
of admittedly qualified men, but by only
two or three persons"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-12-25

1t is now softened down to "correc-
tive hazing'' at West Point. The use
of tobasco sauce is acknowledged be-
cause it makes victims make faces
1t was for that benign inc highly civil
lied reason that the noble Christian
o was subjected to their cruelties.
1t has leaked out thai Cadet John
Breth, of Altoona, Pa, and son of
Hon. S. j. Breth. as a dispatch of the
18th instant states, had been hazed at
West Poin shortly before his return
to Philadelphia a physical wreck in
the winter of 1897. He died of pneu-
monia o after his return home. His
Parents have kept silent up to this
time, but the father has written a let
ter to the mother of young Booz, in
which he expressed his sympathy and
in referring to her sons death as a re-
suit of he alleged hazing says: / have
suffered silently from the same
causes"
So the official inquiry proves that
young Booz was ~ill-treated- Cadets
Albert n Burnham, tent mates of
h worthy dead youth. ave left West
Point without being graduated, they
having been driven from the academy.
Why this summary action if Booz vas
not brutality and permanently injured?
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-12-25

The complete popular vote in Nov
vember is at last completed. The Of
fetal figures have been printed after
inevitable delay. The vote Tor Nc
Kinley was 1898, 2es in 1900. against
7,1O4,7 79 received by him in 1896 He
received 15s. ass more votes in 1900 than
in 1886. But his plurality in 1896 was
601, S54. and s47 1897 in 1so0-an increase
of 246.025. Bryan received in 1886. s.
500, 92s woes and IN 1900. 6.415.3sI-a de-
crease of S7,33S. So the newspapers
h a have been talking OF his 7.ooo.-
600 votes are mistaken. He lost in
about every southern state. He re-
ceived in 1896. 174.44s votes in North
Carolina. but in 1900 he got but 5 7.73t
"a loss Of 16. IL. Mckinley got In 1885
153. DO. and in 1900. 132. SEA loss Of g.
225. Bryan received over him in Thu
state 24,739 votes.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-12-25
A FINE EXAMPLE OF SANITATION
RESULTS.

An important builder of a town or
city are proper sanitation and good.
pure water. Memphis is in evidence,
In 1890 it was a sickly hole with no san
itation- 1t had 1855 people. 1t OBJ
tanned sanitation and now il has 102,-
800. In 1890 it had but ESQ industrial
concerns. Now has 500. See? The At
lanta News-a bright newsy evening
paper that has the "go" in it, says of
and is a strong plea for a thorough sys-
tenn of sewage and general sanitation:
The Waring sewer system has re-
deemed the city. n it ranks among
the first in health. Situated where Ten
neSSee, Arkansas and Mississippi meet,
it Is the metropolis Of three state. 1t
has river navigation and eleven trunk
lines of railroad radiating in all direc-
tons. The great bridge over the Mis-
issippi is one of the moSa imposing in
the orld. The city has had to live down
its yellow fever reputation. Its recent
history IS the best proof in the world
perhaps Of the value of an absolutely
sound sanitary system"
Before his new system was finished
it had a bayou that ran through the
city. 1t was the place of an enormous
amount Of filth, a tremendous source
Of disease. and was a of the
first magnitude. We speak Of it as it
was in 1868, when this writer resided
there. The bayou had mo stream of
water. but puddqes here and there. 1t
was awful. In 1867 there was fearful
yellow fever visitation. 1t has had i'm
munity from that dreadful disease for
many years. Augusta, Ga, Mobile,
Ala, New Orleans n some other
southern cities are practical examples
of the great value Of sewage and sani-
! tation. Note the case of Memphis. Pure
water and a sewage for Wilmington
properly constructed would reduce the
death rate 20 per cent. the first year we
may not doubt. Possibly % Or SO per
cent. as it has lone in the cities named.
That would mean the saving of one
life in every five or four or three
as the case might be. Think of it. 1t
is far better for humanity to build sew
ers than to build railroads. 1t saves
immortal beings and that is better and
beyond all material, selfish, gain. Let
US not expend all of u ~sympathey and
help on distant peoples while neglect
ing our own.