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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-10-02


inistrator'sNotlce
Having qualified as administrators
o. the est to Il james Thomp son, decd
before tho clerk of the Superior court
for Hallfax county, all persons having
claims against his estate are hereby no.
tilted to p-esan. them to me at Little.
ton, n. g on or before The LIST day Of
October, 1903, or this notice will be
plead IN bar Of recovery. All persons
indebted to the estate are requested to
make immediate settlement.
This III. day Of September, 1902.
T.W. MYRICk,
>. Y. daniel, Atty. Admir-.
9-18-6x
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The Independents in the county
keep making claims that they expect
to win, but it Is one OF the latest mys-
teries how they can delude themselves
so badly. From the very beginning
We have said better not do it. Better
not haye started, and even now the,
would better abandon the whole
business.
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NEW TRIAL.

The Supreme Court has granted
James Wilcox new trial. He was
tried for the murder of Nellie Cropsy,
of Elizabeth City. The demonstra-
tons against the defendants counsel at
the close of his trial were made the
grounds for a new trial.
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GOES LIKE HOT CAKES

"The fastest selling article have in
my store" writes druggist G. T. Smith.
of Davis, KY, sis DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption, Coughs,
and Colds, because 1t always cures. In
my six years Of sales it has never tailed
[ have known it to save sufferers from
Throat and Lung diseases, who could
got no help from doctors nor any other
remedy" Mothers rely on It'll best
phvsicians prescribe it, and e. T
Whitehead 4 Co. guarantee satisfaction
or refund the price. Trial bottles free
Regular sizes, Soc and 81.
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OUT OF DEATHS JAWS

"When. death seemed very pear from
a severe stomach and liver trouble that
[ had suffered with for years." writes
P. Muse, Durham, N. G., "Dr. Kings
New Life Pills saved my life and gave
perfect health" Best pills on earth
and only 25c at F. T. Whitehead & Co. 5
drug store.
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AMERICAS FAMOUS BEAUTIES

Lock with horror on Skin Eruptions
Blotches, Sores, Plmples. They don't
have them, nor will any one who uses
Bucklen's Alnica Salve. It glorifies
the face. Eczema or Salt Rheum van.
ish before it. It cures sore lips, chap
ped hands, chilblains. 1nfallible fol
Piles. Csc at E. Z. Whitehead & Co.. I
drug store.
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Mr.. BUTTERWoRTH ON THE
TICKET.

The Independents have put Mr.. W
F. Butterworth on their ticket fol
County Commissioner IN the place d
Mr.. w. T. Whitehead and Ed. w. F.
Saten, who resigned or declinei.
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THE EDUcA TON 0FTHE NEGRO

By the very stroke and finger-touch
OF Gods power there Is an inefaceable
difference between the races Of men.
THIS difference, stamped upon the
races far back in creations gray dawn,
still speaks OF the mysteries Of Gods
purposes; and study the matter as ne
may, no man will ever be able to know
why God made the races OF men 60 diff
ferent.
This ace distinctio has been more
accentuated between the white man
and the negro than between any other
races. Besides the general differences
in other particulars their color is posi-
lively different. By reason of some
ones sin-it Is now too late. to raise that
auestion-there has come upon the
people of the country, and especially
the South, race problem that almost
defies solution, and that problem is be-
tween the white man and the negro.
An emanclpated race abused by the
power of government with the sovereign
ty of the ballot they have been a mem
ace to the quiet and happiness of the
people Of the South for more than o
third of a century. We say abused
with the ballot, because we verify be-
lieve that had the negro been left to
work out his destiny in this country
without the ballet his condition here
to-day would be a hundredfold better
than it il.
One of the troubles with which the
white people have been confronted is
the constitutional provision for the
public education of the negro, and
whether it is realized or not that feature
of our system of public education is the
greatest hindrance to the free schools
in North Carolina and the South. And
right or wrong, liberal the views or
contracted, the white people of the
South are going to be slow to see it
their duty to tax themselves as heavily
for the education of negro children IS
for their own.
Where in North Carolina to day can
you find community OF white people
who are willing to be taxed locally to
supplement the public school money :?
You cannot find many and this Is the
reason Our people feel that they have
done we'll enough In the education OF
the negro. II we had a constitutional
change whereby there would be limi,
to taxing of the whites to educate the
blacks and leave them free to increase
taxes at their option for the education
1.-THE white children, there would be
a fresh wave OF educational enthusiasm
all about us.
We believe that Editor Bailey said
the biggest truth In the Biblical Re-
c order that has been said about tie
free schools Tor the negro when he said ::
'sFour months school is as much as
the white people can be expected to
give the negroes and it Ia as much as
the negroes will make good use Of"
1t is wonder, indeed, that the white
people are willing to do as much as
they have done for the education OF
the negro; and from the outrages re-
ported and the records of our criminal
courts it does seem that the race Is
making very little improvement.
The white people have already done
we'll Tor tie education of the negroes in
North Carolina and can hardly be ex-
pected to do more now.
OUT OF DEATHS JAWS
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NORTH CAROLINA IN the Supe,
HALIFAX COUNTY rior Court
August Term
1902.
L. r. Mills, 2. T. Anthony,
A. Mcdowell, and Claude
Kltchin, doing business un- Plaintiffs
der the firm name ard
style of The S. N. Shirt Co.
D. Jones, Joseph Jones,
Henry Jones, and Morris
Zones, doing business under Defend
the firm name and style OF ants.
D. Jones & Sons.
The defendants and others will take
notice that the aboye-entitIed action
has been commenced in the Superior
Court Of Halifax county, said State, by
the above-named plaintiffs against the
defendants above named, for the re-
coyery of the sum OF Nineteen Hun
dred and Ninety Dollars
4 500 O0), due for work done
'1nder contract Tor the manufacture OF
shirts and tor damages Tor breach oi
contract for the manufacture Of shirts !;
and the defendants are hereby required
to he and appear at the next Term. OF
the Superior Court o! Halifax county,
N. c., To be held in Halifax, N. e.
on the twelfth IL snday alter the
FIRST Monday ia September, 1902, and
answer or detnur to the complaint OF
the PLAINTIFF. otherwise plaintiffs will
apply TO the Court Tor the relief de-
manded IN the complaint.
Notice is kereby given that a warrant
Of attachnent has been issued in this
action against the property OF defend
ants which was re.uinable to the Au-
gust term, 1902, of the said Superior
Court.
Given under my hand this the 25th
day OF August, 1902.
S. NJ. GARY,
9-4-6t Clerk Of the Superior Court
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The Cralg-Pritcha1d debates have
been spirited, but the Democrats have
no cause to be alarmed. Craig has
shown himself to be match for Sena-
ror Pritchard at every point. Pritch-
ard could have no hope Of reelection
except ior the Independent movement
In the State and in the end he will find
that it will aid him nothing.
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MAITLAND, FLA, October 10th, 1901
The Hancock Liquid Sulphur Co.,
Baltimore. Nd
Gentlemen II have had Eczeme
over thirty years, have tried many
remedies prescribed by various physi-
clans, but to nothing has the disease
Welded so readily as to LIQUID Sui
pHuR. / think If used properly it is
undoubtedly specific tor Eczema, ]
have prescribed it for others with most
satisfactory results. consider 1t the
best remedy for cutaneous affectlons
have ever known, and regard it as the
greatest medical discovery ct the age.
Respectfully yours,
w, A. HEARD, NJ. D.
For Sale by T. E. WHITEHEAD & Co
To WASHINGTON & RETURN SIS 95.
To New YORK & RETURN $16 95
The Atlantic Coast Line will sell
round trip tickets from Scotland Neck
to Washington and New York at fig
ures named above Tickets will be
placed on sale October 3rd, 4th, 5th
and 6th,' good to return until October
Is, 1862.
Ticket TO Washington will permit
stor-over on going CT return trip and
fina. limit can be extended until No
vemter 3ri by depositing ticket with
Joint Agent at Washington, and upon
payment OF fifty (5o) cents. For fur
Their information ses Agent, Or write t.,
W. J. CRAIG,
General Passenger Agent,
9-25-4t Wilmington, n. G,
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HIS LIFE IN PERIL.

II Just seemed to have gone all to
plecec," writes Alfred Bee, of Welfare,
Tex. biliousness and a lame back had
made life burden. / couldn't eat OF
sleep and felt almost too worn out to
work when l began to USE Electric Bit
tiers, but they worked wonders. Now
sleep like a top, can eat any thing, have
gained In strength and enjoy hard
work. They give vigorous health
and new life to weak, sickly, rundown
people. Try them. Only SOC at E. T.
Whitehead & Co.'s drug store.
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9-4-6t Clerk Of the Superior Coul
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-10-16

that tRaymer was the man; but ii
that last little outburst of hers there
was room for most disquieting
doubt; and since man may be a
knave of conscience and still be a
gentleman, Griswold despised himself
very heartily after the fact, going So
far as to question his right to go, to
Charlotte until after this terrible
doubt was drawn and quartered and
decently buried out of sight and be-
You'd the possibility of a resurrec-
ton.
1t was during this ante-dinner in
terval of self-recrimination on Girls
wold's part that two men met behind
closed door in a first-foor chamber
OF the summer hotel on the Point.
One of them was Mr.. Andrew Gal
braith, but now returned from his
call on Miss Grierson. The other was
q shrewd-faced man, as vet in the
prime of life; a man with a square
jaw and thin lips and ferretty ewes.
Mr.. Galbraith held cigar between
his fingers, but it had gone out. The
other was smoking Regalia, and it's
subtle fragrance filled the room.
"You think you are sure of your
man this time, are you, Grif6n?" said
the banker.
ITO BE CONTINUED.
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TIE PRINCETON UNION: THU RsDAY, OCTOBER t. 1909.

office. But these little upfashes of
remorse had been but match flares,
going out in a sudden Whit Of the
wind Of fnality. For the thing was
done irrevocably and could never be
undone. .s
In the aimless detour which led
him from street to street and finally
into a road that brought him out
upon the lake front far from town,
these things all came up for a hear
ing, and he gave them room patient
ly, as a judge hears plea that he
knows we'll he must disregard. The
storm was. over, and the sun was set
ting in all the glory of the broken
cloud rack in the west. Griswold had
the artists eye for natures grand
eur, and at another time the sunset
would have held him spellbound. But
now he plodded along with hands
behind him and his head down, seeing
nothing but the all too clear vista of
the past, and. that other vista of the
future which had but now become
valley of shadows. ,.r -.
So Flooding along the lake drive,
he came at length to the boundaries
of Jasper .Grierson's domain, and al
most before he knew it, he was climb
ing the path to Mereside. At the
very veranda steps he came alive to
some sense of what he was about to
do, and would have stopped to weigh
the cOnSeQuenceS-tO turn back. it,
may be. But trim little figure
slipped from hammock at the cor
ner of the veranda and Margery came
to meet him.
I'm so glad" she said, standing
at the steps to give him both her
hands in welcome. II did so hope
you would Gomez
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CHAPTER xxx.

It was fortunte for all concerned
that the rescue of the members of
the launch party did not hang Who'll
ly upon the upcoming of the ''Sprite."
The distance to be covered was not
great, but with bowling gale fairly
abeam the catboat steered like
sand-fat, and Griswold had his hands
full to lay the course and hold to it.
Recalling it afterward, he liked to
think that it would have been i'm
possible but for Charlotte's help.
For terror-stricken moment she
crouched beside him, as helplessly
frightened as any woman could be.
But at the critical instant she sat up
very straight and relieved him of the
tiller.
"You manage the sail; can steer!"
she cried; and she did it like sailor,
bracing herself and easing the labor
ing catboat through the seas as skill
fully as any skipper of them all.
Yet it was lucky that not all the
lives spilled overheard by the capsiz-
ing of the launch depended upon the
heroic endeavors of these two in the
'Sprite." Other help was at hand and
nearer. The launch was no more
than fairly helpless when the flag
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SCHOOL NOTES.

The supply of pens, ink and
paper has arrived.
The boys who have been absent
digging potatoes have returned to
school.
The fifth grade had half holi-
DAY Friday as a reward for good
attendance.
Wanted, in the eighth grade,
two pupils to fill the seats vacated
by Miss Hoyt and Nellie Cameron.
The basket ball court has been
arranged and as soon as their suits
are ready the girls will begin to
practice.
Miss Lima Severance of Spencer
Brook who teaches at Spring Vale,
visited the high school Tuesday
morning.
During the month there were
only three cases of hardness and
an average of over ninty-eight
per cent present.
A large number of the high
school pupils have invested in high
school pins. The pins are purple
and orange engraved with the let.
tiers Up. H. S.
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CHAPTER XXXII.

When Griswold took his leave of
Miss Grierson, which he did as soon
as he could after Mr.. Galbraith's
coming, he did not go to DR.. Farm
hams. On the contrary, he went to
his room at Mrs. Holbrook's, and
spent the hour before dinner tramp
ing up and down with his hands be-
hind him and with a sharper trouble
than he had ever known gnawing
ruthlessly. at his peace of mind.
All through the talk with Margery,
and up to the very instant, of inter-
ruption, he had made sure that her
thinly yelled hypothesis revolved
about one Edward Raymer. But at
the last moment, this conviction had
trembled upon it's pedestal and tot
tered to it's fall He thought he had
come to know Margery pretty we'll
well enough to be sure that she
would not misunderstood anything
that he might have said. But when
he came to weigh those sayings of
his in the light of possible miscon-
struction he was moved to grind his
teeth in a very manly agony of
shame.
He had neither weighed nor. meas
ured them at the time being so sure
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"Can't you? Let me see il / can
suppose them for you. Picture to
yourself an unhappy marriage-the
unhappiest Of all in world of un-
happy marriages. Let the blame Of
it lie where it may fall, on either
side, but remember that the man was
brutal and the woman was weak.
Suppose there was child, who, in
stead of being a bend between them,
was bone of contention. Do you
follow ,me?"
"Perfectly." .<.....-...
She was looking past him again,
and there was certain quality of
hardness in her voice that spoke of
unsupported depths of bitterness.
Yet she went on steadily.
Suppose when this child grew up
she was compelled to choose be-
tween the mother who needed her
and the father who could crafty her
ambitions. Suppose, if you can, that
she made some sort of a compromise
with the little speck of conscience
she had and went with the father
who, if he was brutal, was also
strong"
She paused again; and he said:
'Well?"
IL am afraid I am boring you. j"
The eyes were downcast now.
mo, you are not. Go on"
"Wen, let us say that after time,
this girl, who had some of her IA
theirs hardness and some of her
mothers weakness, came to see that
she had taken the winning side mere
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BLUE HILL.

Mr.. Blair's sick folks are i'm.
proving.
Fred GLADDEN. is down from
Mora visiting his mother.
There are land hunters around
occasionally looking for land.
A new family has moved into
Mrs. Gladden's house for the win.
ter.
We hear that MIR. Cone is about
to move to Bridgeman in Mile
Laos county.
Reed GLADDEN. has gone to Wis
consin with Rev. Orrock to attend
a series of religious meetings.
The first snow storm of the sea-
son came last Monday and made
the potato diggers get an extra
hustle on themselves.
The boys went to charivari Benz.
Carpenter and they were invited
in and introduced to the bride and
told to come again and they would
be used in hospitable manner.
Potatoes are not as good as were
expected. The yield is about IS
per cent of last year. It is no in-
ducement for farmers to haul them
to market at the present low price,
as it costs too much to dig and
haul them.
The new minister has not been
heard from yet, but there will be
services at the school house in dis.
trict 43 next Sunday by Geo. Gal
braith. Sunday school at II A. NJ.
Come out and have a good school
and make it interesting for the
children.
The road work in our town is
too slack altogether. There
should be more interest taken to
have good roads. The town pays
out enough to have good roads,
but there is much money wasted
in the work on the roads. A farm
is of little use to farmer unless
he can have reasonably good roads.
The members of the Methodist
church gave Rev.. Paul Haight 9
farewell reception and a Goo
speed to his new appointment.
They showed their appreciation Of
his services on this circuit during
the past year and regret that mat
tiers in some respects we're not as
pleasant as they should have been.
Mr.. Haight had many things to
contend with while on this circuit
and it is to be hoped that in bis
new field Of duty he will find
things more pleasant and agree,
able. ,.
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boat of the Wahaska Yacht club
rounded the southern point of the
island, close-reefed, but driving at
railway speed before the squat. Her
skipper saw the accident and was
happily man for an emergencv.
Moreover, he had a trained yachts
crew aboard, ready to spring to
quarters at his yelled command. So
it came about that the Diana" was
the first on the scene, and her crew
was picking up the shipwrecked ones
when the "Sprite" came up, head to
the wind, in the thrashing seas.
Notwithstanding, the "Sprite" had
its mission, and for all the quick
work of the big sloop's trained crew,
one life would have gone out in the
smothering pillows but for the up
coming of the catboat. In all the
fierce excitement of the moment. it
was Charlotte who kept cool, and it
was she who caught a glimpse of a
white head upthrust for a moment;
of that and of hand flung out to
grasp hopelessly at nothing. In a
flash she gave Griswold his cue and
damned the tiller down to utilize the
last forging rush of the catboat's
momentum. The reefed sail had
spilled and would draw no more, but
the quick sweep of the big rudder
suhced; and Griswold, leaning far
over the side, clutched the despairing
;hand just as it was disappearing.
Inns was how it came about that
an old man whose span of years had
well-nigh bridged the little rift of
Time which lies between the two
shores of Eternity, was helped to
make that rift little wider. For all
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A knave Of Conscience
BY FRANCIS LYNDE.
CHAPTER XXIX-COntinued
Copyright, 1901, By Francl. Lynde.)

Whoever was responsible for. the
steering of the launch had done 4.
thing to be repented of, and not now,
by any means, to be repaired. He
had put the little vessels head to the
storm instead of running before it,
which was the better chance, and
now, when the waves were breaking
over the low bows, it was too late
to take the alternative. Any attempt
to turn tail and run before it must
inevitably put the narrow-beamed
launch into the trough of the seas,
and yet this was what the foolish
steersman was evidently trying to do.
Griswold luffed little from the
mere life savers instinct, but he re-
membered his own responsibility and
let the catboat fall off again.
Don't look" he said, shortly.
'"There will be another tragedy over
there in minute or two"
"Oh, go to them, Mr. Griswold!
Please don't mind me!'' she pleaded.
Give me the sheet to manage; I
know how, and I'm not afraid now"
He looked into her eyes and saw
the heroine there; the heroine that
he had known was in her from that
first seeing of her in the PARKWAY
southern city. 1t made his love for
her fill his heart to bursting, and at
the moment he could have met death
at her side with a smile.
With that look to steady him, he
put the tiller down, crouching with
her to keep the launch in sight. But
as the catboat came around to
thrash sidewise through the reek
and spume on her errand of rescue,
the launch 1urched to it's damned
helm, swung into the trough, rolled
heavily once or twice and disap-
peared.
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ly because it was the winning side;
that she was helping her father to
become harder and more pitiless than
ever; that she was really helping him
TOTO ruin other people who couldn't
fight as well. Then you are to imag-
inc, if you find it possible, that her
speck of conscience rose up in re-
bellion; that the father tried to bride
her to be loyal and that she took the
bribe and afterward went about de-
iberately to upset all his plans for
ruin-for getting the best of other
people. Don't you think such a
young woman would be an object of
contempt to any really good man."
There was not any of the hardness
with which she had lowered him in
her description in the eyes that met
hers. In the room of it, there was
something she did not understand.
1T would depend somewhat upon
the man." he said, slowly; land much
more upon thing quite extrinsic to
all these conditions you have been
supposing for me-
'Yes?" she said, and she could no
longer meet his gaze fairly.
eyes. If the man, knowing all
these hard conditions, still loves YOU,
Margery-'
She interrupted him with sudden,
fierce energy. "Oh, but he couldn't,
Mr.. Grisewold, indeed he couldn't!"
Her hand was on the low dividing
rail of the tete-a-tete, and he COW
cred it with his own.
1.-THE man loves you with all his
heart, Margery, and will always love
you, no matter what you tell him
about yourself or your past
'Oh, Kenneth!-mayI call you Ken
neth?-If I could only be sure of
that!''
.''You may be sure of it now and al
ways. But-but, Margery, dear, you
must cherish that speck of a con-
science, for I happen to know that
this mythical man sets great store by
conscience-will be very unhappy if it
is lacking in the woman he loves"
She was standing before him now,
and her eyes were alight from with
in. But what she would have said is
not to be here written down. For
at that moment there was a heavy
step on the gravel and some one came
to interrupt. It was Andrew Gal
braith, calling with old-school pune
tilio to see if his hostess had suffered
in the accident on the lake.