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MILITARY ACCURACY. Examples of the Exactness of Our Government In Keeping Tab on the Movements of Soldiers. I 0 0 0 0 0 t 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 s 0 0 o o is m gjGOGOGCCOG We fceep'on Hand All Kinds a!! the Time Also Complete Undertakers' Outfit. Hearse Service any Time Day or night wo are ready to accommodate our friends and the Public Generally. M. Hoffman & Bro. Scotland Neck North Carolina Burroisghs-Pittman-Wheeler Co. (Successors to N. B. Josey Company's Undertaking Business.) Caskets. A Complete Line of Undertaker's Supplies. J HSRSE SERVICE ST SNYplME. J iiurroiighs-Pittmon-WheeSer Look for this . Sign Ygu cannot know what a good tire is IN STOCK BY G. C. Weeks Motor Car Co. 7ffi it onuments & In all First Class Varieties of Marble and Granite. Largest Stock in the South. Remember, we pay the As we employ no Agents cluded in our pricp. This enables us to use a higher grade of material and to finish it better than otherwise. Is this TAKE WdDMSll s GGGGGGGGGGdGG ) r ni i ; nr. I Saw Mill Man ! I ! If vou want, to get 'the' 1 I! I best results from that j piece of timber you are euttino- LET US SELL i I IT FOR YOU. Write us and get our prices I L. B. Walker & Co. : Cash Lumber Buyers, Office No. 10. Norfolk, - - Virginia, X 0 A Burial Robes. Co., Scotland Neck, N. C. f on Leading Garages Gravestones freiaiit and guarantee safe delivery. the item of commissions is not in worth considering? When in Norfolk call on us. You will find what you want ; see and know what you are buying, and will get it quickly. The Couper Marble Works, (KBtRbliuhed 1318.) 159-1G3 Bank St.. Norfolk, Va o r-i n m o o o o O .1 01I 8 J61 THE FIRST PRESENTS. The giving of Christ mas presents was first introduced by the early Romans. They exchanged gifts freely, but in compli ance with a sumptu ary lav they were never allowed to give anything very elaborate. The re ceiver of a present which was judged too expensive had to offer it up for auction, when it was knocked down to the highest bidder, and the money appropriated by the national treasurer of the period. Consequently, although Ihe Romans continued to distribute i-heir presents in great numbers, they 'via to confine their offerings to such lrtfl3 as jars of olives, napkins, jel n;cn, bores cf toothpicks, can--Joaks and sweetmeats. WHAT THE KIDNEYS DO. Their Unceasing Work Keep Us Staong and Healthy. All the blood in the body passes through the kidneys once every three minutes. The kidneys filter the blood. They work night and day. When healthy they remove obout 500 grains of impure matter daily, when unhealthy some part of this impure matter is left in the blood. This brings on many diseases and symptoms pain in the back, head ache, nervousness, hot dry skin, rheumatism, gout, gravel, disorders of the eyesight and hearing, dizzi ness, irregular heart, debility, drow siness, dropsy, deposits in the urine, etc. But if you keep the filters right you will have no trouble with your kidneys. Mrs. E. N. Nelson, Eighth & Roanoke Sts., Scotland Neck, N. C. says: "I have no hesisation in recom mending Doan's Kidney Pills, as I know them to be a remedy of merit in cases of kidney trouble. I got my supply of this preparation at E. T. Whitehead Company's drug store and its use relieved me of backache and lameness in my loins." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other,. "There's nothing in a name." "I think there is." "Prove it," "Well, I'll bet if it was calied 'lodge' in stead of church more men would at tend." Detroit Free Press. Dyspepsia is America's cure. Bur dock Blood Bitters conquers dys pepsia every time. It drive out im purities, tones the stomach, restores perfect digestion, normal weight and good health. "Do you know Garrulous?" "Not to speak to." "But I thought you had called on him?" "I did, but he did all the talking." Tit-Bits. Persons troubled with partial paralysis are often very much bene fitted by massaging the affected part3 thoroughly when applying Chamberlain's Liniment. This lini ment also relieves rheumatic pains. For sale by all dealers. "Understand you have just done Europe?" "Then you misunder stand." "Haven't you just returned from abroad?" "Yes, but I didn't do; I was done." Houston Post. When you want a reliable medi cine for a cough or cold take Cham berlain's Cough Remedy. It can al ways be depended upon and is pleas ant and safe to take, t or sale by all dealers. . "No," said Mr. Cumrox; "I don't in the least disapprove of my daugh ter's marrying a title." "But you seem dissatisfied." "I am. What I object to is thetellow that goes with it." Washington Star. Frightful Polar Winds blow with terrific force at the far north and plap havoc with the skin, causing red, rough or sore chapped hands and lips, that need Bucklen's Arnica Salve to heal them. It makes the skin soft and smooth. Unrival ed for cold-sores, also burns, boils, sores, ulcers, cuts bruises and piles Only 25 cents at E. T. Whitehead Company's. : HE club looked just tb very thing Gerald Man nersley was craving for a sense of home. A few lines read ac cidentally in an out-of-date newspaper had made him restless with longing for the eld scenes. And so he had traveled two days and nights In a sleeper, vaguely connecting his Jour ney's end with all the love and friend ship his starved nature was demand ing. When he arrived at his old club on a chill, grey Christmas morning. It was only to find that fifteen years' silent absence had been too severe a test for friendship. . The place was empty of all but servants, antf they wore strange, unwelcoming faces. He stood at the club window, look ing out on the desolate, deserted street which he had always remem bered as being thronged, and a great sadness swept over him. This was not what he wanted. From his pocket he drew out the scrap of paper which had really brought him so many miles, and looked at It bit terly. It was only a death announce ment cut from a paper of a year ago, and ran in the usual way "Michael Townley, at his residence," etc. In fancy he saw a sweet-faced maiden. who sought her hap piness only In the eyes of the youth by her side. There were joy bells there, too, as they lei't the church with the fragrance of mu tual love about them. The bells peal ed on outside. and willing fancy led him still further into the realm of "might have been." In an instant he made up his mind to visit once more the old-fashioned cottage not many miles away, to which he had hoped fifteen years be fore to take a bride. He would go and see it, even if its neglected con dition only added to his loneliness and pain. Two hours later he was striding through the crisp country air along p winding path which led to a ram bling, Ivy-covered cottage. As ths last turn brought him In sight of the house he stopped In sur prise. He had expected to see dirt, ruin, and decay, but instead he looked upon a trim, well-kept cottage, and a soft, crooning song, In a voice which reawakened the tender memories of long ago, came floating through the unlatched door. Half believing that it must be fancy leading him still, he entered the house softly, and, following the voice, went into the inner room, and stood in the glow of the warm firelight. The sweet, tired-faced, middle-aged singer turned as his shadow fell across the light, and then stood white and trembling. 'Gerald!" she whispered. "Gerald! Lave you come to reproach me? Not today! Not today!" The strong man's voice broke as he held out his arms. "Nance!" he cried joyfully. In a moment she was crushed, sob bing, to his breast. "Oh, Gerald! is It really you? God is very good. I thought you must be dead." For several moments they stood thus, the strong man's tears fall ing on her grey tinged hair. Then he gently put her into a chair. "You are not alone?" he asked as his eyes caught sight of a little table laid for two, idaintily spread with Christmas fare. "Yes," she answered. "I am quite alone. I have often come down here." "But you are expecting somebody?" he said, calling attention to the table. She flushed prettily, looking almost as young as she had in his dreams of the morning, as she replied: "I was expecting you, Gerald." He smiled happily at her; then the smile faded, and he sighed as he sank into a chair. "This is all foolishness, Nance," he said sadly. "You could not live here in the old days, you could do so less now, and I could not live here on an other man's thousands." A smile hovered over the woman's face as she flitted here and there, busily preparing things for a meal. Then she slipped behind a chair, and leaning over whispered with burning cheeks : "Perhaps you do not know, Gerald, that that Mr. Townley's money goes back to his family If if I marry again." The man sprang to his feet and took her into his strong arms again. "It is not too late," he cried. "We are still youcg. Will you let me try to make you happy?" Her answer was drowned in the burst of Chri3tmas bells that pealed from the village church close by. But he did not need her words; he could see her eyes. "Garn'pa, you talk about 'persev erance winning is all nonsense " "Why, child?" "Here I've worked all the evening blowing bubbles and trying to pin 'em on mother's hat." Life. If your children are subject to at tacks of croup, watch for the first symptom, hoarseness. Give Cham berlain's Cough Remedy as soon as the child becomes hoarse and the attack may be warded off. For sale by all dealers. We hear much of the perfection of military organization abroad, but it is doubtful whether any foreign war of fice follows with an accuracy greater than that displayed by our own war department the movements of its of ficers. The following is an interesting case in point: A young army officer who has seen service in this country and In the east was once with a scouting party In Ari zona. After two weeks in the desert his squad came to the railway near a small station. Within ten minutes a telegram from Washington was brought to him by the station agent. It asked if the officer wished to be transferred to one of the new artillery regiments then forming. He answered by telegraph that he would be glad to enter either of them. Then with his squad he set off again across the desert. It was six days later when they again struck the railway, this time eighty miles from the point at which they had previously crossed it, but the officer's reply from the war depart ment was awaiting him. It had been telegraphed to every station within 200 miles. A more striking instance of accuracy occurred after the same officer's trans fer to the east. He was traveling home on leave, and, as the regulations require, he had notified the department of the day, hour and probable route of his journey. After he had been on the train for eight hours at a small station the porter entered with a tele gram, asking if any one of his name was present. On opening the tele gram the officer found that It ordered him to detached duty. Exactness of detail could not he car ried much further. The war depart ment knew the whereabouts of an in significant second lieutenant even when he was traveling on leave of ab sence. Xew York Ilerftld. $100 Ptr PlaSe was paid at a banquet to Henry Clay, in New Orleans in 1842. Mighty costly for those with stom ach trouble or indigestion. To-day people everywhere use Dr. King's New Life Pills for these troubles as well as liver, kidney and bowel dis orders. Easy, safe, sure. Only 25 cents at E. T. Whitehead Company's. "That hen has laid an egg every day for the past six months," said the farmer. "Do you suppose she i3 trying to break a record," his city cousin asked, "or has it merely be come a habitwitiiJier?;--Judge. Mrs. A.-RTTabor, of Crider, Mo., had been troubled with sick headache for about five years, when she began taking Chamberlain's Tablets. She has taken two bottles of them and they cured her. Sick headache is caused by a disordered stomach for which these tablets are especially in tended. Try them, get well and stay well. Sold by all dealers. Citizen Say, officer, there's a riot going on in the flat building over there. Officer That's nothing. It's nly some installment men collecting the easy payments on the furniture. New York Globe. A Hero in a Lighthouse. For years J. S. Donahue, So. Hav en, Mich., a civil war captain, as a ighthouse keeper, averted awful wrecks, but a queer fact is, he might have been a wreck himself, if Elect ric. Bitters had not prevented. "They cured me of kidney trouble and chills," he writes, "after I had tak en other so called cures for years, without benefit and they also im proved my sight. Now at seventy, I am feeling fine." For dyspepsia, indigestion, all stomach, liver and kidney troubles, . they're without equal. Try them. Only 50cs. at E.T. Whitehead Company. "I Suffered Intense Pains in My Left Side." Do you realize it it better to be safe than sorry, that it is the best policy to lock the stable door before the horse is stolen? Dr. Miles' Heart Remedy cured Mrs. C. C. Gokey, of a stub born Cass of heart disease, such as thousands are now suffering with. Read what she says: "Before I began taking Dr. Miles Heart Remedy I bad been suffering from heart trouble for over five years. I had grown so weak that it was impossible for rne to do thirty minutes work in a whole day. I suffered intense pains ia my left side and under the left shoulder blade, I could not sleep on the left side, and was so short of breath that I thought I should never be able to take a hill breath again. The least excitement would bring on the most distressing palpitation. I had scarcely taken a halt-botUe of the Heart Remedy be fore I could see a marked change in my condition. I began to sleep well, had a good appetite, and im proved so rapidly that when 1 had taken six bottles I was completely cured. MRS. C. C. GOKEY, Northfield, Vt If you have any of the symptoms Mrs. Gokey mentions, it is your duty to protect yourself. Dr. Milee' Heart Remedy. is what you need. If the first bot tle fails to benefit, your money is returned. Ask your druggist. MILKS MEDICAL. CO., Elkhart, fnd. CHICHESTER SPILLO DIAMOND BRAND &7.2?r.J?r,,h for CHT-CHKS-TBR'S S5 etmc boxes, sealed with BluelA) "ivn li lj X-AAXa in KRD audi a A HniMM mA L.b ... VWT . DIAMOKU BBANB PILLS, for twe&ty-ita years regarded a Best, Safest, Always Reliable. DULD BY ALL DRUGGISTS TtlWP- TRIED - IT ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT : AVgctableftcparalionErAs similatuig ttefMaittlRda ting tltc SiOinachs arulDowsIs of :M,ll.f ! PromolesDirafionJCheerfai ness and RsstoRtalns rtciew Opiuni-MorpiUnc nor Mineral; jtnatSttd '47Hr. Anerfecl Remedy for Consfipa Hon Sour Stomadi.Dlarrhoca WorasJLonvuiswiisjevBnsir ness antlLOSS OF SLEEP. Facsimile Signature of NEW YORK. Exact Ccpy of Wrapper, x-o-oo-ao-o Wholesale Aill (in S B flllBil MANULTACTURER OF PLOW BEAMS SINGLE-TREES FARM CARTS And Dealer in Harness, Whips, &e. W. A. BRANTLEY 6000000000000 C. C. COBB. ros. Cobb So. States Phone 435 BROKERS So. Bell Phrmc Members of New York and Norfolk Cotton Exchange. Ccrresp"r.( ! H of Chicago Board of Trade and New Yoik Stock Exchu'.:::ro. Cotton, Stocks, Bonds, Grain, Provisions. Special attention given lo telegrnphic and phone orders. Execution of all orders reported promptly. Any information desired regard ir markets will be gladly furnished at any time. Private telegraph wins to all principal exchanges. Correspondence solicited. 101 Plume Street. Will H. Josey Scotland Neck. N. C. INSURANCE! of all kinds written. Why insure in companies thatiji may wish to pay and can't? Hi! represent the strongest andfll most liberal companies ml America. Life and Accidentjj Mutual Benefit and National. t fire . THE HOME. Aast over 31 million. Ttf?. rriTSITIMWMTAT. Araota ov OlV million. f J-' THE PHILADELPHIA UNDERWRIT-l!' i Assets over 21 million. , THE FIDELITY-PHENIX. Aew!H over,,. I j million. ij TTT E1 pt net? Avn nnrpi'r-' a., . over 5 million. jij Should you wish insurance, i i of anv kind see m. Will so-l that loss is paid, unless by fraudt I Flowers ! Flowers ! f I Shower Bouquets of X Roses and Lilly of the Valley; also plain Bou X quels. Roses, Carna- tions, Violets and other X seasonable Flowers. t FloralDesigns at short t notice. All orders receive prompt attention. I H. STEINMETZ J t FLORIST JRaleigh, North Carolina. X House Moving! I am prepared to move houses with or without chimneys. JReasonable Prices. Zfipor terras and further" informa tion, apply to ...r- R. V. KITCHIN ...Scotland Neck. N. C iJV ' - For Infants and Children. ansa t C3 EM II IMM VAI1 EJMffrt fllD illllU I UU Uu Always Bough! m um m wz -.n v .bears tne jrA j i'i CM i. . F M ft 9 r ',' Use For Over Thirty Years ckko-o-cc ') 0 and Retail! OOOCrOOKKKK)5 JAS. n. MCCAW. L CooibV Norfolk, Virginia. io-:;-tf I and nothing did any froo ! :;i .; ; ; ; Mustang Liuimeiit. In.I'v! '.. "rir linn.. UnA , , frequently with tlie 11:1: i;t tiru! . aa improvement. I c!!J t!-:st!.:v times a day and my l.oive -.vn'- r cured. It is sure t.i c:ro if j-r'-p. :' jg U ' k - ; . If FOR HORNET STIf 103. r. p. . ..... "I have used Mcjci-?ni l.'.t.- : i.' tnentfor i?ift"ere:it Rilmenla ana .ic. ' it aa excellent liniment. At r;-'. marewas badlvstunjj byhofi:t-i i." 1 liniment quickfy cured her. J Ili c inc-nded it to others huudrcjj ci i:.-.- .' 2ScS0e.$labottlo&t Drue &G;n'i St.i. ;! .if . ' W.'.T-' CURES SWINNEV. Mr. R. S. Shclton, HilL N.C., wiles: "I used Mexican Mustang Iinimcrii. a very valuable horse for Bvinm-r nml ' cured it. lalwavs keep it iu myst:ib:c i; think it the l.csl liniment for rub-mud ::.'.'. ' It contains no alcohol and E,t cum sting in cases of open wound or :':... Soothes and coo9 at once, just try ";, i-'i 1 1 rw -j-eei caoo ILOGOO For BURNS and BRUISES. Mr. W. V. Clifton, RaUiKh, N. C. -( : "I keep a bottle of Mexican M'i--.t;'.i.' Liniment in mv house continuallv for i craluae. It is the finest thing in the r. . foruts. Burns and Bruises." 25c. 50c. ?1 a bottle at Drus & Cen'l isot ' 0 m IT B ft tlfV Of f I Mr. B. II. Iver. Marian. 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