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'Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price $1.00 Pei Year j.c SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1913. NUMBER 39. poy editor ar.d Proprietor. Mors Said fie liaci uropsy. in-' v'o I had an attack of SmV .w'h ttanllv settled in my r&v :n! bladder. I doctored !:,if&?ir, and they claimed I ii'J;;-' tried other remedies "id '-''t1' ' ' i: . iN-r.Ti anr nf thpm . v.. . I'.'in tin - - - -. f;!'Jli'V;.'M cas such that I was ' - ''Vi vv'-k for about two months Wfr,, ;,rp':.Vin: .'symptoms caused iV ",'cii "of pain. I was hard t c' '' , over in bed . Seeing -...vr Almanacs, 1 ueeiueu lu ie0."V:r.,r's SwampRoot a f1) j'.,f;or tr.kin;? several bottles t'!ai1;"," T" ,. ,,,,,,(1 mv work asrain. -t w tors uiucn m jjiic ui ,Mv;cre truly wonderful. :-vu " Yours very truly, Kor.ERT Ballard, Mansheld, Fa. Cr-rn -n.,1 subscribed before me, -Vh'.-iv of ?Jay, 1912. ' ' Pi'v ! LONGBOTAUM, sotary Public. Letter to Dr. yaer& Co" E&glwioa, A. 1. p. Witt Swamp-Rool Will Do For Yon. zZ t.i i':-- Kilmer & Company, Binfrhamt.-n. Y., for a sample You will a nf-n-r.ation, telling all " . i iii' irun v-',lM"!T. I)? suru a:iu mciiu Mts-viono dollar size bottles for rieat all arucr stores. A.N. DUBOIS piiiW A,-a:viical Textile and s,M..rv (. ii-mist. urnce gnu "Labofstury COS N. 9th St., ":l?ii-."G!ON, N C. Ar,.;-.-.; of anvthing, particular 1 3 r. -.1 OH Products. Well Va"-r Sr;:v-r nrsti iimerai va ater, fT.A.l Pn'da-'ts, Dairy Pro- r.'V '':-i:v ft-ii Earth, etc. i-yv, . -1:t have their wen lit--;;! rahv.-d "t lea-.t once a year, rhnt -v-ri of thfir land that I-.-.-,: r r cro;):-, analyze.l to find 5; . . so it can ue aouea t' tiiiir "to rnnke it good and sk my price ot analysis, wnica is r.j". h!:, ' -ray save you lots o: troi&.e. PARKER'S '.?r";J t?A! HALS ASS i ;y-iK-;'f ;'r,!T,.r'f K'l lvatiilwS the 'XT'-'.cr-cr.'-.ies s fcsuriact . growth. ,9 i- X:es:ore v-rtj LSVCR.10N, DENTIST. J w-: - - n;stnir in White 0Ti?e hoav rr-vn r to 1 o'clock and 2 t.o 5 o'clock. Dr. a. D. Morgan Pl.ysician e?A Surgeon $-:r.V.,r3 I-Tcck, N. C. O.T;ce in the bui'din? formerly t-?i':y D;-. J. P. V.'imberiey. Cil.iS. Staton, Scotlajid Neck, N. C. ''seticos v;hc rover his services are r.--;u:re.. "tnorncy a?id 0urtscior at Law Scotland Neck, N. C. a:t;cc-5 wherever h: services are required, ionsy to -oan oa approved security. L SAVAGE OF ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. JbsiuSUanfl Neck, N. C, on 'i3 tAirl Vv e'l'ip ;day of each month 4; tho '..-.! - . j . i . ;.;e h"e- Kar, N:y, Throat, and fit (X F. Smith ?s7Sli:iia an-l Surgeon J nee in i'hr. Ce.cent Pharmacy, Inc fccatiani Neck. N. C. j t . t b5iBV : - .Vi - i z VI? ;;.V ! r.l ?1 00 i V ....... w A . I. ti I om c ,s a,,a loss oi Appeuie ; eo:,i c,. , , " ' ' -''y-'"r'! r"'ncia) strenrhen ! itr.'.; ' ? i !-ESScti TOXIC, ling tonic, , drives out A true tonic Kor axluHs and ciiildren. 50c tUB-eav.Tisna ttr... a Ac?re yo'Jf Bhenmatism c2 Ta' . Headaches, Cramps, B at- me113' Bruise9 Cuts and Sor.es, Stings of Insects fUtoiu ptlc Anodyne, used in .y externally. Price 25c. THE LOVEUGHT IN HIS EYES, He Thought That Was What Made All the People Stare. "You have read in novels how a great emotion will transform a man's countenance, how a poet's face in the hour of inspiration sets the sparrows siiigin- on the housetops. My own features are of the commonplace type nobody thinks of regarding them twice yet I, tco, have had my experi ences, declares a contributor to Punch. "They occurred on the morning when I received a letter from Thyllis, which gaid briefly, 'Yes, I think so.' No much in that, you may say, but when I te!l you it was the delayed answer to a proposal of marriage you will under stand. Shortly after reading it I step ped out into the street to walk to the office. -What a walk that was! The light in my eyes seemed to brighten the very sun; the song in my heart was echoed from a hundred motorbuses. Never have the winds of May wooed so win uiugly a February morning. "Every man I met turned his head as if loath to take his eyes from my Irradiated countenance. Every girl seemed to take the keenest pleasure iu my happiness and smiled at me pret tily as if infected by its contagion. ' 'Tis we!!,' I thought (iu blank verse), 'that IMiyllis now is pledged to me or. by ray troth, these flattering: glances shot from beauty's eyes might make my heart unfaithful.' "It was only when I reached the of fice and looked in the glass that I dis covered the huge black smudge on the end, of my no::e." COURAGE 'OF NAPOLEON. She Set a Trap For Him By F. A. MITCHEL The Way It Carried Him Frcm Aspcrrs Esslir,;; io Warar.-. rrofessor J. Holland Hose in "The Personality of Napoleon" writes of Na poleon's courage. lie says that his personality 'never stood forth st grandly as after a defeat." The most serious blow in the middle part of his career was that dealt him by the Arch duke Charles at Asperii-Essling, north east of Vienna. The Austrians were nearly double him iu strength. The bridges over the Danube had been broken down in his rear. Ilia great marshal, pannes, had boon killed, and, iu fai.-t, he had suffered a terrible re- 1 verse. All his generals were for re treat, but he withstood them, and Pro fessor r.ose ranks the next tlx weeks "among the most glorious of his mili tary career." lie secured new troops, deceived his enemy by false move ments and finally defeated him at Wagram. Cut a decline came to such a pro digious man. He himself said at St. Helena that he had been spoiled by success. It was natural that the vic tor in fifty pitched battles and innu merable smaller engagements should come to believe himself omniscient and invincible. It was this hardening of the miud that betrayed Lira into the Kassskm campaign, that caused him to refuse all compromise iu 1S13 and 1S14 and that led him to defeat by his in feriors. Wellington and Blucher, at Waterloo, Juf.t as Hannibal was final iv beaten by bis inferior, Scipio, at Putting Trees to Bed. An interesting method of protecting peach trees- from frost during the win ter h:33 been practiced for several years at the agricultural experiment station at Canyon. Colo. Early in No vember tho earth is removed from a circle about four feet in diameter round eac h tree, and water is turned in to saturate the soil. When the ground lias be.-ome soft the tree is worked back and forth to loosen the roots and is then pusl.od over on its side. The branches are brought together and fastened with a cord, and burlap cov ered with earth is put over them. Thus tbe trees lie snug until spring, when the covering is gradually loos ened and finally removed, and they are raised and propped up. Rocky Moun tain News. But She Hadn't. "What's the matter, old chap? You look a3 if you hadn't had n wink of sleep all night." "I haven't. You see. my wife threat ened never to speak to me again if I didn't come home last night before 10 o'clock, and I didn't." "I sec. You're finding out the lone someness of solitude because she kept her word, eh V" "Not by a jugful. I wish she had. Exchange. Shut Her Off. First Deaf Mute (making slgns) Did your wife complain because you stayed out till after midnight? Second .Tiiiffcliiicrl Did She? YOU should have seen her! But when it began to get monotonous I just turned out the light. Fox Hunting. In communities where fox bunting i3 considered a sport catching one is .fu cardinal offense. The rule in fox hunting is that you may chase the quarry, but you must not overtake lt.-Philadelr-Wa Lodger. CHILDREN ' iv- ft 1 1 re ARE DELICATE OR FRAiL under-sizeorander-weight remember-5co' p1" food; it strenguus'w ", makes healthy blood and pro motes sturdy growth. . ftvrtt ft Bowoe. BloomfieMJ:i A gentleman alighted from a rail way train, took a cab and was driven to a suburban residence. His sum mons at the front door was answered by a maid in a white uniform, trimmed far more elaborately than is usual for servants. Indeed, had It not been for thr eap on her head he would not have taken her for such. "Is Miss Mulford at home?" "No, sir; she's not. She's gone to the city." "That's too bad. I've come a long distance to see her." The gentleman seemed much put out ne stood think ing what he would do next "Beg pardon, sir. Are you Mr. Flta Hugh?" "Yes." 'Tlease come In. Miss Mulford left a message for you." Mr. Fitz Hugh entered the house, and the maid showed him Into a very pleasant reception room. On a table he found a note addressed to him. It read: My attorney has advised me that yo will visit me for conference upon the set tlement of our Interests In the Ormsby estate in the hope that Ws may come to an agreement whereby litigation may be avoided. 1 have been called away today and have instructed my maid to keep you till my return this evening. Annie will provide you with whatever will enable you to pass the time so far as she can. The maid stood by demurely waiting while the gentleman read the note. When he had finished he looked up at her admiringly and said: "Miss Mulford assures me that you will do what you can to keep me till her return. The way for you to do that is not to give me books to read or pictures to look at, but to entertain mo yourself." "How could I do that, sir," protested the girl, "you being an educated gentle man and I only a lady's maid?" "You can do it better than the lady herself. Heaven protect me from these intellectual women. They know just enough about a subject to show their want of depth and think all the while that they are showing their brains. In my opinion n woman is intended for motherhood md has no business with ideas." "Oh, sir, you're very hard on us poor women." "Not on your kind on women who know everything. Doubtless if you had left Miss Mulford to entertain me she would have bored me with a let of opinions that would interest no one but herself." "What kind of woman Is your ideal?" "To me amiability and beauty are the only requisite traits." "Then you don't care for smart wo men at all?" "I don't wish one of them to come near me." "Not even a woman who Is capable of taking care of her business affairs? Miss Mulford wouldn't suit you, sir, for she's all of that" The maid entertained Mr. Fitz Hugh during the day by listening to him talk. By the afternoon mail came a note from Miss Mulford asking him to leave a proposition with Annie since she would be delayed In the city for several days. He submitted a basis for settlement, and Annie picked out several points In it that would lead to trouble. He saw and corrected them at once and complimented her on her foresight Then he left her and returned to the city. In a few days he received a note from Miss Mulford that she was sorry to give him another journey, but she would be pleased to have him call again. He went, wishing that he might find the lady again absent and be turned over to the care of the maid. "That girl," he said to himself, "is just what I'd want for a wife that is, if she were in the same social class with myself." On reaching the house he was ad mitted by a butler, which was a great disappointment to him. He had intend ed to say a few nice things to the mam before seeing her mistress. He was ushered into the same room as before, and in due time Annie came into the room dressed like a lady. Fitz Hugh looked at her surprised. "Mr. Fitz Hugh," she said, "pardon me for playing maid the other day. I desired before entering upon a discus sion with you as to -frusiness affairs of great importance to both of us to learn what kind of man I had to deal with.- I found you, I am happy to say, a gentleman of sound ideas, liberal and capable of understanding vour own interest as well as mine. You know that it is in your power to deprive me of tny interest in the estate If I go to law. In other words, I am at vour mercy. Can you blame me for learning your disposition before taking action?" "No. I can't"' rejoined Fitz Hugh earnestly. "I can suggest a way by which our Interests can be made iden tical." "What way?" asked tho lady, drop ping her eyes before his impassioned gaze. "Marry me." "I will." said Miss Mulford. A few days later -Miss Mulford visit ed her attorney. "Well?" he asked. "What tuck?" "I've got him." "Good! It was your only chance to save anything. How did you man age it?" "Oh, that's a little story," she replied, and, dropping Into a seat, she told him of her ruse to trap Mr. Fitz Hugh. How An Artist Obtained Recognition By F. TOWNSEND SMITH HEALTHY LIVER MAKES BEAUTY. Famous Actress Finds That a BealUiy Liver is Necessary to Good Looks and Youihiulcess. Alan Vail when a schoolboy was constantly scolded for covering his books with pictures. The flyleaves and the margins of the pages were covered with heads of persons with all sorts of expressions, besides the bodies of dogs, horses, catsi elephants and other animals. One could easily tell by referring to his schoolbooks how much and bow little each subject interested him. For instance, his read er, the lessons in which were well selected, was quite free from sketches, while his arithmetic and grammar were full of them. He was interested in the reader, but he detested gram mar and arithmetic. Alan determined to be an artist His father, who was a practical man and had a large family to support shook his head at his son's choice of a field of labor, but since Alan seemed fit ted for nothing else than an artist he consented. He could not afford to send the boy abroad to study, so he was obliged to prepare himself for his profession in America. A part of a course in an art school was all the in struction he received. Then be began to try to pick up a living as best ne could by making pictures. Like most persons of artistic nature, he first flew high. He painted on can vas, but no one cared to buy his pic tures. Then be tried to get an order to Illustrate books; but, the field being occupied, he sank to an illustrator for a third rote newspaper. At this he made Just enough to keep body and soul together. One da v Alan saw a baby sleeping In Its crib. He was much impressed with the relaxedness of the little one and wondered If be could transfer It to paper. He tried and was eminently successful. The child slept Just as sleepily on paper as he did In his crib. "I'll tell you what you do with that Alan," said a friend. "Send it to a babv food company and ask for an order to put it in oils for an ad." Alan shuddered at the suggestion. Was he indeed reduced to applying his art for business purposes? But he needed money to pay hl3 room rent so he acted on bis friend's advice. The company quickly returned the picture with the order be had solicited, offer ing him $100 for his work. WThen the picture was finished every one who saw it remarked: J "How pretty!" "Dear little thing!" "Sound asleep, isn't be?" These remarks and other such in genuous criticisms so pleased the artist that he forgot that the picture was to be degraded as an advertisement But when he sent it to the food company and received it back again with in structions to put in it a baby's bottle with the words "Perkins Food" on it he almost cried. However, the promise of a check as soon as the picture was returned with the "essentials" painted In helped to sweeten the dose, and Alan got him self down to the task. He received the check, paid his room rent, bought him self a new outfit of clothes and a good meal. Thus improved in body and mind he bethought himself what next to do. Art Is art, even on a sign or an ad vertisement and not a few of the world's great artists have been obliged to apply their abilities in this way. To get that relaxedness on canvas or in marble that Alan had. transferred from the sleeping child is one of the main features of genius. Persons who saw the Perkins food advertisement saw simply a sleeping child. Here and there one who knew the picture's intrinsic worth supposed that the work of some great artist had been appro priated. Alan knew he had produced some thing that be had only seen in draw ings which were exhibited as treasures of art He determined to try It again with a dancing girl. Between the model when placed on the canvas and other pictures of dancers was the same difference as between two girls tbe one of whom is born graceful and the other is not He continued to work in this vein till his 100 was exhaust ed, but by this time one of his pictures was sold, for a song, it is true, but it produced money. This was the first encouragement of a practical kind that the young artist received. That first bank bill paid him, though but a tithe of the price paid him for his ad., was far more grateful to him. But this was a matter of sentiment n,1Q TOhr. onw the oicture that Alan had sold and who recognized it for what it was really worth wanted one by the same artist This led to an other sale, and these two led to others. and it was not long before aeaiers would say to inquirers, "Oh, that's an original Vail, and bis pictures come hBut these earlier prices were dwarf ed by those Alan obtained ten years later. In one respect his work did not improve, but In other respects it did. A genius for portraying figures with absolutely no stiffness about them was born In him. The accessories were an accumulation of experiences. But the main reason why bis pictures com manded a high price was because they wre advertised. In other words he found that their worth, as wel as Per Uns' food, depended on their being l&own to large numbers of Persons. Si in advertising that article he had advertised himself. One of the best known women of the American stage is writing a series of articles on the preservation of beauty. She attaches great im portance to keeping the liver active at all times, and she is right. Neith er good looks nor happiness will stry long with any man or woman who lets the liver get lazy and sluggish. It is not always safe to take calo mel, the old liver remedy. Doctors agree that it is a very uncertain drug. But E. T. Whitehead Com pany's drug store has a remedy for sale that they guarantee to take the place of calomel absolutely, and still be harmless, causing no restriction of habit or diet. This remedy, is Dodson's Liver Tone. Dodson's Liver Tone is a pleasant tasting vegetable liquid, but it starts the liver gently and surely and re lieves constipation and biliousness so promptly that it has become a de pendable remedy in thousands of homes in the United States. There are scores of families in this vicinity who will not be without it in the house and who would not think of starting on a trip without a bottle of it. E. T. Whitehead Company have sold so much Dodson's Liver Tone that they are convinced of its merit and will give any person his 50 cents back, who buys a bottle and does not find that it takes the place of calomel to perfection. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE 1JROMO Quinine. It stops the Cough and Headache and works off the CoM. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signature on each box. !toc Mental Medicine. "Imagination." says a doctor, "must always be reckoned with in medi cine sometimes as a friend, some times as a foe. I know a doctor who treated an old woman for typhoid, and on each visit lie took her temperature by holding a thermometer under her tongue. One day when she had nearly recovered the doctor did not bother to take her temperature, and he had hardly got 100 yards from the house J when her son called him back. " 'Mother is worse.' said the man. Come back at once. "The doctor returned. On his entry into the sickroom the old woman look ed up at him with angry and reproach ful eyes. " 'Doctor, she said, 'why didn't you give me the Jigger under me tongue to day? That always done me more good than all the rest of your trash." "New York Tribune. ESS Sharpening a Pencil. An expert manual training man talk ed with the writer about so simple a thing as sharpening a lead pencil. In the first place, he says, tbe knife should not be oversharp. but should be a little dull, as if too sharp It will cut quickly through the wood and cut away the lead. Then, again, be says, it is best to hold the pencil In the left hand with the end to bo sharpened pointing nway from you and to cut away with a pushing cut rather than toward you with a drawing cut as then the point of the pencil is rested against the side of tbe thumb and is sharpened by a draw cut stroke of the knife blade. Scientific American. Don't use harsh physics. The re action weakens the bowels, leads to chronic constipation. Get Doan's Regulets. They operate easily. 25c at all stores. To Prevent Blood Poisoning apply at once the wonderful old reliable DR. ! PORTER'S ANTISEPTIC HEALING OIL, a sur ! cical dressing that relieves pain and heals at i the same time. Not a liniment. 25c. 50c. $1.00. Good Pictures require skill in the making, and best quality materials handled by experts to merit your approval. Our photo finishing department is thor oughly equipped our men are skilled experts our materials the finest procurable and your pictures have the HALL stamp of quality. Send for price list and give us a trial order. Kodaks all price3. 1 Sncceisore to TUCKER, HALL & CO. Opticians of The Best Sort 14G Granby Street, Norfolk. Ricoanocd. Lynchburg. i T4E A Natural Cuestlcn. "Hutby, I'm golr.g in lor the slmpl. life a while." "AM right, my dear," said Hubby, as he reacted for r.ta check book. "How many gowns will that require?" 3 F..-..-i.3WgrT ' HtJtl&m JJMM w S3 AWA ND KM $3 h We, the Judges in the Piano and Organ Contest, beg leave to i.eport that we have counted the votes in the Contest and make our report as follows: 1 HELEN A. BROWN (Winner) Annie VVilkerson Annie Harrison KateTillery Agnes Ivey Mrs. Chas. Lawrence Mrs. J. H Harris THE PIANO CONTEST. 4,422,870 ;i,80?),220 ."" :U87,a50 1,442,200 1,420,800 I,317,fi00 1,2G5,130 i tn n Qia Ruby Overton i'tir'Yyln Eva Holland 1,115,240 THE ORGAN CONTEST. i REV. W. M. WIGGINS (Winner).. m Kehukie Church Mary's Chapel Church Ben Powell Leland Kitcjiin, Ash by Dunn, ;U3;720 ; 270,175 G8,ayo -. 10,895 Chas. Josey, Billy V Alston, Judges. ri The Commonwealth is $1 a year. 4 H m Bid JJ v Our New Fall Goods are coming in every day, and the following departments are complete and ready for your inspec tion. Ladies' SuiJS : The latest styles in Bedford Cord, Rough Goods and Flain Serges in all colors. Men's and Boys Suits : New and up-to-date styles, the kind that look weli and wear long, at the right price. Shoes for Everybody: Harris burg Shoes for ladies in all th- different leathers, made up in style; they look good, feel good, wear good, and the price is good for you. We sell TiH and Steadfast Shoes for men ; llicy will suit you in wear, style and price. FumiiUft:: See cur large stock of Furniture and get our prices, then de cide for yourself. E v HI 6t' OH W: .1 Head The Commonwealth. $1.00. lw if Big Values For Everybody. j urroiigfePitfman-Wlieeler Comp'y, Everybody's Store. (Main St.) Scotland Neck, N. C.
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