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VOL. 88. NO. 17
AN OLD ADAGE
SAYS
"A light parse Is a heavy curse"
Sickness makes a light purse.
The LIVER la the seat of nine
tenths of all i
TutfsPills
so to the root of the whole mat
ter, thoroughly, quickly safety
and restore the action of the
Liv tK to normi
Give tone to the system end
solid flesh to the body.
Take No Substitute.
Kills Minks and Hawks.
Th; Mscnalis Chicken Powder
: ign of you sometime ago is some-
thine fine, it is a dead shot on minks
and hawks. I know this to be true:
I saw a mink with one of my chick:
and In a faw hours I found the mink
d ad.
J. B. Pankey, Minden, Miss.
' 11, 1909. 834
Those unsightly pimples anc
Kotchra! External aplieations ma
pa tia! y hide them, but Hoiltster't
P. ky -fountain Tea removes then
for keeps. Gets at the cause knpur-Wood.-
Tea or nuggets (tablet form
3:c at druggists, Edeecombe rim:
Co.
Notice to Creditor.
Having qualified as executrix of J
M. Howell, late of this, Edgecombe
coun-y, noMlce is hereby given to
all persons holding claims against
the estate of my testator to present
them duly proven on or before March
IT, 1911, or this notice will be pleac
in bar of recovery. AU persons in
debted to the estate must make in.
med-ate payment.
March, 1, 1910.
EMILY L. HOWELL.
Executrix J. M. Howell
W. O. HOWARD. Atty.
Notice to Creditors.
Having qualified as administratrix
of the estate of Daniel Wimberly, late
of Edgecombe county, notice is
hereby given to all persons holding
claims against my Intestate to pre
sent them duly proven on or before
March 17, 1911, or this notice will'
be piead In bar of recovery.
All persona indebted to the se
ta must make immediate payment
HARRIET WIMBERLY,
Admr. Daniel Wimberly.
W. o. Howard, Atty.
Notice to Creditors.
Having qualified as executor of
the last will and testament of W.
8. Crisp, late of Edgecombe county,
notice is hereby given to all persons
holding claims against my testa
'or to present them duly proven on
or before March 10, 1911, or this
notice will be plead in bar of recov
ry. (T
Ail persons indebted to the en
tat.3 must make immediate payment.
A. M. WOOTEN,
Executor.
Fountain, N. C.
Notice to Creditors.
Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of James R. Setter
thwaice, la'e of Edgecombe county
notice U hereby given to all person
ao diijg claims against my Intestate
t present them duly proven on oi
b fore March 21, 1911, or this noce
wll be plead in bar of recovery.
.ii persons indebted to the ee
tat-? muot make immediate payment,
i ha March 21, 1910.
E. L. ROBERSON,
Admr
W. O. HOWARD, Atty.
Notice to Creditors.
Having qualified as administrate
of th PrtA of P. S. Sukk. late o:
Edgecombe county, notice is here
by given to all persons holding
claims against my intestate to pre
sent them duly proven, on or before
March 10, 1911, or this notice will
be plead in bar of recovery.
All persons indebted to the es
tate must make immediate payment.
ROBERT SUGG.
Admr.
EST RAY.
No Ice is hereby given that Blos
som Lawrence has taken" up one red
yearling steer, abort horns, on Oak
Spring Farm, No. I Township, Edgs
"combe County. Owner may reclaim
same by paying cost of -.keep and
all expenses of advertising. - s
H. S. BUNN,
Register of Deeds.
March 19, ltlO.
MEMBERS OF THE PEOPLE'S MU-
Win mTZ; . 7ond
at . .u la th. cheaoest in
urance in the country and absolute
ly rsUable.
F. H. PENDER,
Secretary and Trsasnrer
ROBERTS TASTELESS CHILL
TONIC.
Ths grsst Fsvsf snd Chill Remedy.
38347 Bottles sold last year.
There is s reason.
It relieves chills, fevers, and clean-
es the blood.
For sals by all deslara. tt26
want. country corn and
Held peas. Highest cash prices paid
for thla. r. b. Peters Grocery
tympany. W
LUEBECK.
(By Gaston Llchtntin.)
ueoec, once upon a time the
most important city in North Oer
anany, is situated on the River Travt
forty miles north-east of Hamburg
w a long while after the intro
duction of railroads Into the Father
tsnd, oere was no direct connection
between these two cities. This an
lonamate condition may be trace.
a uantsn influence. But, whet
Sj hies wig -Holstein became Prussian.
Lueoeeh profited by the withdraw.
of the Danes from her neighborhood
ana, in 1866, joined the North Ger
man Union.
The third class fana between Han.
ajrg and Luebeck is aeventy-fivt
jenta and the second class rate a
uwuiuB o snout one dollar ami teu
sents in United States currency. M)
readers, who are interested in rail
'oad tariffs, may now compare tht
-orty nUe charge between thest.
o German cities with those obtain
air in our own country. Aa "one awai
w does not make Spring." Just av
ioes the reference to railway rate,
-a this particular instance not in
od to convey the meaning that
i. im an infallible index for maktnt
.Ltmparisons. Still, there may be some
fho would like to include tne aoovv
-formation with the;r already ge
ared statistica. knowlede. Tc
-aem, 1 wish to say that the firs
ies fare may be approximated b.
-daiog the difference between ht
wo lower rates to the second clas
charge.
The Luebacker Bahnbof (depot.)
ti Hamburg, is very unpretentious,
-n tact, I would consider it a das
race for the city on the Elbe to ai
ow sjoh a structure to stand were
it not that many millions have beei
axpendt-i o build the magnificent
Central Station, which will take front
ank among the noted railway de
KHs of the world. After purchasing s
ound trip ticket, as Luebeck was
aot ou my original line of advance,
i took a seat in the waiting room
wd tried to learn something about
die people from close contact. The
average American who tours Eu
rope, fails to see the human side of
:he nations through which he pseses.
Of course, ignorance of language and
-us.oms will nstoaaUy handicap one
greatly.
I do not apnea German fluently but
nv knowledge of the language is suf
ficient to carry on a matually
ntelliglbie conversation and I am
proud of mysetf for having been able
'hereby to help myself oat of a nom
jer of what would - have been
3) harass i nc situations. Germans bav
elliptical expressions. Just the same
s ouraelves, and I shall later on
-o wards the close of this chapter give
an example that will most likely con
vey to my readers the desired Im
pression. Let us return to the depot.
I noticed a small boy "hanging a
round." He bad taken off his book
jag and placed it on one of the
jenchea. My mind wandered back
io America where I could see the
jnvnipreeent small boy.
Not until my feet had touched
Jerman soil, did the idea occur to me
o visit Luebeck. While the pasaen
fan from the Gueiseoau were being
-xanaferred from Bremer haven to
Bremen, I beard a young lady from
Jiacinaatl say that she was going to
time in the mediaeval I
spend some
iity on the Trave. Although my
true was verv limited. I felt that
k was worth while to lose a day
isewuere tf I could Include one ef
he most picturesque communities in
.jrrmo in mv extended itinerary. I
sea determined to get about as much
a possible. The only additional ex
yense would be my railroad far.
..ch for the round trip amounteo
.j about a dollar and a half. One
an readily see that it would cost
nA no more to spend a day in Lue-
,ack than to remain a day longer it
lamburg.
Almost immediately after leaving
Jie depot, which is close by the
frave, the tourist sees before him
xn immense relic of mediaeval days,
aaraely, the Holeten-Thor, a fortified
gateway completed in 1477 and re
stored in 1871. Passing either through
or around this gate (as there has
& .tev-eiiln of whatever walla
once surrounded the city,) the trav
eler begins his walk along a narrow
urved street. Luebeck has the
iistinotion of being one of tne
aw German citiea.-that clings to
Its mediaeval streets and buildings
There are some modern struct
nnu Krth nnblic and private, but
K .takes no stretch of the imaglna
tion to realixe that the town gener
ally speaking, belongs to an age
long passed.
Front the 12th to the 16th century .
during the existence of the famous
(tanuafV lAnnu Luebeck was not
Only the-head but the most powerfui
t7 H comoinawon. xue
popu
latiou, in its palmy days
totaled
eighty thousand, a number which has
only within the last few yearn been
reached for the second time. After
the discovery of Amretoa and the
consequent change of trade routes.
the oiace lost Us importance and the
n-mitLiLtlan dwindled to a remarknhlt
degree Since Joining the North Ger-
man Confederation and, a few years
t5Z mmnire. the number of in -
,fthtt- has increased so rapidly
, as ha Burorised to learn
I VVUU1U IS- sr- -
that Luebeck contains douW the
number of people living there in
jyg
For the benefit of my readers, who
nave never appreciated the ha port
ant part played in history by the
Hanseatic League, I shall ten them
Uiag the word HANSA means aaeocla-
L on or guild. Ae the merchants
their guud, peshaps an up-to
worn UNION would present the
oase more forcibly, the leaders
rightly thought that an association of
cities for commercial purposes
mean an Increase of trade for all
of them. Thus, the rlanaeatlc L
came into being. Km influence spread
and German traders established th
selves far and wide.
Luebeck, being ten miles from the
BaKic, was in a position to 0
us shlppina acaiast d Irate- -rw
Place grow on account of Ks excel
lent location, and, within a cen
tury after its foundation the ofly
had obtained wealth and power. What
sver a Germany community be
came located, first alone the hanks
of the Baltic and then further away
the ststuses of Luebeck were almost
invariably adopted The city on the
rrave finally reached the proud posi
tion of being the acknowledged court
of appeal for German settlement
even as distant as Novgorod in Rus
When Gusts vus Vase, himself eel
b rated and grandfather of the re-
Jwned Swedish king Casta vus Adoi-
phue escaped from the Castle of
valo where he had been hnorisoc
i by the Danish tyrant. Christian
L he made his way to Luebeck and
threw himself upon the protection ol
the burgomaster and the council. The
King of Denmark seat messengers to
the head cRy of the Hanseatic Loathe
md demanded that the Swede shoal
be handed over to him but the sbrewt
merchant refused to comply with
his request. They saw here aa op
portunity to gain the friendship of
Sweden. That the city on the Trave
was sufficiently powerful to oppose
the man who succeeded to obtain
ing three Scandinavian crowns Is
evidenced by Chris Han's reply to
his councilors when they ooagratuisi
ad bun on his successes. Said the
cruel ruler, who had executed wi'b
out cause ninety Swedish nobles
and then boasted of his deed: "So
long as Luebeck is not hi my power.
1 cannot be happy in my kkigdoxns
Of the many cMes and towns that
claimed membership In the Hanseatic
League before changing
caused decline In its
quent dismemberment, only three
m unities in North Germany retain
any connection therewith. Luebeck.
aburg and Bremen, although form
ng part of the modern Get man Em
pire, still are known ae Free cUles
and have independent representation
st Berlin I distinctly remember the
words "Haaaa Stadt (Hanse city)- on
one of the coin in nry possession
during my Journey through this sec
tion of the Fatherland.
I walked from the depot towards the
heart of the city, having no idea
where to find a good hotel. I knew
less about Luebeck than I did about
Hamburg. Before leaving the
train at the latter named city. 1
knew st least the name of the hotel
which was to be my stopping place.
Pedestrian directed me to proceed
along a certain street run
ning parallel with the Trave. I
followed instructions and found a
hostel ry upon which waa conspicuous
ly inscribed the fa Hnt1ng
on that Bmperor WHllam the Oreai
had slept there for one night. My
mind was then made up. If Kaiser
vVUhelm der Grosse bed honored th
place, it must be good enough for me.
Americans may laugh at the idea
of publicly displaying a sign to this
effect upon the front of a German
hotel, the particular one now being
sailed the Ksdserhof, but we. with all
our independence posse th same
weakness. Bmpror William lived dur
ing a glorious period of German his
tory. He was beloved by his peo
ple and his personality will be re
membered for many a day. Cities
have honored hie memory by the
erect oq of magnificent equestrian
statues. It should not. therefore, be
strange . te us that German con
spicuously Inscribe a memorial apot
the wall of a bafkirD Wber their
former ruler pssd single night of
hi existence, when we recall at
numerous Instances hi our own coun
Cirv. even in Tarboro, to mark the
multitude of headquarters in which
George Washington slept
If the Father of His Country could
come beak uDon earth, he might be
delighted with the thousand
one memorials in his honor but.
tee. all. Is this exaggerated
"to hero worship strictly democratic
dmd you. I am not finding fault
Far from it There is not any harm
in mv feUoar countryman proudly ex
churning: " I have seen Theodore
Roosevett." The writer himself posse
theprevsikng siknsan Where
fore,' he ask ail voters in thee
United States, who feel Inclined to
talk of therr experiences with the
great, and the near great, to he
charitable to foreigners who boast
of having ' shaken hands with a
lord."
Whether due to my Mxineas or be
cause I have a mean beard (as the
avlnar ia I never acquired the
habit of shaving myeelf. Somstanw
this dopendence upon a hnrber pute
1 the in an awkward nx. Bat, my ex
1 periences wh Buropean tonsorial ar-
tats have been
sufficiently varied
to offer the compensating
of reooUecttons more or 1st
The man who shaved me
heck was an excellent
i pi
ha Lue
ielder of
TARBORO, N. C ' THURSDAY, APRIL 2Mf 1910.
the esaor. Be eould give a
shave hat, to us a slang t
he waa sot there when K oasj
waahing my face. Often the 4
Is literally not there when the
jeet perform his
whiskers hare
customer, acquainted with the
ttae, will wash km face hlmeei
out say has nation bat a graaa
Th German Manorial artist
the old school
upon which to
ttou of lather and beardetlppiags
the rasor nana th back
mixture antfl his
Is finished. As often as I hav
this thing done, I exaaot to
I lsfc Germany. Many aa
oerbee would he unable to lather hi
wfth a brash. B has
seen teaght tto nsb his band over a
cm at oap sod then apply hi dig
ks toward softening the sum sirs
whiskers. la thai coansctioo. 1 avast
pay a tribute to JaJJaa wmiams of
old Bail nasni i, Ba knows h soaeor
sat and his facial irgi after
a shave ia one long to be fosssssber-
ad by those who enjoyed th lasury
of dontac con tented! v hamaath hb
expert avanlpnlstlon. As Nathan, his
father, onesi ssssrked to sss: "Jaliaa
a a GOOD workman ."
The Kathaaa la a Gothic brick
ouilding. easbciUahed Is the Baaa
corner of the sss it si Bless. Ml
visit to Lantech would not have
If satisfy teg tf I had net tak
n s meal In the aWbaraaae Rx
shafler. Anyone, wsnaaa the decor
The Admiral Table Is
admiral's ship of
Trave. a aaeii
i Chimney Piece
Gemach' has b
mm
Many a man sings
they bring him ht
brid.
anew what tbry
might watt wef.
Just a gaeac at the Market PUc.
large open
the traveler
a varHty
think If they
Tat, I meat oonfen
canfecttonary store
myth ng of the kind en oar
t bou evsrd. Late la the
1
The
water,
rare enjoying ices and ssabtr
concoctions just as we see
merle se c ties The United
may be ahead of Oerssnay when it
to ice cream soda bet the
Fatherland offers aacBerous con pen
Mi ttaa thstspf for the
IsntsaiuD of
wh 1 on my way
like myself, had boarded the trala
Luebeck. wo were aru stand to
each other frees the fact mat one at
th shassnsan edi
tion of the New York Herald
happy I waa to find aa
be able totslk English. If any Of
my reads rs think I am
IX htm or her be separated for s
few day from people who
Bngtiah and be
to a foreign tongue. For my part. I
poured oat my
felt the aasaa relief experienced by
an indoor worker who has been ahat
up all day In an
ped oat Info the fresh air
My com pan toe was a New Fagtsae
er. He said task ae cones saw seem
any foreign mnguaae ana yet tee
list he showed me larks d
that th world waa hta tewrMary. It
must have been Taahee grit
rrli1 htm throuan He kd whsth
er I aaa seen canst ana tat i ww
1 Jostles. I
ferred to the dock of the Ch arch
St. Marv This tbme-tseee has
ay
the sight.
BXTTE (pronounced bitty) U
Oerman word for "please.1 It
to th whim of
person In the United
he will approach the oae afa
him with "What do yon waa
similar phrase, Th
the Fatherland wig simply si
twoeyllebled BMte m as
rogatory tone. If he M aake
the Oertnsn
wtth a Bstts
the single
a visit
lea. The heat of th
seared and ths lau
raadsrs must not let
1
oy
... . i
airy feat
lag at the
ftaa a In
It
warn
H
ia hs
aglaed
Greece. or
large part of 1
Ms Cardan, the
i travelled
wtry aeJare me. I hav
i
slllows
Hear
tb
Onty SOc retfert eaatefact
by w H
AMBCaOaig TRtAILRl
Pantrs
Fact see Fsecy.
d i
Mat
and they llgkaed
I and She
arov ha
sing the
ft H
1M
Is s
tt hard to
U so aorrthls wl
off a. en as
hat by
h aa
y
u a
I her
tf he
or V as tssa see
hi e
Irs.
hy saw at hag
f a tag
by aa
wU
MOM
riy
'Kmwi
- waa
Drag Oh
Bfew Crop Farm anil iar-
deoSeefl
SEE
COOK
THE DRUGGIST
before you buy. He sella
the kind that
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