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Practices wherever his services are eauired K. H. SMITH. STUART H. SMITH- CtMlTH & SMITH, A TTORNE YS-A T LA W. Slaten BId'g, over Tyler & Outterbridge Scotland Neck, N. C. DTARD L. TEA V lb, Attorney ami Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. 0?3Ionej Loaned on Farm, Lands. CM ODE KITCHIN. A. F. KJTCHIN. KITCHIN k KITCHIN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. Practice wherever services are required Office : Futrell Building. Scotland Neck, N. C. Compare our Work frith that ol our Competitors'. ESTABLISHED IN 1865, CM M WALSH WORKS, Monuments, Tombs, Cemetery Curb ing, &c. All work strictly first class and at Lowest Prices. I ALSO F0KNISH IKOJT FENCiNGAVASES, &C. niwiVna Kftnt to anv address free. In writing for them idsfsa Rhe 8ge of de feased and limit as to price. I Pre ? ay Fre ighton all Wort CMES WhtkE All EU f AH.. Coasb Sttup. Tastes Good.. Ul I I Beat Cow . v ' 1 I . .. hi Ala tip, worn or owyiti 3 B k you i j3)GD THEEDITOB'S LEISURE HOUBS. Points and Paragraphs of Thirds - Past, Present and Future. - Work air you ought "and save all you consistently can and keep it up as long as you can, is about the only safe rule for clean and honeet accumu lation. An exchange hints as much in the following paragraph : "Russell Sage baa celebrated his 86th birthday but did not lose an hour from his work. The creed of the sau ceseful man of today is undoubtedly :work.' His work must come above all else and with this constantly in view he will reach the coveted goal." There are many things to -make even the poorest of us feel grateful that we live in this land of plenty. The following from Vienna under date of Aug. 7th, tells a sad story from that far off land : "After a special Investigation among the agricultural laborers in Eastern Galecia, the Neue Frie Press draws a gloomy picture of the miserable con ditions which led to tbo existing strike. The average mortality from famine for several years past, according to the Neue Frie Press, aggregated 50,000. "Laboreis' wages range from eight to sixteen cents a day, and women earn from four to eight cents a day. The peasants rarely taste bread and ex ist chiefly on a soup, the principal in gredients of which are water and herbs." The management of the State Fair was criticised last year for the many indecencies which greeted almost every one who entered the grounds The Executive Committee of the State Agricultural Society recently passed the following resolution looking to wards improvements at the State Fail this year: "Resolved : That no gambling, de vice?, illegal games ot chance or im moral exhibitions will be allowed on the grounds of the North Carolina State Fair, and the following are ex pressly excluded, such as plate boards, spindles, pickouts, fish ponds, card games, slot machines, bcok making. etc., etc. Hoochee coochee or Orien tal dancing, or other degrading exhibi Hons, within or without booths or tents, will not be allowed. "All worthy and interesting shows or amusements are invited and will receive a cordial welcome. "Notice is hereby given that the above will be strictly enforced. "Josei'h E, Pogue, Sect'y." o To one who would burrender himself to a contemplative mood, there is food for thought in drive through the coun try. At this season the neias in inis region always show to ood advantage, especially if ra!ns have been abundant and cultivation good. And not with standing there has been considerable drought in many places this season ,t he crops are beautiful and promise plenty And truly to look upon the faca o: the earth covered with eprowing crops . corn, peas, potatoes and other things to furnish food ; cotton, peanuts and to bacdS to bring money one 1st amazed that there should be the unceasing cry of hard times and scarcity of bread and meat. Truly nature's part is well done and Irom all appearances the laborers' part is well done also. Then why the cry of scanty living? Surely some thing must be wrong. THIS WI LL INTEREST MOTHERS Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, -; Cure Feverisbness, Bad Stomach,, Teething Disorder, Break, up Colds, moveand regulate the bowels and Destroy Worms. At all druggists. I Sample mailed FREE. 'Address Alien ADVANCE IN JARM LANDS- Especially So in the South. INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS. J. F. Merry in So. Farm Magazine. Never in the history of the United States has there been such an active demand for farm lands throughout the entire Northwest, nar such a phenom enal advance in pricss, as during the pait three years. In Illinois the ad vance has been from $90 to $150 per acre ; in Iowa, from $35 to $75, and even higher ; in Minnesota, from $15 to $50, and in South Dakota, from 12.50 to $30. Real-estate prophets ind others have each year predicted che top had been reached, and that orices must decline. Such, how ever, has not been inecase. un ine contrary, not only practical farmers but bankers, mechanics, merchants and manufacturers having the Idle money have shown their confidence in the future of cultiviable lands by making liberal land investments. The question now agitating the minds of real-estate agent? (through whom 90 per cent, of all the farm lands are sold) is, where can we find low- priced real estate, and where will be the next great advance inlands? I advise all real-estate agents and others who handle farm lands that every indication now points to the South as the center of the next great boom, and our reasons for thinking this are based upon the following acts : Southern farm lands are too low, as compared with the market value of Southern farm products. To illustrate : La Iowa lands selling in the market for $G0 to $75 per afire are rented for only $3 per acre. In Mississippi, and i e;r.e3:ally in the great cotton belt, the ; Mississippi valley, improved planta- tions can be bought at from $30 to $35 par acre, and readily rented for $6 and $7 per acre cash, cr, what Is better at the present high price of cotton, for 100 pounds of lint cotton per acre, and upon which the taxes are hot more than half what they are in Iowa or Illinois. All indications point to an increased demand and increased local market for all kinds of Southern farm products. The development of Southern oil fields, furnishing cheap iuel, is attract ing the attention of manufacturers. The construction of an interoceanic canal, whether at Panama or Nicara gua, will make New Orleans the gate way to important new markets that use largely the mining, manufacturing and agricultural products of the South. It will be the means of calling the at tention of thousands of tourists and capitalists to the fertile lands of the Mississippi valley. It will result in large investments of Northern capital, which is inyariably followed by immi- gration and a rapid advance in the price of farm lands. Unimproved hardwood timber lands of the best quality are yet on the mar ket at points in Mississippi .between Memphis and Vicksburg from $7 to $10 per acre. The cost of claaring and fencing these lands is not to exceed $10 per acre, and when cleared they will grow a bale of cotton worth from $44) to $50 per bale, or sixty bushels ol corn worth from sixty cents to $1 per bushel, to the acre. Every real-estate agent who has studied the agricultural conditions of this country understands how, with the rapid increase in popu lation, making constantly increased demand for everything eatable, it is utterly impossible for fertile lands to remain at piesent values in any section of our country, either North or South. " The new industrial and commercial conditions that obtain at New Orleans, the recognized metropolis of theSouth, are a source of wonder and surprise to those who remember the Crescent City as it bad been for - a half-century prior to 1900. Throughout the city is now heard the hum of new -industries, and New Orleans, instead ot be ing a eleepy and quaint old Southern city, is fast. 'coming to the front as a city ot commercial activity, with pros pecte for the future not excelled by any city in the United States, and the growth and deyelopnwnt of this city, and her local and export market facili ties, must necessarily Increase the price of all farm lands tributary thereto. My Country. My country is the world ; I count No son of man my foe, Whether the warm life currenle mount And mantle brows like snow, . Or red or yellow, brown or black, Toe face that into mine looks back. My nativa land Is Mother Earth, And all men are rry kin ; Whether of rude or gentle birth, However steeped in sin ; Or rich or poor, or great or small, I count them brothers, one and all. My birth place is no spot apart, I claim no town or State ; Love hath a shrine in every heart, And wheresoe'er men mate Tjdo the right, and say tbe truth Love evermore renews her youth. My flag is a star-spangled sky, Woven without a seam ; Where dawn and sunset colors lie, Fair as an angel's dream ; The flag that still unstained, uutorn, F.oats over all of mortal born. My party is ail human kind, My platform, brotherhood ; I count all men of honest miud, Who work for human good; And for tbe hope that gleams afar, My comrades in this holy war. My heroes are the great and good Of every age and clime, Too often mocked, misunderstood, And murdered in their time ; But, spite of ignorance and hate, Known and exalted soon or late. My country is the world ; I seorn No lesser love than mine, But calmly wait that happy morn When all shall own this sign ; And love of country, as of clan, Shall yield to world wide love of man. Robert Whitaker, in the American Israe'ite. Clinging to Moving Trains. H. E. C. B., in Charlotte Observer. The devil should have his dues The railroads of North Carolina need protection from tbe small boy who 8 tea is a ride every chance he gets. If there is a law that prohibits swinging on to a moving train, it is not enforc ed as it should be. Somebody is at fault. I wonder that tbe death rate from moving trains in the State is not greater, for there Is scarcely a day pass es that I do not see one or more boys clinging to the side of running cars I have seen it at Charlotte, Salisbury, Newton, Statesvillg and other places The conductors and trainmen try to prevent it but are helpless at times. I have seen the steps of cars so full of urchins that it was impossibe to leave or enter the train. The little boy kil led in Charlotte the other dav was . trying to board a train. He had no business tHere. Two years or more ago I aw the mangled remains of a fourteen year old boy who was sent hurling to death by an engine running into a passenger station at Salisbury. The boy was stealing a ride or a south bound pas- senger train when he dropped into the track behind him and went to sudden It was said here and then, be- fore the fragments of the body were cold, that the boy was noted for his ability to bound on and off moving train. On that particular night he had started up the street with a spec- ial request from his sick father not to loal about the station. All the aboye not poisonous nor in any way danger facts I gathered myself at tbe time. ous to human beings. The popular Later, relatives of that boy brought suit and were given a verdict, by a jury, for $2,000. It may be right, but, if so my training is at fault. II par- idea that a horse hair has been trans en ts cannot-keep their children . from formed into a worm or "snake". such dangerous practices tbe State and the town should help the railroads, The you raster who makes a habit of boarding and leaving moving trains should be locked up until he knows ttAf.lAr T har tAAn th ivimlla of railroad accidents. I have seen the mangled remains ot several bright faced boys. lt is a sad spec- tacle. I wish there was some way to teach the little fellows better - before it I is too late. JUST LOOK AT HER. Whence camn that sprightly step, faultless skin, rich, rosy complexion, smiling face. " Here'a her secret. She uses Dr. King,'s New Life Pills. Re8ult,-all organs active, digestion good, no .headaches,-, no chance for "blues Try them , yourself. Only pe at E,TVAUehead fc Co's. . . -ttiss Florence t life -iwm' 1 ' i52tf.3M? " : SiBlanche Myers J BEAUTIFUL WOMEN WHO PRAISE PERUNA. Cabbage Snakes. Last year considerable was said in the State in regard to cabbage , snakes, especially in the cabbage sections of the western part of the State. Recent ly an item has been going the round ol the newspapers concerning a suppos- I . ed poisonous "cabbage snake" found in a head of this popular vegetable by a lady in Swain Couaty, North Carolina. The alleged snake was sent to tfae North Carolina Depart- meut Qf Agriculture for lden- tification, and proved to be the common nd innffflr.sivn "Hair Snake" or water worm gordius variabilis. This is not a snake but a nematode I worm which during some part of its Hfe j8 an intestinal parasite of the cab- bage caterpillar, grasshopper and some other insects. It is olten found in samples of water from shallow wells, horse-troughs and ponds. Its presence in water indicates that the water is not fit to drink, but the worm 'itself is name "Hair Snake" is giyen to this worm onaccount ol its great slenderness J which has given rise to the fanciful Though this worm is often a foot in length it is never as thick as a knitting. needle. Its color in water is usually drab, but wnen it lives secluded from the light it Is generally white, hence t I ononlfic. namA. variabilis. ' Snakes properly so-called, belong to the backbone or vertebrate series 01 animals ; whereas the true worms.be lone to the backboneless or inverte- 1 brate series. We have no enakes as blender as a knitting needle, or in any wav resembling a slender worm. We nave no neroaiiWD nuiuw nuiu visible to the unaided eye that are par- j 8sitic on human beings. Neither are: they venomous or poisonous. They are, in fact, useful, in so iar a they ! destroy noxious insects like cabbage j worms and grasshoppers. Even should such a worm be Jelt in a cabbage, cook- BcIIctm Blffbt Awfty Allan. ing would render it unnoticeabln, and as it is not poison no one need be afraid to handle 05 eat cabbage on ac count of the mytchical "cabbage snake." GERALD MCCARTHY, Biologist, N. C. Department of Agriculture. Note. Tbe Station will be pleased to identify further specimens, and would be glad to have any assistance or suggestfons that will enable it to ob tain definite information regarding cases of poisoning from "Cabbage Shakes." A Powerful New Shell. Gaston ia Gazette. A new time fuse for use on armor piercing shells loaded with a recently discovered secret explosive of t;reat power, has been invented by war de partment ordinance experts and will, according to o New York American dispatch irom Washington, revolu tionize foreign warship building. Tests of the explosive and fuse have been made and 60 long as the United States government holds the secret, foreign battleships either must double their steel walls or be as wooden frigates against the new destroyer. General Crosier, chief of ordinance, is quoted as baying said that a test of tbe new explosive has been conducted with em inent success at the Sandy Hook prov ing ground and that tbe shell carried its conteuts through the thickest arm or, and that the fuse lived long enough to bav exploded on the interior of a ship of war. The great penetration secured was that of a shell fired from a 12-ineh erun. It niercel 14-mch ir.m-t Armsf hAfnrd npf nmi I mil 1 11B heaviest shield now in use is snid to le only 12 inches tuicfc. Vhere shall I edllCclte Illy daughter? u Send her to IYINE HILL FEMALE Tf Z4 v7? r"It has iusE dosed it most proseroiH session fr-jt1 s ..V iV 1 .JuMlinn fr r.rPnW well lor a ART Denartments are excellent. as --- - 3! Write lor catalogue. L. W. B AGLEY, Prin. June 17, 1902. - - (-19-3m THREE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN Worn Out And Nervous Regained Their Health And Beauty By Taking Peruna. Mips Florence Allan, a beautiful Chi cago girl, writes the following to Dr. S. B. Ilartmsn concerning his estarrhalf ionic, i eruua: 73 Walioa Place. Chicago, lit. "An a tonic tor a worn-out system,',', Peruna stands at tbe head In my cstl" mation. Its effects arc truly wonder-! ful in rejuvenating the entire system, f I keep It on hand all the time, modi never have that tired feeling, as a I j few doses always make mc feel like a T different woman." -"Florence Allan. Thousands of women Buffer from sys- f teraic catarrh. Thl la Mire to produce such ey mptoins as cold feet and hand, sick headache, palpitation of the heart and heavy feelings In the stomach. ThPii begins a neri 3 of experiment. They take medio ine for sick headache, t They take medicine for nervous prostra tion, for palpitation of tho heart, fort dyspepsia. None of these, medicines do any good because they Co not reach the cause of the complaint. Pcrnna at once mitigates all these symptom by removing the cause. Systemic catarrh is the trouble. sya-T teniie catarrh pervades tiie vriioie iyc tem, deranges every organ, weakens every functic n. No permanent cure can lie expected until the pystcmic catarrh Is removed. This is exactly what Pcrnna will do. Miss Cnllen Wan Kxlmwlod Fr.-m Over f Study. ' Miss Rose Cullen, Preeidcnt of the! Young Woman's Club, Butte, MoutAun, writes : f Ifctt Galena street, Butto, Mont, t Pernrta Medicine Co., Columbus, O.: i Gantlemen "Faruna has many friend T lr Itnttf T nnniint sn V too Wlticli in TirftiSO I of it. While finishing school I Wcamo J . . . 1 . . . T very nervous ana cxunusieu in mi rcr- studv. I was weak ami sick, and eouldj neither eat, sleep nor enjoy life. A I couple lKtf tlesof Peruna put new life int me. I find by having it in the house and J taking ado.se on and on.it keeps mc lu flne health. A large immlwr of myj friends place Peruna at the hendof all m ed ici nes." Rose Cullen. Peruna is especially adapted fo pro-t tecting against and curing nervous dis-I ease of run-down women, ns tho tosti monial of Miss Cullen indicates. Miss Blanche Myers, fttiD l'enn street, t Kansas City, Mo., hM me rouowing to say of Peruna: "During each of tho past four seasons I have caught a severe cold, when sud denly chilled after an evening party, and catarrh for several veks would !m the result. One bottle of Peruna cured me, and I shall not dread colds any more as I did." Blanche Myers. An excellent little treatise on Health and Beauty," written especially for wo men, by Ir. Ifartinan, will 13 pent free to any address by .The Peruna Med ici n Co.. of Columbus, Ohio. Who is that Bertie Preacher? WilmiiiKtoil Messenger 6tli. Yesterday a boy went to the poet- j oilice and got theC. W. Polvogt Go's mail. While walking alon' the street the boy dropped a letter acd turned around to pick it up whereupon a white man beat him to tbo letter and 1 picked it up. it was aaaresrca 10 wi. J. 0. Lortin one of Mr. Pol yogi's clerks, l and tbe boy tried to get the man to j give him the letter but he refused to do it and started to open the letter The boy told him not to open it but ; the mantora off thejendof the envelope 1 and pulled out a check for a consider-' able sum of money. Th iov e.nuld not Induce the man to give up ti e letter, so went n t ihe store and told Mr. Loftin tba circum stance. Presently In came tne man with the letter. Stepping up to Mr. IjUI liu lie wu i . c r cm thA Rav. from liertiei county. I'm an honest man. I found lett r and check belonging to you, and I demand a reward for it." , Mr. Loltin took the letter and the ma Qf.inr he cave that sc-calle 1 preach ; er was done in language never hear-g in a Bertie Suuday-school. Jne man beat a hasty retreat and was glad to tr- nut without a reward. He wa lucky not to have been seized by a po liceman, and he may yet fall It to the hands of tbe law lor opening which he knew wasn't his. letter McDukfie's Turpentine acd Mutton Suet Lung Plaster is a certain cure for wooonlng corch, easy and comfortable 1 -t. l i "a alflon. Try tire new remedy for ccs.ivenes.l 1. It affords a pr;icti- Si (5. Its miilC. and M COIIBW CIHbSes Scotland Neck, N. C. Ml n 1 Ttnnrrv 1 J & OJricd, Le Iloyiiw crk. ; 3p'V-" ' i in-'.
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