North Carolina Newspapers

...A. ADYEETISIKO BUSINESS IF YOU ARE A HUSTLER TOU WIXL ADVERTI8E : TOOK Business. rr i7 i H M . WHAT STEAM IS Machinery E. B.HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $i.oo. That Great Propelling Power. VOL. XIX, New Ssrics-Vol. 6. (6-1 8) SCOTLAND NECK, N. CM THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1903. NO. 12 OTTii ADVEBrrKNtNT If KOW hp Coi D E jonx oh ojr .aop uq l o too noA nt H n q n op bmr nv -ifm-sni I All nOA J91IC '00 kos abs noX puy 'dpcrn J3A3 XpamdJ qSnoo tss -op CJ0199J Xxi9q3 s(JdXy scqM sn iqSnti dAq 9Aoq dqs se Auouiijsai qons put I oiq Aia aj8 i pro daspj 0 our paaydap u -ansa Aom ioj qSnoo aioqqm lion pvq r Dyspepsia Cure Digests what yon eat. This preparation contains all of the digestants and digests ail kinds of food. It gives instant relief and never fails to cure. It allows you to eat all - the food you want. The most sensitive stomachs can take it. By its use many thousands of dyspeptics have been cured alter e very thing: else failed. . Is unequalled for the stomach. Child ren with weaic stomachs thrive on it. First dose relieves. A diet unnecessary. Cures all stomach troubles Prepared only by E. C. DeWitt & Co., Chicago The $L bottle contains 2K times the SOc. size. E. T. WHITEHEAD & CO. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Cltacmm an tirantiflM th. h Promote m luxuriant rrovth. Never Mia to Sestoxo Gray 1 1 Mr w M WWUIU uwr PROFESRIONJIL. P.. A. C. LIVERMON, D Dentist. OrricE-Over New Whithead Building Office hours from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to o'clock, p. m. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. K. J. P. WJMBERLEx, OFFICE BRICK HOTEL, SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. DR. H. I.CLARK, . . OFFICE BRICK HOTEL. Main Street, Scotland Neck, N. C. W if A. DUNN, ATTORNE Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices wherever his services are eauired. B. H. SMITH. STUART H. SMITH gMlTH & SMITH, .. " A TTORNE YS-A TLA W. Staten Bld'g, over Tyler & Outterbridge Scotland Neck, N. C. DWARD L. TRAVIb, Attorney and Counselor at Law, 'Money Loaned on Farm Lands. ; CIAUDE KITCHIN. A, P. KITCHIN. KITCHIN & KITCHIN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. " Practice wherever services are required Office : Futrell Building. Scotland Neck, N. C. ESTABLISHED IN 1865. CHASM' WALSH Stem Mi isi thinits ' WORKS, Sycamore St., Petersburg, Va. Monuments, Tombs, Cemetery Curb ing,&c. All work strictly first- class and at Lowest Prices. I ALSO FURNISH IRON FETO, VASES, &C. Designs sent to any address free. In writing for them please . f He jge of de eased and limit as to price, . I Prepay Freishtca ll T7crt Comptre cr tTcri TTlti t!5 o 3p 1 mi pDITOI'S JEISURE jrEoUIS, OBSERVATIONS OF Ex-President Grover Cleveland 'He spent the day at home with his the papers Cleveland Cleveland Sixty-sis. country ; and while he did many things as President of the United States that did not suit the Southern people, he was nevertheless a strong man as Chief Magistrate of the Nation. No doubt he made many mistakes as President, but his opinion on public matters wa never a frivolous one, and it is yet regrrded with respect. The United States Senate has ratified the Panama canal treaty by a vote of 73 to 5. The final debate was long and tedious. This, it is confidently m t 3 believed will mark a new era in the history of Treaty Saunea. -he country and the gputh will share greatly in the benefit. As the Charlotte News says, Uncle Sam may now sally forth with pick and spade and dinner bucket to begin the stupendous job. Admiral John 6. Walker is at the head of the commission to construct the canal ; and he is said to have given it more study than any other man. An item from Logansport, Ind., says the farmers in that region will con vert 'their barb-wire fences into telephones. The item is as follows : "In Barb-wire Telephones. house to house, the system being commonly known here as the barb-wire telephone. Since the demise of the Qyershiner telephone saytem here the old phones are being bought up by the farmers and put in use by connect ing the wire fences and batteries. The system works fine and will be gen erally in use before next year." The cheering news has at last come forth that the coal strike commis sion is finishing up the work of its report. Thanks to, the mild winter, . perhaps not many persons have diedfrroA freez- but if pie had depended on the speedy report of that commission there might 7 have been a different responsibility on. those who were doing the work. The freezing time of this season has passed, but really there is now hope that the cca! sHustioa v,ill t.eaaie&.-ea-jl' ,tU,v it is'. to La hoped 'that " the report of the commission will so present the matter that we shall have or early summer. , There is much said in the press about North CaroHnians going to other States to live. Mr. J. C. Caddell, the new editor ol the Raleigh Times, Our Loss Their Gain. the papers speak disparagingly of North Carolina people going to other States to live. We confess to sharing more or less of this feeling. It's hard to see why anybody wants to leave North Carolina to go elsewhere. And yet they will continue to do it as long as time lasts. Recently I spent a year in another State and I thought I saw the wisdom of North Carolina people going to other States. I often wondered what this particular State would have done without them. Almost every third man I met in some 0 sections was a 'Tar Heel.' The best and most successful business men, the most prominent preachers and teachers were proud to claim tbe old State as their original home even the best and most sensible negroes in the tur pentine woods once lived in North Carolina. So if we lose in the moving of our, people we may at least console ourselves with the thought that others gain." Thousands and thousands of people would hesitate to answer if you. should ask them, Where is the "Maine". They would not remember whether it To Saise the "Maine. sea" are still playing through its hulk. The following from the Atlanta Constitution is interesting : . "The announcement that Foreign -Minister Abarzuza has determined to suggest to the Spanish cabinet that steps be taken to have the wrecked battleship Maine refloated in Havana harbor, in order to discover the cause of her sinking, will be read with interest throughout the United States. The Spaniards haye always contended an investigation would show that the Maine was blown up from within, in stead of from the outside. A good many people in this country, among them some naval experts, haye taken the same position. The general opin ion is, of course, that the destruction of the Maine, which precipitated the . war with Spain, was the act of some Spaniards, but It has never been be lieved that the Spanish government was directly a party to any such act. Just why the Maine has not been raised before this is not easy to under stand. The government of the United States should haye long before this had the hulk lifted from the-bottom of Havana harbor, if only to show that this country is as anxiousLas anybody to absolve Spain from the responsi bility tor such a dastardly act as the sinking of the Maine, if this can " be done. - If the Maine was not destroyed by a torpedo or a mine applied from the outside, all Americans would like to know it. The high character of the chivalry of Spaniards, as shown in the defense of Santiago and by the bravery the commanders and men of the Spanish fleets which were sunk by Dewey and Schley, demonstrated that the highest type of Spaniard could not possibly have been guilty of such an act as the destruction of the Maine. If an investigation of the remains of the ship will throw any pos sible light upon the mystery of her sinking, the American people will not enter a word of protest against the expenditure of any sum which may be necessary to raise her." PASSING EVENTS. was sixty-six years old March 18th. family in his usual quiet way," said that presented a nice cut of him. Mr. is the only living ex-President "of this side of a year nearly eyery barb-wire fence in thiscorjnty will be in use carrying messages from the living or the dying of the"peo5fDlhtio8 of hotel keepers; to create a tried it awhile himself, and here is what he says in a "comment" paragraph about it : "Some of had been taken from the waters of Havana harbor, or whether the "denizens of the Laws of General Interest, The following arc, some of the acts of the Legislature, which are of public interest Public Laws : To issue $300,000 of bonds to run 10 years at not over 4 per cent. Interest ; to borrow $100,000 from the literary fund, payable January 1st, 1906, at 4 per cent, interest ; to appro priate $200,000 to the public schools ; to loan the literary fund $203,000, to the counties, for improvement of pub lic school houses ; ts appropriate $50, 000 for ths celebration of the settlement of Roanoke Island provided $250,000 is otherwise rawed? provide for the payment ; of Xt-Sft in Usances dur ing 1901-1902 ; to itovide for the sale of property in which there is a contin gent remainder ; to fcxend the Code so as to give divorce foi two years' aband onment and allow remarriage five years after the divorce (applies to 1901-1902) : to shorten time of notice of sale ; to prescribe lees for igistering agricul tural leins; to protect public water supplies ; to provide for a coda com mission; to register the sale of adul terated commercial feeding stuffs; to regulate sale, inspection and branding of cotton seed meal ; to provide for registration of trained nurses; to pre vent the abduction and elopement of married women; to regulate labor of children in factories, (none to be al lowed to work under 12 years of age) ; to incorporate the North Carolina Vet erinary Medical Association ; to vali date irregular probates ; to allow rail ways to file petitions tame rale of speed through towns ; to appropriate $10,000 for the exhibit at the St. Louis Expo sition, provided a like amount is raised otherwise ; to define ownership of land bounded by water ; for the better pro tection of persons where corporations act as trustees, guardians, etc. ; to pre vent more thaD. one trustee or director of a" State institution being from one county ; to define ths duties and lia- 'historical commission : to protect tele phone messages, also to protect tele phone and electric liht wires ; to reg ulate procuring dead !bodies for dissec tion ; to require i&Ai "jook contractors to have sufficient depositories; to de fine the practice of medicine and surg ery ; to allow the Secretary of State to charter banks ; to allow judges to reg ulate and limit arguments of counsel in the Superior Courts ; to amend the law regarding arson. - Heme Flower Gardens. Grow the flower you want and do not want too many, says Country Life. In America, most persons, when they make a garden, order a quantity of la bels fatal mistake ! Labels are for collections of plants collections so big that you cannot remember, and when you cannot remember you lose the in timacy, and when you lose the intima cy you lose the essence of the garden. Choose a few plants for the main plant ings. These must be hardy, vigorous, sure to thrive whether it rains or shines. These plants you can buy in quantity and in laree, strong specimens. Each clump or group or border may be dominated by one kind of plant, fox gloves, holloyhocks, spireas, asters. The odd and unusual things you may grow as incidents, as jewelry is an inci dent to good dress. Miscellaneous mix tures are rarely satisfactory. The point Is that the character of the home garden should be given by the plants that " are most sure to thrive. The novelties and oddities -should be sub jects of experiment : if they fail, the garden still remains. It must be galling to Europe's war lord to have. Venzulela make such hopelessly satisfactory terms. Indian apolis Sentinel.., - $100 REWARD $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. . Hall's Catarrh Cure?is the only positive cure known., to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires- a con stitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of tbe system, thereby destroying tbe foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that It fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address,'F. J. tJhenney & Co.. Tole do, O. SSold by druggists, 75c. . Hall's Family Pills are the best. Grip ia Ttrb Days, ca every Jes ay PASTOR SAVED Rev. H. Stnbenvoll, of Elkhorn, Wis., is pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Church of that place. Rev. Steubenvoll is the possessor of two bibles presented to him by Emperor William of Germany. Upon the fly leaf of one of the bibles the Emperor has written in his own handwriting a text. This honored pastor in a recent letter to the Peruna Medicine Co., of Columbus, O., says concerning their famous catarrh remedy, Peruna: The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O.: Gentlemen: had hemorrhages of the lungs tor a long time, and all despaired of me. I took Peruna and was cured. It gave me strength and courage, and made healthy, pure blood. It Increased my weight, gave me a healthy color, and I feel well. It Is the best medicine in the world. If everyone kept Peruna In the bouse It would save many from death every year.' Yours very truly, REV. H. STUBENVOLL. Thousands of people have catarrh who would be surprised to know it, becpgse it has bceii oallad some otJiei rumiittc ht-n catarrh. The fact is, catarrh is catarrh wherever located ; and another fact which is of equally great importanCeTis that Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. Catarrh is an American disease. Folly one-half of the people are afflicted more or less with it in some form. Previous to the discovery of Peruna, catarrh was considered well nigh incurable. Since Tendency to Pensions. Raleigh Time3. The tendency to provide pensions for people is evidently growing in some sections. We see It advocated now to" pension the common school teacher on the ground he gets a email salary and theretore ends up his career with nothing to live on. The great majority of people do just that same thing, reach old age not having proyided for the proverbial "rainy day." The point we make is this, tbe men who have made the best provision for old age are not meurwho haye held lucrative positions receiving large sal aries, but men who have saved a com petency out of their small earnings. Look around at tho men who have succeeded in all departments of busi ness, and you will be surprised to see how many of them spent their best years laboring tor small compensation, and now have something put by for infirmity and old age. Help misdirect ed is worse than no help at all. It is right and just to extend aid to some people, under some circumstances, but this promiscuous pensioning which seems to be gaining in favor is only calculated to breed a lot of idlers and ingrates who come to believ? that it is the business of one part of the country to provide meat and bread and clothes, homes and education for others. Literacy is Growing In the South. Success. One of the most helpful signs in tbe South is the marked decline in illiter acy among the children from ten to fourteen years of age, as shown by a recent census report. Taking the six teen States along the border and below Mason and Dixon's .line, the. gain in literacy has been nearly seyen per cent, within ten years. In North Car olina, ' South Carolina, Georgia, Ala bama, Mississippi and Louisiana, where the percentage has been greatest on ac count of the black: belt and the moun tain whites, there" has been wonderful improvement, the gain reaching nearly nine per cent, Fully three-fourths of the children can now read. Fifteen years ago, only about two-thirds could read. So wide sweeping is the educa tional revival "in thh. South that it is safe to predict';: that, ten years hence, nine-tenths of the new generation, both white and black, will be able to read. ; WHO WAS BEFRIENDED BY AN EMPEROR BY the introduction of Peruna to the medical profession thousands of cases are cured Minnally.- - ;;. Mr. W. D. Smith, a well-known grocer of Port Huron, Mich., writes : "By following your instructions and taking Peruna and Manalin I am cured of catarrh. I had catarrh for twelve years and quite a bad cough so I could not sleep nights. I do not have any cough now, and if I feel anything in the throat I take a swallow of Peruna and I am alright." W. D. Smith. WHEN PAPA WAS A BOY. 1 Youth's Companion. When papa was a little boy you really couldn't find In all the State of Washington a child so quick to mind. His mother never called but once, and he was always there ; And he never made the baby cry, or - pulled his sister's hair ; He never slid down balusters or made the slightest noise, And never in his life was known to fight with other boys ; He always studied bard at school and got his lessons right ; And chopping wood and milking cows were papa's chief delight. He always rose at 6 o'clock and went to bed at 8, And never lay abed till noon, and never sat up late. He finished Latin, Fiench and Greek when he was 10 years old, And he knew the Spanish alphabet a soon as he was told ; And never in all bis life forgot to shut the stable doors, He never grumbled when he had to do tbe evening chores ; He never, never thought of play until his work was done ; He labored hard from break of day until the set of sun. He never scraped his muddy shoes up on the parlor floor, And never answered back his ma, and never banged the door, "But, truly, I could never see," said little Dick Malloy, "How he could do these things ana really be a boy." The batlleship Massachusetts at Peu Bacola in firing with sub-calibre gunstt a moving target distant 200 yards, but so reduced in size as to be equivalent to a target 17 feet by 21 feet at a distance of . 1,700 yards, made ten bits out of ten shots with a turret gun and six hits out of seven Bhots with a broad side' gun. -;"-.' - ... Washington will soon -have an. op portunity t turn its undivided atten tion to baseball. Pittsburg Gazette. FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS. Mrs. Wmslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for sixty years by millions of mothers tor their children while teeth ing, with perfect success It soothes the child, softens tbd gums, alias all pain, cares wind colic, and is the best tremedy for Diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor little r sufferer; immediately. Sold by Druggists in ever part of . the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sore and ask (or Milra -Wlnalow'a Suffered Fifteen Tears. ' C.FvGerding, Milburn, Neb., writes! "I contracted a heavy cold about fifteen years ago and tried all kinds of patent medicines and drugs recom mended for a cold or heavy cough, but found none to help me until I com menced using Peruna. My age la seventy-eight years, and I am better now than I have been for vears. I still keep using j'our great medicine, and am sim improving in health. I recommend it to all sufferers with coughs and colds." C. F. Gerding. Peruna, The Greatest Remedy Known For Catarrh. Mr. Cbas. II. Stevens. 97 Seventeenth Street, Detroit, Mich writes : " It affords me great pleasure to testify to the merits of Peruna as a remedy for catarrh. I suffered for some time with chronio nasal catarrh, but after five months' treatment durine which time I used seven bottles of Peruna I am pleased t say that I am entirely well, there beinj; not the slightest trace of the catarrh left. Peruna is without doubt the creates remedy known for catarrh." Chas. II. Btevens. Afflicted Since Childhood With Catarrh. Mr. Elbert S. Richards, Milton, Conn.. writes : lI am near sixty-eight years of nzc. and have from childhood ix en afflicted with catarrh in the head, and, for the pant four or five years bcenmuch afflicted with it in my eyes; they being watery, would materate a good deal, and stick together in the night. My condition was bo fully described in yourjalmanac that I decided to try Peruna- 1 1 am thankful to say that I now con sider myself entirely free from catarrh, and only use Peruna occasionally uw as a tonic. Accept my sincero thaukrf for your personal interest in my case. "My son, til years of age. has been using Peruna for a number of weeks for catarrh in the head and has obtained great relief." Elbert fi. llichards. Catarrh Thirty Vcarn. Mr. Andrew Earru, 910 N. Kid.io Ave., Chicago, 111., writes : "It gives mo great pleasure to testify to the merits of such a worthy remedy for catarrh as your Peruna. I had suffered for thirty years from this very disagreeable disease and had tried many so-called remedies but until I used l'e runa none had the desired effect. "I have been connected with the Chicago Police Department for the past twenty-eight yenrs. T can cheerfully recommend Peruna to anyono suffering from catarrh." Andrew Barrett. If you do not derive prompt and satis factory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Ilartmau, giving a fulLstatement of your case and ho will be pleased to give jrou his valuable ad vice gratis. Address Dr. Ilartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. Profits in Farming. Selected. In computing the profits connected with farming it Is never fair to take results for any single year. There is of necessity, owing to climatic condi tion?, markets, crop failures in other portions ot tbe earth, warp, legislation and other thing?, nothing uniform in farm profits one jenr wilh another, and to correctly estimate the pr- fits of a well manage! farm no less a peri4 than ten ynars rhould be taken, tf.o average profits fir niirli a term then fairly representing the profits of the business. For irstnnco, wo haye been told by several LuMnes.i farmers that the profits on their frtn operations for the year 1901 were not less lb an 20 per cent, upon the capita! iaves ed, this net, after all expenses were drducted. Then we have known mo;o than one year when the larm was operated at an actual loss. But few farmers keep any book accounts with their f.inns, and, as one man told us, the only way ho knew. when he was making any money was when bo took a load of hogH to market and there was not some fellow waiting for the money when ho got home. Some men keep their word bocatue no one will take it. SEVERE ATTACK OF GRIP Cured bv Oxe Bottlk ok Chamueu laik's Cough Remedy.' "When I had an attack of grip last winter (tbe second one) I actually cured myself with one bottle of Cham berlain's Cough Remedy," pays Frank W. Perry, editor of tbe Enterprise, Shortsville, N. Y. "This is the honcbt truth. I at times kept from coughing myself to pieces by taking a teaspoon ful of this remedy, and when the coughing spell would come on at night I would take a dose and it seemed that in the briefest Interval the cough would pass off ard I would go to sleep perfectly free" from cough and its 06-' " company ing pains. To say that the remedy acted as a most agreeable tur prise is putting it very mildly. I had no idea that it would or could kmck out tbe grip, simply because I Imd -never tried it for such a purpose, bin it did, and it seemed with tbe cond ai tack'of coashjng the rorardy ciiiwd it to not only be of lees duration, but the pains were far less revere, a nd 1 hud not ued. the conte'its of dne bottle be fore Mr. Grip h :d hid me adieu." For sile by E. T-Whitehe d Co, Scot-, land Seek, M . O., anu LeggcU's Drug . ' ,Hefc3wd,2f., - -