ADVEBTXSING IB"7" BUSINESS WHAT STEAM IS TO- Machinery, IF YOU ARE A HUSTLER roo WILL ADVERTISE TO0 Business. rr T7 n ALTBL H K E. E. MILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. EXCELMOR" IS OUR MOTTO. SUBSCRIPTION PRIOR fJl.oo. That Great . Pkopellinq Power. VOL. XIX. lew Saries-Vol; 6. (6-1 8) SCOTLAND NECK; N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1903. NO. 18 Skhi. I our Advertipfmrict i Now MMGNWE D D E Tired Out " I was very poorly and could hardly get about tile bouse. I was tired out all the time. Then I tried Ayers Sarsaparilla, and it only took two bottles to make me feel perfectly well." Mrs. N. S. Swin ney, Princeton, Mo. Tired when you go to bed, tired-when you. get up, tired all the time. Why? Your blood is im pure, that's the reason. You are living on the border line of nerve ex haustion. Take Ayer's Sarsaparilla and be nnirk Itr rntvrl $1. 0 a tattle. Ask yonr doctor what h thinks of Ayers Sarsaparilla. He knows all about this grand old family medicine. Follow his advice and we will be satisfied. 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VASES, &C. tn nnv address free In writing for the n ylesu! aUe age of de ead and limit as to price. - J- : I Prepay Fretekton 11 ITcrk C mpare our rfcrk wttl ttst o EI OBSERVATIONS OF DITOI'S In a dinner speech before the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association at Washington, April 13th, Mr. William Jennings Bryan said some pleasing Jefferson for Newspapers concernin Jefferson and the press! He reoi ted Jefferson's high regard for the press and his confidence in the press to give the truth. Mr. Bryan said : "So great was Lis (Jefferson's) faith in the triumph of truth, and so willing was he to have error presented if truth could only be left free to combat it, that he was opposed to censorship of the press, and I believe he. gave expression to the strongest eulogy of the press that any statesman has ever ottered, when he said that If he must choose between a government without newspapers and newspapers without a government, he would prefer to risk the newspapers ' without a goyernment. He said that public opinion would measurably correct things if public opinion was left free ; but that a government with out the free expression of public opinion would soon become a despotism.'' The bank official Sims, who stole $94,000 from an Atlanta bank with which to keep up his fine dairy farm has beer sentenced to six yers in Only Six Years. the P8nitentiarv- Here's a httle spat about the matter between the Raleigh Times and the Greenville Reflector : The Times says : "The State of Georgia, like the State of Worth Carolina, has a governor, with a good heart, as well as a big brain. He is capable of making just discrimination in the matter of par dons, as well as in other things, and go we leel sure this young man will receive just treatment on the part of Governor Terrell and. the pardoning board of Georgia." Tbe Greenville Reflector replies to the Times as fol lows : "Just treatment in this case can be nothing else than a full sentence being served by this young criminal. The people he robbed may not be 'well bred,' as the Times says Sims is, but they didu't steal their savings. To suggest that Sims be pardoned, even after serving all but one hour, of bis sentence, is maudlin sentiment, and nothing else." Seldom does one read of a more appalling disaster than that which oc curred a week ago at Turtle Mountain, near Frank in British Columbia. A Great Disaster. some volcanic eruption, and over a hundred persons were instantly killed. . Tons of rock were hurled down upon houses which were crashed like egg shells. The debris dammed Old Man riyer which runs through the town and closed the mouth of a mine in which there was a number of miners at work. Th Cfcarlotto Obeer-ror psmti-apkscl ou tlto 'fiicootc - ma luiiOWt) I"'" "Was there ever In the past history of horrors such an accident as that at the little village of Frank in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies? At a midnight hour thousands of tons of rock caused by a fissure in an over hanging mountain are hurled upon the town, crushing houses like egg shells and grinding to powder their sleeping inmates. Not content with this havoc, the accident is intensified by the damming up of the river that flowed through the town, thus placed in jeopardy of a Johnstown disaster. And yet again, part of the mass of earth from the mountain top fell upon the mouth of the shaft of a mine, entombing a number of miners who had to dig their way out, which they were fortunately able to do, for aid could not reach them from the surface. Rock-slide, flood, mine-entombment all in one ! A triple disaster that breaks the record." The Commoner gives a sketch of Chief Justice Waiter Clark and of his literary work it says : "Judge Clark has written or edited over six volumes, most of them Court bench. Judge Clark's Work. Annotated Code,' which has gone through three editions, each time en larged. Also 'Laws for Business Men 'Clark's Overruled Cases, and an ar ticle of 1,100 pages 'Appeal and " Error' in the Cyclopedia of Law which Northern law journals have pronounced the most complete treatise ever written on that subject. Besides he has annotated 32 volumes of the Su preme Court reports, which have been issued by the State, thus bringing each case down to date. This has been an invaluable work, especially to the young lawyers who otherwise could not have obtained these reports which were out of print. He also compiled the legal history of the two railroads of which he was counsel and director. His share in the Supreme Court reports since he has been on the bench would fill seven or eight vol umes alone. He. has translated out of the French 'Constant's Private Memoirs of Napoleon,' three volumes (illustrated). As is well known be has edited without compensation of any kind five volumes 'Regimental Histories of North Carolina,' and eleven volumes of 'State Records,' and has two more volumes of the latter in press or preparation. He has been a contributor to Harper's, North American Review, Arena and other leading magazines.' His magazine articles and published speeches would fill two or three large volumes. He has addressed the State Bar Association of Tenn essee, the National Association of Railroad Commissioners at Denver, Col., and the State Bar Association at Topeka, Kan. A SURE THING, r: : It is said that nothing is sure except death and taxes, but that is not alto gether true. Dr. King's New Discov ery for Consumption is a sure cnre for all throat and lung- troubles. Thou sands can testify to that. Mrs. C. B. VanMitre, of Shepherdstown, W. VtC, says, "I bad severe attack of Bron chitis and for a year tried everything I heard of, but got no relief. One bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery then cured rftlntalv." It's infallible for Croup, Whooping Cough, Grip, Pneu monia and Consumption. Try It. .its guaranteed by E. T. Whitehead fc XJo., lM.aVlAa fann KAiT. il.nvtTlafa I rifll UUbUOO size 50o and $1.00. SURE Jip U 1S , PA SSING E VE NTS. At 4 o'clock in the morning the top of the moun tain which hung over the town was blown off by since he has been on the Supreme Of law books, he has issued 'Clark's When you want a pleasant physic try Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They are easy to take and pleasant in effect. For sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co,, Scotland Neck, and Leggett's drug store, Hobgood. : Judge ; Officer, what Is this prisoner charged with? Officer; Electricity, Your Honor. I caught him stealing trolly wire. Philadelphia Telegraph. QUICK ARREST. ' J. A. Gullege, of Verbena, Ala., was twice In the hospital-from a severe case of piles causing 24 tumors. After doctors and all remedies failed, Buck len's ; Arnica .Salve quickly-arrested further inflamation and cured him.; It conquers aches and kill? pain. 25c. at E. T. Whitehead fc Co., druggists' To: esra- a. s?&irhE3 ay Advantage of Ccontry Training for "'Boys. President Eliot. ;" When a child grows up in the coun try, it gets a natural training in ac curate observation. It wants to find a four leaf clover ; it runs to see where the green snake went to ; tracks the wood-chuck to its hole and gets it out ; it learna the sqrjgs of the birds, and when the smelts run up the brooks and when the twilight is just right for find ing the 'partridges. In short, the country child geia naturally a broad training In observation. It also has the farm as an admirable training in 1 manual labor. From an early "age it can actually eon tbute to the care oi animals, the successful conduct of the household, and the general welfare of the family. In the city all this natur al training is lacking, and substitutes for it have to be artificially provided. This necessity has brought into our schools natural-study and manual train ing, to teach the child to use its eyes and its hands, and to develop its senses and its muscular powers; and these new beneficent agencies in education, j already well in play, are in the near (future to co far bevond anv sta&re at present reached.? Wa do not yet tee how to replace in urban education the training which too farmer's boy or the seacoast boy gets from his habitual contest with the adverse forces of na ture. The Gotta Island boy, on the coa3t of Maineoes out with his father in the early winter morning in a half open sailboat to visat their lobster traps and bring home the entrapped lobsters. They start with a gentle breeze and a quiet sea, though tthe temperature is low. The boy knrs bow to steer the boat five or six ! to 3ea, where the traps are sunk Oii some rocky spot wh ich the lobsters love. The father is busy pulling the traps. The boy watches the weattu, and suddenly he says, "ather, them is a northwester coming. See the, elouds driving this way over the hills," The boy knows just as well as tl.-3 father what that means. It mean a fearful beat of Windward to get h one, facing a savage muu nuu a iaiui temperature, me spray uadQii.g lae vwjeL j.a.j freezing to the sails and ropes and loading down the bow with ice. It means a me-and-death struggle for hours, the question being, shall we get into harbor or not before we sink ? Now, that is a magnificent training for a boy, and the sheltered city offers nothing like it. The adverse forces of nature, if not so formidable that men cannot cope with them, are strenuous teachers; but in modern cities we hardly know that the wind blows, or that the flood is coming, or that bitter cold is imperiling all animal life. The Position or a College President. From "Milking a Choice of a Profession," in the May Cosmopolitan. A successful college president to-day occupies one of the most enviable posi tions in American society. A trusted specialist id an American college is not only assured of a respectful hearing when he writes or speaks, bnt he is frequently called to the seat of the state and national government for ad vice by governor, legislative of con gressional committee, and also by the President of the United States. Dur ing the past twenty-five years, the sal ary of superior teachers in the service of the state has been nearly doubled. In the case of the higher positions in many of our municipalities, practically a lire-tenure nas been estabiisnea. The salaries of not a few secondary school masters now equal, and in many cases exceed, those oi the judges of our state and federal courts. The supreme ly desirable college professorships catry incomes equal to, and exceeding those of, a large proportion of the members of the medical and legal professions. Presidential salaries in our colleges and universities have been advanced to as much as fitteen thousand dollars a year.. Looking at the remaining con sideration, it may be said that the social standing and influence of members of the teaching-profession have advanced more rapidly than has been the case in any of the other careers to which edu cated men devote themselves.- Reflec tion and observation along this line present facts suggestive of a revolution not only in our social life but also in our religions life. YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE Taking when you take" Grove's Taste less Chili Tonic because tbe formula is plainly printed on every bottle show ing that it Is simply Iron and Quinine in tasteless form. No Cure, No Pay. 50c. aTwroDegrs. j- cacvcjy THE SMELL OF FLOWERS JUST WHAT SHE NEEDED . ' M In the Nick of Time. Youth's Companion. - Mary Searle was, as she would have said, "at the end of the rope." It was May on the Western ranch. It had been a long, bard winter. Mary's three babies had been happy and well, but what active fset and bands and tongues they had, and how "mother" was called on every waking minute, no one bat "mother" knew. Now, with the coming of spring, she had been seized with that desperate homesickness which comes to the New Eugland girl on tbe vast prairies, She loathed the flat expanse of treeless plain. She hated the thought of the great droves of cattle. She .dreaded the faces of the rough ranchmen who must be fed and housed for the work of the great farm. With a hungry longing she longed for the sight of mountain j, of pines, of flowing water and of the little village street ; for the sound of women's voices, and for all tbe pleasant social interests in life in the home of her childhood. She had ceased to sleep well. Eyery bit of her will-power was needed to re strain her from some wild and desper ate deed she scarcely knew what. Of course a good cry would do her good, but she seemed to have forgotten how to cry. Then Tom was too busy even to know that anything was tbe matter. Would he care, if he did know? Was he . not all wrapped up in the spring work and tbe prospect of making "big money" this year? This was the situation on Saturday, the first day of May and it was full ol peril, as any doctor would have known if he had looked at Mary Searle's tense face, and the dilated pupils of her eyes, and heard tbe strained tones of her voice. When Tom came home that night be brought a packet of mail. He be lieved in keeping up with the times, and there were papers and magazines, and there were sure to b. lettm iram the old home.' Mary took up the bundle indifferently. Her mother's letter lay on. top, and she opened it. She glanced over the pages oi family news, hardly knowing what she read. Sbe came to the last leaf. "I 2m sending you," sbe read, "by this mail a little box of arbutus. I hope it will do you good, dear. I'm sure it will. How I wished you were with me as I picked tbe blossoms this afternoon ! Not a glimmer of sun shine had they ever seen till I lifted them out of the.r gloomy, chilly caverns of snow and dead leaves. I never gather them without wondering if tbe Pilgrims found them at Plymouth in the spring after that terrible winter, and if they plucked heart and courage with tbe fragrant blossoms. - "They are tbe very flowers for the pioneer; and I am sending them to you, my daughter, with a prayer that you may not falter, as you do in your own place the same pioneer work to which the early settlers in New Eng land were called." As Mary read, her aching heart eemed to rise into her throat. She snatched the box, broke the ' string and raised the cover. The poignant, delicious fragrance of tbe Mayflowers met her. She buried her face in the delicate bloom, and in another instant soL'3 shook her and the welcome tears poured down her face. Tom found her fo ten minutes later, aud his "Why, little woman 1" was very tender, as be gathered her into his arms. He bad the whole story then, and he blamed birr self, and he praised her, and he petted her, and he laid plans lor tbe future ab in one breath. Was it the familiar fragrance ot tbe Mayflowers that brought tbe tears to bis eyes? At all events, the crisis was past at the rancb, and Mary told tbe exact truth when she wrote her mother, "The lovely Mayflowers came safely on the first of May in the nick of tipn !" $ 100 REWARD 5100. 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 Curegis 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 noon the blood and mucous eurfaees of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up tbe constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith In its curative powers, that tbey offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. - Address, F. J. Obenney & Co.. Tole do.O. - - - .COT Sold by druggists, 75c. ' - Hull's Family Pllb are the best; The Tromhcne Fiend. Henry Edward Warner, in The Baltimore News. Tooty-toot-toot ! Rooty-tnot-toot I Umph! OOMPH! Umplety-oot! Oh ! what a grinding of agony that, The man with the horn in the next- door flat ! He starts at the end of the horn with a wail And groans, grunts and tbriels to the top of the scale. And wiggle! and snorts, And romps and cavorts, And angrily shrieks, And plaintively speak,. And murmurs and sighs, And giggles acd cries, And stutters aud squea'x, And madly appeals, And pleads ani imp'orea. And bellows ani ro.irs, -e And fiendishly howl. And savagely growls, And calls and commands, And shouts and detnaiidf, And swears all the cuticule off oi bis hands As he howls, growls, whines, pines, tears, swears, . moans, groans, leaps, weepe, bawls, calls, And sends a grim echo to shatter the halls, As he sweeps bis trombone to the end of tbe scale And winds up the feat with a harrow ing wail ! Tooty-toot-toot ! Rooty-tixit-toot ! Umph! OOMPH! Uuiplety-oot ! --Oh ! what a grinding of agony tbat, The man with the horn in the next door flat ! A Tribute to "Dai" Kansas City Journal. The editor of tbe Stevens County Reveille has eot tired of hearing moth er praued and dad neglected, and has scratched off a few lines of glowing tribute to dad. "We happened in a home tbe other night," he says, "and saw tbe legend worked in letters of red, 'What is home without a mothei ?' Across tne room was another brief, 'God bless our home.' -iiuit, nusn.iuo uiawei wait UUU bless our. dad?' He gets up early, lights the fire, boils an egg, grabs his dinner pail and wipes off tLe dew of the dawn with his boots while many a mother is sleeping. He makes the weekly hand-out for the butcher, the grocer, the milkman and baker, and his little pile is badly worn before he has Leen home an hour. He stands off the baiMff and keeps tbe rent paid up. "If there is a noise during tbe night dad is kicked in the back ai d made to go down stairs to find the burglar and kill bim. Mother darns the socks, but dad bought tbe socks in tbe first place and the needles and tho yarn after ward. Mother does up tbe fruit ; well, dad bought it all, and jars and mar cost like the mischief. Dad buys chickens for Sunday dinner, caives them himself and draws tbe neck from the ruins after everyone el-e is served. 'What is home without a mother?' Yes, that is all right, but what is home without a father? Ten chances to one it is a boarding bouse, father is under the slab and tbe landlady is the widow. Dad, here's to you ; jou've got your faulte you may have lota of 'em but you're all right, and we n ill miss you when you're gone." DR. WIMBERLEYS CERTIFI CATE. This is to certify that 1 have used Hancock's Liquid Sulphur in my prac tice and haye tested it sufficiently to know it to be a remedy of great merit. Have used it with curative results in caees that nothing else would benefit. J. P. WlHBSKLEY, M. D. Scotland Neck, N.C., Oct. 27, 1902. "Why is it that wealthy people be come so cold and cynical ?" ''Tbey don't necessarily," answered Mr. Com rox. "They have their enthusiasms. The tiouble is that a rich man ean't admire anything' without being solicit ed to buy it." Washington Star. FOR TWENTY YEARS I have suffered with Eczema on my hands and by using One Bottle of Han cock's Liquid Sulphur I have found great relief. - J. H. Harden, Spring Hill, N.C. KMSBBBBBBBBBBaaaBBaHiaillSaMBSSVBISBBaBBBWMaBM Bennie Pa, what is a preferred creditor, any way? Pa A preferred creditor, my son, is one who doesn't bother us much with .his bill. Phila delphia Press. FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS. Mrs. Window's Soothing Syrup has been used lor sixty yean oy minions oi mothers for their children while teeth ing, with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, alias all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best tmmedv for Diarrhoea.: It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. Sold by Druggists in ever part of the world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be aure and ask for "Mrs. Wlnstow'a Soothine 8vrup. and take no other BUSY HOUSEWIVES, Pe-ru-na a Prompt and Permanent Cure for Nervousness. MRS. LULU LARMER. --t-T--r-T-T-f--T-T-t-- - . . Mrs. Lulu Larmer, S tough ton, Wis, says: For two yeara I suffered with ner vous trouble and stomach disorders until, it seemed that there was nothing to m but a bundle of nerves. "I was very irritable, could not 6leep, rest or compose myself, and was certain ly unfit to tako care of a household. I took nerve tonics and pills without benefit. When I began taking Per una I grew steadily better, my nerves grew stronger, my rest was no longer fitful and to-day I consider myself .in perfect health and strength. 44 My recovery was 6lo-w but sure, butl persevered and was rewarded by perfect health." Mrs. Lulu Larmor. Mrs. Anna B. ITlehart y, recent Super intendent of the W. C. T. U. headquar ters, at Galesburg, 111., was for ten yean one of the leading women there. JIci husband, when living, was first Prcsi dent of tho Nebraska Wesleyan Unl versity at Lincoln, Neb. In a letter written from 401 Sixty seventh street, W, Chicago, 111., slu says: I would not bo without Teruna foi ten times its cost.'' Mrs. Anna B Fleharty. Summer Catarrh," a book written bj Dr, Hartman on the subject of tho ner vous disturbances peculiar to summer, sent free to any address by The Peruni Medicine Go., Columbus, Ohio. Have You a Eoy to Spare? Exchange. Can you furnish it one? It is n gient factory, and unles? it ran get two mil lions from each generation for raw ma terial some of these factories must closs out, and its operations muH be thrown ou a cold world, and the public revenuo will dwindle. "Wanted, 2,C00,000 boys!" the notice. One family out of every five must lurnish it ore to keep up tbe supply. Will you help? Which of your boys will it be? The Minotaur of Crete had to have a trireme full of fair maidens each year, but the Mino taur of America demands a city full of boys each year. Are you a father? Haye you contributed a boy? If not, some other family has had to give mo:e than its share. Are you not telfi-h, voting to keep the saloons open to grind up the boys,and theu doing noth it keep up the supply? Our, boys as well as their fathers and motbers,may well give serious thoughts to the question asked on a placard posted among the advertisements in some street cars. The placard reads as follows : "A sa- ljon can no more be run without us ing up boys than a flouring mi'l with out wheat or a saw mill without logs. The only question is: Whose boys? Yours or mine? Our boys or our neighbor's?1' A part of the responsibility of ans wering that question falls on the boys themselves. Are tbey willing to ruin tbemselve to help support a saloon keeper? Think of it, boys, and let it not be you or your friends who fur nish tbe material on which the saloon Keeper prospers. . . Everyone needs a good blood purifier In the spring. Rbeumacide is recog nized as the best wherever known. Reluse all substitutes. Does not injure the digestive organs. A superb laxative and tonic. At druggists. Managing Editor Well, what's the trouble? Assistant The beauiy editor is away, and a woman writes to know what to do with a wrinkle in her fore- bead. Managing Editor Tell her to putty it up and forget It. Inland Printer. HOW TO WARD OFF AN ATTACK OF RHEUMATISM. "For years when spring time came on and I went into gardening, I was sure to have an attack of rheumatism and every attack, was more severe than the preceding one," says Josie McDon ald, of Man, Logan county, West Va. "1 tried everything with no relief whatever, until I procured a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm, and the firt application gave me ease, and before x the first bottle was. used I felt like a new person. Now that I feel that I am cured, but I always keep a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Balm in the house, and when I feel any symptoms of a re turn I soon drive it away with one or , two applications of this liniment." For sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co , Scotland Neck, and Leggett's Drug Store, Hobgood. -f s -