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:ADVEETISIMQ IF YOU ARE A HUSTLER 1ST' tbl IT if l rou wxtt ADVKKTI8E- XVUH Business. BUSINESS - - WHAT STEAM IS TO- Machinery, H K SUBSCRIPTION PRICfif4U.it. E. E. HITLXARD, Editor and Proprietor. EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. SCOTLAND NECK, N. G THTTRSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1903. XO.32 HMl OUR AOVKRViiSKM KNT IK l' mat Great Propelling Power. VOL. XIX. w Series--Vol. 6. (6-1 8) Commonweal 0 0 My Hair "I had a very severe sickness that took off all my hair. I pur chased a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor and it brought all my hair back again." W. D. Quinn, Marseilles, 111. One thing is certain, Ayer's Hair Vigor makes the hair grow. This is because it is a hair food. It feeds the hair and the hair grows, that's all there is to it. It stops falling of the hair, too, 'and al ways restores color to gray hair. SI.M a kettle. All If your druggist cannot supply yon, send as one dollar and wa will express you a bottle. Be sure and give the name of your nearest express office. Address. J. C. ATEB CO., Lowell, Hul. Do You Enjoy What You Eat? Yon can eat whatever and whenever you like if you take Kodol. By the use of this remedy disordered digestion and diseased stomachs are so completely, restored to health, and the full performance of their functions naturally, that such foods as would tie one into a double-bow-knot are eaten without even a "rumbling" and with a posi tive pleasure and enjoyment. And what is more these foods are assimilated and transformed into the kind of nutriment that is appropriated by the blood and tissues. Kodol is the only digest ant or combination of digestants that will digest all classes of food. In addition to this fact, it contains, in assimilative form, the greatest known tonio and reconstructive properties. Kodol cures indigestion, dyspepsia and afl disorders arising therefrom. Kodol Digests What Von Eat Makes the Stomach Sweet. Bottles only. Recuiar size. $1.00. holdtne 2X time the trial size, which sell for 50 cents. . Prepared by E. 6. DeWITT CO., mileage, lib E. T. WHITEHEAD & CO. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM m and twanlifiM the t Promote m lmiukat arowth. Never Mia to Restore Gray r IV u ji xonuuui vwiri Corel scalp diMuea a hair falling. gte.-ndsi.00at Dniggbl. INDIGESTION (1 TT J) T? "Himmediately by ; U H Hi 1the use of Hicks' 10c. 25c. 50c. at drug stores. Capudine PROFESSIONAL It. A. C. LIVEEMON, Dentist. fi FicE-Over New Wbithead Building Otlice hours from i) to 1 o'clock ; 2 to o'clock, p. in. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. 11. J. P. WIMBERLK 5t , N OFFICE BSICK HOTEL, SCOTLAND NECK. N. C. Wr A. DUNN, l A TT ORN E Y-A T-L AW. Scotland Neck, N. C. Fmctices wherever his services are en u i rod K. H. SMITH. STUART H. SMITH jJMiTH & SMITH, A TTORNEYS-A TLA W. Staten Bld'g. over Tyler & Outterbridge Scotland JNecK, . E I) WARD L. TRAVIb, A Itornev and Connselor at Law, T A T IH v hi r i,0T Money Loaned on Farm Jjtmd. CLVUDE KITCHIS. , A. P. KITCHIN KITCHIN & KITCHIN, ATmRVEYK-AT.LAW. Pr.i ;tis wherever services are req uired Office: Futrell" Building. Scotland Neck, N. C. ESTABLISHED IN 1865 CHAS M WALSH Sisan lUrble and Grinite WORKS, Sycamore St., Petebsbubg, Va M ivi meats, Tombs, Cemetery Carl ig, Ac. All work strictly first- class and at Lowest Prices. I ALSO FURNISH IRON TENONS. VASES. &C. designs sent to any aadress free In writing for thetu Ue age of de e i ! ! and limit a to plce. I Prepay Fretehtcn alJYfori C -j n:ira oir WftrTk v"K"y .""" OS." pDITOr'S JpEISURE jJoUlS. OBSERVATIONS x OF It has gone out through the press recently that there has been trouble between the white people and the colored people at Henrietta, N. G. The Bad White Boys. duct became well nigh intolerable when the colored boys returned the abuse. This instance ought to be a warning to bad white boys to behave themselves and especially towards the negroes, for race troubles are some times the very worst kind. tut The number of railway wrecks seems to be on the increase, and there is reason to conclude In many instances that the wrecks are the result of care Eailway Wrecks. of an order or the heedless handling of a signboard may lead to disastrous wrecks. Na people on the earth ought to be more careful in their work than railroad employes, for the destiny and safety of eyery passenger who boards a railroad train depend entirely upon the care and faithfulness with which employes do. their duty. And this means much when we remember how many people are on railroad train eyery moment of time every year from the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December. " t t t t The Langley air ship was tried from Widewater, Va., last Saturday. The machine made a trip of from four to six hundred yards. By deflection of one wing its course was turned and it struck the AlT Ship Trial. waiers cf the Potomac with full force and went down. It was going at the rate of 40 miles an hour, and the experiment was entirely successful. Chief assistant "Manly, of the Langley exposition, made the following statement : "The experiment was entirely successful. All the data which this machine was designed to furnish was obtained. The equilibrium was perfect, the power adequate and the supporting sur face ample. No accident occurred. Some of the wood work of the wings and rudder was slightly damaged by the grappling hooks used in taking the aerodrome from the water, but no essential parts were injured. Wer3 another test desired this afternoon the same machine could be used. I , have nothing further to say at present. I shall make a full report of the test to Secretary Langley." " - t t t t Charity and Children was moved last week to defend our good' old State against some insinuations that Iiave been cast, against our people. Among other "And there is Good in North Carolina. about North Carolina without looking for the bad. She cannot equal Massachusetts in the matter of general education. But her people are better people than those of Massachusetts, and Noith Carolina is by far the better State to live In. This is one reason : Her people are native and to the manner born. They accept and believe the Bible and bring up their children to fear the Lord. Not all of them-do, but we are speaking broadly ol the two. Her climate is better than that of Massachusetts and it her industrial development continues she will in ten years' time leave New England limping along behind her in the great cotton manufacturing business which has enriched that I leak and sterile section. North Carolina has no Boston, which Is another great point in her favor. The population of the State is yet living in the country, and plain country folks are the bone and binew still." .(.- . t t t t Small-pox bas been more or less prevalent in North Carolina for the past four years, and the people generally haye heard so much of it and in some places have seen so much of it they now re- The Savages off Small gard u a common thing. Nothing like the 0 . - fear of the disease prevails now that prevailed say twenty years ago. Then whenever small-pox broke out the people of the entire region were thrown into confusion and consternation,. and great fear and uneasiness prevailed throughout the State. Dr. R. H. Lewis, secretary of the State board of health , say that during the past four years two hundred persons have died of small-pox in North Carolina, and he pre dicts that with the return of cold weather the disease may spread and be come more general. It has been of a mild type in the State, so much so that in many places there has been considerable question as to whether or not it was really small-pox. In view of the probable spread of the disease the coming winter and also the probability that it may be mors flagrant, it is a timely suggestion that the people take precaution against it by sub mitting to vaccination ; for it seems to be well settled by the highest and beet scientific authority - that vaccination does effectually prevent the dread disease. j j j j Reforms' sometimes take such turns that they lose their point of in terest and fail to appeal to intelligent people with any degree of good re " suit. Such instances depend upon the spirit Temperance Reform. actaate4 the reformat agitation. Every re form carries with it more or less agitation, and some, classes of agitators have always proved a blessing to the world. The agitators who agitate with no personal or selfish motive, but from the earnest, deep set purpose of doing good, generally do good, and their agitation is effective. So with the temperance reform that is now sweeping over North Carolina and the -country generally-the agitation is not from selfish motives, but the hope of doing good stimulates the agitators. Those who are working so hard for temnerance reform in this land to-day are the most unselfish people in their fiebragaiD8t the liquor traffic that can be fraud at all. They know that fhere is no reward for them but the resultant good to others. They sacr -X! time and money andlabor diligently that they may lessen the evils .nd lichten the burdens that fall upon those who suffer from the results of the liquor habit. And persons who have not made some arefu observa tion have no real idea what proportion, temperance reform has already as lUssUrring the people of many States, and in no Slate in the nerhaos is the question claiming more attention than in North .Carolina. , "T.. ....riifld if not entirely suppressed. State is doomed 10 w PASSING EVENTS. real reason bas been given that some rude white boys kept troubling the negroes Until their con lessness on the part of railroad employes. The improper placing of a switch, the careless reading things it well says the following : nlenty that is good to be said ,- . Fight in Mid-Ocaan. Popular Mechanics. When tbe British 6hip Afrida, fcrly aeven days out trom Singapore, tied up at her pier at New York a few days ago, Captain Golding and his crew toldi as hair-raising a snake yarn as ever came off the high seas, where live sdakes, as a rule, do not abound. Cap tain Golding is an enthusiastic zoolo- j gist and is on the staff of Director j Hornaday,of the Bronx zoo. Therefoie, when tbe Afrida left Singapore tb? captain bad stowed away in cages here and there, in odd places from poop to 1 galley, one of the finest collections that he bad eyer yet brought over to enrich the zoo ; and on the sailing list was a twenty-four- -foot python. This huee. ophidian was one of the largest the captain had ever seen. On a dark, still night eoon after the j ship left Singapore a terriffic hubbub J broke out among the animals on deck. Captain Golding went to investigate. The python's caga was empty, but there '"'vaa the pytbor winding its sinuous length about tbe starboard companion ladder. Instantly there was pandemonium among officers and crevT, all of whom rushed to quartern of safety. The captain was the first o got his nerves back, and, advancing cautiously, tried to get the bight of a rope around the snake. But tbe py thon was alert, and no matter from what source the captain advanced, he coiled tor a throw at the brave mariner. So the captain retired a .minute in fa- or of the mate. "The mate was the on!y one who had the nerve to stay on deck," said the captain. "He went, to his bunk and got a bull's-eye lantern.. Then I armed myself with a broad axe and we began to skirmish; The lantern sort of blinded the snake. 'In about half an hour we got a crack at him. The axe took him iust n the middle as he bung from the bridge and cut him clean la two. "And then, by gum ! we had two snakes to fight instead of one. They bung on to the bridge and waved and wrigg.'ed madder than the one of them had been. - It took me thirty minutes, watching chances, while the mate flashed the bull's-eye into the piece thahad the head, before I got another wnrok. This time l cut on another piece. They weren't so lively now, and we dodged and backed until I got in a good blow about three feet from tbe head. That did the business, and wbenwe were through with tbe rest of the thing there were twelve pieces of him jying around tbe bridge. 'It Was another half hour before tbe crew came out of their boles. The wouldn't believe at iirt the thing wa- dead. And then we held a nost-mor- tem and had the deck washed down." No Longer Crisp. Baltimore Herald. The vandal hand of progress has been aid upon the crisp currency of tbe country, Its currency qualities will not be af fected ; it will be no harder to get or harder to give, but its crispness will be a thing of the past. This is a more serious matter than tbe loss of an ad jective, it is a loss of personality. Tbe krinkle of a fresh greenback has often served to stiffen the back bone of the despondent and to etiffei yet more .the self-satisfaction of opu- ence. The crispness of the bill has been the source of the feeling of sprightliness of many a man. But now all that is over, and tbe bill of tbe future is to be as limp as most men's credit. Soft, tmister.and silken will be tbe mercerized thing which tbt government is to foist upon tbe public as its I O U's. - Tbe only consolation to be derived from the sad change is that the mqne y can be made quicker. The country bas been treated to all sorts of money, but quick money will prove to be a prime favorite. The aosuranc) is given that what now lakes sixty days tojnake will soon be made in a few days. But alas 1 this process of mousy-making is to be a government monopoly. Tbe road to wealth is not yet to be a cross country cat. However, comfort can be found in the assurance that the new money will not febriuk in the making. What boon to humanity ! Especially the large element of it who are kept in a state of bewilderment at t he diminish ing faculty ol their assets. When von want a Dbyeio that id mild and gentle, easy to take and cer tain to act, always use Chamberlain"? Stomach and Liver Tablets. For sale bv E. T. Whitehead & Uo.rscotiana Neck, and Legvett's drug store, noo good. : . . - THOUSANDS HERALD Catarrhal Dyspepsia and Nervous Prostration Women Than-All Other Diseases I I Systemic catarrh causes nervousness, poor appetite, tired feelings. Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. LETTERS FB09C WOMEN, Miss Anna Prescott's letter. Miss Anna Prescott, in a letter from 16 South Seventh street, Minneapolis, Mirm.', writes: " was completely used up last fall, toy appetite had failed and I felt Weak and tired ail the time. My drug gist advised me to try Peruna and the relief I experienced after taking one bottle was truly wonderfut. u I continued its use for five weeks, and am glad to say that my complete restoration to health was a happy surprise to myself as well as to my friends." Anna Prescott. HEAT OP TEE EARTH, Scientists Trying to 3fafc3 Practical TJs9cfIt. Selected. If we consider tbe amount of energy brought to the surface in the form cf hot water from all the hot springs, we should certainly reach very large fig- ures. and this energy, although not available for operating an engine which tan1 enmn lirmM lilrn ether. n!cohol or ovukiv v. m - " -" - carbonic acidgas, boiling at a temper- j ture considerably below the tempera-. ture of the water in the hot springs. The suggestion for, utilizing the heat below the surface of the earth is a veiy popular one, and has reappeared at every occurrence of interest .n under ground temperatures. It is comparatively easy to compute t,he depth to which it would be neces sary to penetrate in order to find tem peratures that would be suitable for the operations with the ordinary sleam St - At engines; but in seme loca'ines mo depth would be so considerable a3 to appear prohibitory, for the. present at least. Still nothing seems to be im - possible to modern engineering, and perhaps tbe next ten years will make a UUtO 111 vui i.vmuv . j - I - - l 5.. Ik. irrnnnH l.i In Ml IP.ftL nCIl KH ' " L- sim pie a matter as one o,uuu ieei at. me present time. Moreover, we are noi compelled to select such disadvantag eous localities for our enterprise. If, f r example, we choose a place where the remnants of volcanic energy are na.tr th surface, it wauld, undoubted ly, be possible at the present time to put down a bole deep enough to-jeach a temperature of 300 degrees. " The problem, it appe-irs to the writer, is not so much Concerned with the putting down of a hole or holes as with the obtaining of a continued nd euili cient amount of energy from the rocks beneath, because the moment opera tions are commenced, the water or an other liquid is. introduced mio the bot tom of the well the surrounding rocks will be immediately cooled, and must rely upon tbe outlying areas for a sup ply ot heat by conduction. EVERY LADY AND GENTLEMAN Who are troubled' with Pimples or Fa cial Blemishes are requeeted to call -at I their druggist's and get a trial nqtue oi i Haiicik'a .Ltfjnid Sulphur. If used hh directed,, it will anon destroy tne Ma the disease, and make the s-., ,ne ft. --For sale by E. T. OF FAIR PRAISES Pe-ru-n a True Friend to Women, Miss Florence Allan, a beautiful Chi cago girl, writes the following from 75 Walton Place: "As a tonic for a worn out system, Peruna Btaftd s at the head in my esti mation. Its effects ire truly wonderful ixi rejuvenating the entire eystem. I keep it on hand nil the time, and never have that tirod feeling,' aa a few doses cTwnyR msiefs me tnl like a diffewut woman." Plorence Allan. Pcrtms Trill be found to effect an im medi.ito and lasting cure in oil case3 cf systemic catarrh. It acts quickly and beneficiallyon the diseased mnoous mem branes, and with healthy mncoua mem branes the catarrh can no longer exist. Cleaning Up the Farms Col. J. B. Ki Hebrew in Southern l-'arm Magazine of Baltimore lor Augnst. In eyery portion of the &cutb, ex cept in the tobacco districts,' August i Hers the most favorable opportunities fur cleaning up and beautifying tbe firm. Briars, bushes, brambles and noxious weed should be cut at this j period, for, ks vegetable life is at its lowest ebb, the chance of destroying sach growth are mojh inc;e:S3l. It i. a source of reeret. not to Bay huroil i w - - iation, to all weil-wishers o! tne isoutn that so little attention is given " lieautlf.i&z of Southern homes , cultivation of a taste for rural embel lishments is greatly to be desired. The e'.egiQt inprovemeuts of a country place apped to every Jover of the beau iifui and the true, and form one of th most agieaable and piofi table recrea tiorsa that can engage an . Intelligent micd. Such improvements add much t,i the value of an eiate. .Alt boueef should be painted or whitewashed as we'll as the fences. Every one has not good taste, but j every one may, by utilizing nis epcre J moments, increase tne auracwuns ui j his heme and add to its pleasantness and beauty and make it an abode ol 1 o inLBlllittSLlUO 1UU -11 Ui. r.,r hi. expnen hi peuu family and to mould their moral and ( intellectual natures, nothing will pay so largely as a tasteful dwelling, em bosomed in shrubbery, enlivened by ilowers and greenturf, a little wood j,.t near, with fine old shade trees, and a herJ of weil bred cattle or a flock of well bred sheep running thereon to give animation to the scene, thus ex citing a deep interest in the breeding ofdomwtic animals and a genuine love for the duties of the farm. It does not require great wealth to se cure these things, but they give a charm to the borne and , add grat?, beauty and activity, furnishing s much satisfaction and happiness as tbe moat splendid mansion, with its expen sive greenhouses and fl jwer gardens. THE DEATH PENALTY. A little thing sometimes results in death. Thus a mere scratch, insignifi cant cuts or puny boils have paid the death penally. It is wite to have Buck 1 ih'i Arnica Salve eyer handy. It's the the best Salve on eanh and will pre vent fatalitv. when Barns, Sores. Ul cers and Piles threaten. - Only 25c. mi, E. T. Whitehead & Co..djog store. WOMEN FOR PE-RU-NA. Makes Invalids of More Combined. Pernna Makes Ton Feel Like a New IVrgoa Miss Marie Coats, a popular youns Vf&" man of Appletoil, Wis., and President of the Appleton Young Ladis'Club,writes : "When that languid, tired feeling comes over you, and your food no longer tastes good, and small annoyances Irri tate you, Teruna will make you feol like another person inside of a wck. "I have now used it for three seasons, and find it very valuable and ettcacl oK3." Mii Marin Oat. If you do not deri vc prompt nn?l satis factory results from the r.se'of lVna write at once to Dr. J3;ir:r.i;n. ri vinn a full statement of yr.iv c n :o, n:irt J vfh bo pleased to give you lA.i valuable d viOft rati 3. A rl r'- s Jr. Karftrnit, rve.ffcil The Hart:Kiiii S&v.i .'ir!uM, Enbb r Tree Story. Raleigh Post: A little knot of.Confederale veterans gathered about State Auditor Dixon md Mr. A. B. Stronach th9 other day md very naturally began relating thrilling incidents of the civil war. The stories grew more and more mar velous until Mr. Tom Medlin, a farro ar near the Wake-Harnett line, tpld bis story and effectually put all the others out of the business. Major Dixon had started the ball to rolling by relating how he hd to place l . ... , II a guara on ooin eiaee oi a tmau stream, exposed to tte enemy s nre, uecaufc members of his company 'insisted on scefng how many times they could run across the plank spanning the branch without getting phot. "Well, boys," said' one gray-hire;l . listener, "I j'ned the army in May, 1861, and was right by General lx-e at Appomattox when he was sitting on a horse under an apple tree nud handed General Grant his sword." "I tell yoa all wbatT did," said an other. "A whole regiment of vankees was pursuing a few t.f us through a broom straw field. We were trying to get awav but they were getting mighty close. Well, I happened to leel in my ! nockets and found iaat one match. 1 I" " I struck it and set that field afire an i you ought to have eeen that whole regiment turn baci and fly." "There won't none of you all in tbe Mexican war, was there?" inquired Tom Medlin, one of the breathless lis teners. "Well, it you all was't, I was," he continual, "and one-day a squad of Mexican cavalry got after me. I ran as hard as I could but they were gallop- , Jug right on. Presently I ran right 11 n atrainst an India-rubber tree. I never stopped but I just reached up and took.hold of one of tbe branches and kept right on. I reckon I ran a quarter of a mile holding that limb, then I stopped and turned the limb looce. That branch whizzed through the air like a cyclone and it popped every one, of those blooming Mexicans right under the chin and knocked them off their horses in every direct ion." Nobody dared follow Mr. Medlin and that ended the stories. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY . Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab lets. "All druggist refund iie money if it falls to cure. E. W. Grove"s sig nature is ou each box. 2fx..
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