North Carolina Newspapers

IF YOU ARE A HUSTLER roo witt ADVEKTI8K TOO Business. HI E. B. HILL.IARD, Editor and Proprietor. "EXCELSIOR- 18 OUR MOTTO. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE fi.oo. -o VOL. XIX. Sew Series Vol. 6. (6-1 8) SCOTLAND NECK, N. 04 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1903. NO. 35 itst oub Advkktisehkmt III N.w 11 i vt Gee at Propelling Power. .ADVERTISING 1ST BUSINESS WHAT STEAM IS TO- Machinery, Commonwealth, 4 0 E Half-Sick Wmmmm twmiin nii'i 1 ium " I first used Ayer's Sarsaparilla in the fall or 1848. Since then I have taken it every spring r.s a blood - purifying and nerver strengthening medicine." S. T. Jones, Wichita, Kans. If you feel run down, are easily tired, if your nerves are weak and your blood is thin, then begin to take the good old stand ard family medicine, Aver s Sarsaparilla. It's a regular nerve lifter, a perfect blood builder. si.mm. ah Ask your doctor what bs think of Aystti SaTsapoxilla, Ho know, all shoot this grand old family modleia. FoUow hi adrtooukd we will DO aausnoo . J. c. irn Co., Lowsll. 3 Do Yot Enjoy What Yoti Yon can eat whatever and whenever yen 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 aS disorders arising therefrom. Kodol Digests what You Eat Makes tue stoma Bottles only. Regular size. $ 1 .00. holding 2K the trial size, which sells for SO cents. Prepared by CO. DeWITT OO., Chicago. 0 E. T. WHITEHEAD & CO. PARKEIt'S HAIR BALSAM - Cleanse end bawtifiei the bait: Promotea a bnmriant mnmtik. Sever Sails to Hestoro Gray Cmca scalp diur.m hair falling. INDIGESTION n TT T I? Timmediately by J U Ji J2J 1) the use of Hicks' 10c. 25c. 50c ; Capudine at drug stores PROFESSIONAL. gll. A.C. LIVERMON, Dentist. OFFicE-Over New Whitbead Building Office hoars from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to o'clock, p. m. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. R. J. P. WIMBERLEi, OFFICE BRICK HOTEL. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. Uf A.DUNN, III ATTORNE Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices wherever his services are earn red. R. II. SMITH. STUABT H. SMITH gMlTH & SMITH, 1 TTORNEYS-A T-L A W. Staten Bld'g. over Tyler & Outterbridge Scotland Neck, N. C. DWARD L. TRAVISs, Attorney and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. iW Money Loaned on Farm Lands. -U'DE KITCHIS. A. P. KITCHIN. KITCHIN & KITCHIN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. . IV i ;tice wherever services are required Office: Futrell Building. Scotland Neck, N. C." ESTABLISHED IN 1865 CMS' M' WALSH .tern Marble sil tesit! -WORKS, Sycamore St., Pbtkbsbubo, Va, M laments, Tombs, Cemetery Curb i;ig, &c. All work strictly first class and at Lowest Prices. ; f a i so cneniRR I FENCINS. VMB.'&C.- 5e-rigna sent to any address free io writing for thetu 1il:ve IB ngw w e ml ani It mit as to price. - I Prepay FrtB.ghtott all tcri DITOI'S jEISURE jOUIS. OBSERVATIONS OF Ax incident at the Hamlet hotel more than a week ago has been pretty well noticed by the press of the country at large. Booker Washington, the Tuskegee Institute negro of Alabama, who has aHt considerable ability, went to the Hamlet hotel JSquainy I Jojf ,1 There were twenty-seven other negroes with him. Tbey were on a special train which was late and had telegraphed ahead for breakfast at Hamlet. When they arrived at Hamlet the dining-room was in readiness for them and they walked in and ate at the tables used for white guests and in the same dining-room. It turned out that there were white passengers on the. train, one of them being United States Senator Bacon, of Georgia, but all reiused to go into a side room prepared for them while Booker Washington and his companions oc cupied the main dining-room.' Since the incident, the statement has gone out from Baltimore that three hundred traveling men have declared that they will never again eat at that hotel. Some days ago three negroes asked lunch at a white lunch counter in Raleigh, and because they were refused the white folks' seats at white folks' counter, tbey refused to. take lunch. Do they want social equality ? If they do they are doomed to disappointment foiever in the South. Booker Washington and President Roosevelt haye set the negro race back twenty-five years as regards the privileges to be accorded them by the white race. The Commonwalth has once before recently referred to the rough and rowdy conduct ot some of the State guard, and we endorse the following expression by the Charlotte Observer : "It is Howdy Soldiers. oM o tne gg,, manifestations of human na ture that men, who in their individual. characters, are genteel, kindly and humane will,of tentimes,welded into a mass,develbp such savage natures.Tbe Second Regiment of the North Carolina State Guard recently held its en campment at Morehead City, and returning, some of the troops, during the stop at Newborn, set upon a negro boy. and chased him until he en countered some obstruction and broke a leg, and fell. At the encamp ment of the Third Regiment at Greensboro men were tossed in blankets until it was thought some of them would die. At the encampment of the First Regiment at Biltmore negroes were chased off the grounds and one old negro was roughly handled and another was threatened with being, thrown into the river ; and on the trip down the Western North Carolina railroad one of the guardsmen fired from si car window near Statesville and killed the cow of a tenant farmer, inmctftig, no doubt, a berious loss upon its owner. Suoh conduct as that recited is unworthy ot soldiers and is a reproach to the State Guard. No man, let us believe, who indulged in it. bat would denounce it if perpetrated by others, and by the same token let us hope that by this time they are ashamed of their own bad behavior." tut It is a common thing to hear persons speak of "professional jurors." They mean, of course, those who hang about a courthouse during every court waiting for a chance to be oalled into the Professional Jurors. jmy Eyery man who lovea jaBtioe and wishes to see the law obeyed,and criminals punished and who hopes to see le gal differences settled on a high plane of thinking and acting, would be glad to see the professional juror laid on the shelf for good and always. To be sure, the fact that a man served on a jury last year does not of itself unfithim to serve on a jury again this year ; but to serve on a jury for eyery court year in and year out causes one to regard almost all the court proceedings as a matter of course a sort of hum-drum business and he becomes careless of hie duty. "A new broom sweeps clean" applies as well to a juror as to anything else. And then some people say it makes them tired to see a man hanging around a court house looking lor a jury job. Then, too, it smacks of a leisure that judges in our courts have come to look upon with disfavor. Whenever a man now-a-days asks a judge in the court house to excuse him from jury service because he is too busy to spare the time, the judge generally replies that he wants busy men on the jury, and therefore that plea does not excuse him. Again we say that a professional juror is In general disfavor with the best citizens of his coun ty, and his decisions can never have the effect that follows the decision of jurors who would rather be at home. t t t t There are all sorts of machines now, but the following description of a machine that stands at headquarters of the United States weather bureau . at Washington, taken from Pearson's Magazine Cooling Machine. ifl interatjng . "There is nothing complicated and awe-inspiring about the machine, as it Is token in at a glance by the spectator. Indeed, the observer at first involuntarily experiences a feeling of disappointment at not seeing something more wonderful-looking and imposing than a plain round cylinder connected with the outside air by a pipe of generous diameter and .having a similar pipe extending from be neath. This is probably due to the surprise that immediately makes it self felt upon stepping into a room where the machine is stationed. To pass suddenly from an atmosphere registering ninety degrees in the shade to a room registering in ifs Warmest corner but sixty-five degrees and through an ordinary door at that is bound to cause some wonderment. The-machine is charged once a day, and Prof. Moore, the inventor, says that'the cost of cooling a certain area in excessively hot weather will be but a trifle in excess of the cost of beating the same space by a furnace or astovein the extremely cold weather. Within. a short time the, gravity cooler will be in possession ot the public, and probably not until then will the grater number of its nses.be discovered, JU present it is easy to pic ture a numbef of them. They will be made in sizes suitable for cooling rooms at home ; fever patients tossing on the couches in the hospitals will be cooled by them ; coldtorage pantries will be built In every new house and equipped with gravity coolers; hotels, In spite of . not being situated near the sea, can tunitfb coolness to their gnesti ; rattway tin and ' - . ..x ni Afinrehea they all coma in the list. - cool theatres, cookiaci PASSING EVENTS. " : " ,. .. -. - Trees Along Roads. Indiana Sfate Sentinel.C The state forestry department of New York is making a special effort to induce the planting of trees along country roads and in villages, it urges that these are desirable both for their products and for shade to the road. There is no good ground for the objection made in certain localities to placing trees along a public road, be cause their shade would tend to make it wet and muddy. If such conditions exist, the fault is In the road and not in the trees j there are Some very mud dy highways along which nothing' has been planted. Although a row of trees may retard somewhat, ' evaporation of moisture at the surface of the road bed, at the same time they drain its foundation by the rapid absorption of water through theirs roots. When the roadbed is properly constructed, drained and ditched the trees will do no ti&i-m ; on the contrary, they will furnish a grateful shade to the traveler and prevent dust without creating mud. i As to the trees most! desirable, Mr. Fox, the State forester," declares that nothing has been found that will equal the American elm and hard maple for wide roads and double rows. The elttiR should be at least sevenlg feet apart, a they often attain a spread of 100 ieet, and the trees should nn be allowed to crowd or interfere with each-other un til they assume their foil size and nat ural shape. Transplanted or second growth hard maples along a country road attain a large size, and beautiful appearance, which require a fifty foot space. Other species oaks, bass wood, white ash, locust, willow, horse chest nut, black cherry, button-ball, beach and the two soft maples can be used with good results to obtirn variety. It is also suggested that by planting the scarlet oak, red maple and pepperidge the brilliancy of the autumn coloring may be enhanced by the bright reds displayed by the leaves of these species. The birches, and especially the yellow birch, are not desirable' ior streets or roadside use as tbeyjpme a different form when grown fn the open instead of the forest, the branches growing lower down and the trunk failing to reach its usual height, although it may never attain a large diameter. Nut bearing trees the chestnut, butter nut and the hickories are also avail able for highway planting. Tbey are large, handsome trees, and although they may suffer from the depredations of boys in quest of nuts, they have pe culiarities of limbs which are pleasing In addition to the reasons for plant ing trees along roads there are addi tional ones tor planting them in towns and villages, where there are so many more dbodIb to eet the benefit of the shade. The temperature is much low er, and as the pavements are not ex posed to the glare o! the sun, there is less reflected beat. Don't Eire Drunkards. Every wise young man ought to have some thought on the future. No one knows what may be the tempta tion to fall a victim to strong drink and once fallen he has slim chance for doing much in the world. It is com ing to pass that great concerns in the business world will not employ men who drink. No railroad company will keep in its employ a man who habitually drinks. Marshall Field & Co., of Chicago, is one of the largest dry goods firncs in the world. The following letter to Dr. Berry, editor of the Epworth Herald, indicates the position of that firm with reference to the employment of those who drink intoxicants : Dear Dr. Berry: Answering your letter of January 3, we will say that we will not, to our knowledge, place young man who drinks in our business and, even though a man should apply for a position whose ability and other allround Qualifications wonld seem to fit him for the position, ii we knew or discovered that he was a drinking man we should decline to consider nls ap plication. Any man in our employ who acquires the habit of drink, even though moderately, is to a certain ex tent marked down in our estimation and unless we can remove from him this serious fault, and show him his error, we feel compelled to do without his service. Yonrs respectfully, Mabshaix Field & Co. YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE Takine when you take Grove's Taste laas Chill Tonio because tne formula lanlainlv printed on every bottle show Ing that it Is simply Iron and Quinine in tasteless form, sso uure, no .ray LIQUOR FIGHT IH IRTHjJABOIJlli. THE WATTS LAW PAVED THE "WAY 70S AN ORGANIZED ' WAS ON THE SALOON. The Voice. It is natural that the eyes of the na tion are now focussed upon North Carolina. Her people have been delv ing into nation-inspiring and nation- making history during the last fen days. They have tasted to the dregs the fruits of temporising with the li quor traffic, and are now ready for something else. The way, paved by the enactment of the Watts law of the ast Legislature, is now clear, and Old Nortb State citizenship has promptly sprung into the gap. From a disorganized mass of imper- ect, ineffective, inoperative, scattered, untrained, unheraled and purpoeeles elements there has been evolved a compact, united, organized, captained and comparisoned force, enlisted tor war against ' the saloon. They have given notice to the liquor element, which has so long dominated North Carolina polities, that its tenure of un restricted; untrained) unheraled and purposed and pre-empted authority ie passing and that a reign of righteouE nets is at hand. In Raleigh, whose people fifteen years ago took on the habiliments of prohibition with a half-hearted deter mination to give it short shift, and haye been since buffeted about between desire for righteousness on one side and a thirst for riotousness on the oth er, there has sprung into life a definite, well planned, and splendidly developed movement that must have for its ulti mate end complete prohibition. For years North Carolina has been at the mercy of a conflicting combina tion of contrary excise enactments Her people have tasted nearly every thing in the category, from high, to middling and low license; from the imitations of dispensary semi-respect ability to the unlimited boose of boot- eggery affluence ; from the mildly ex hilarating essence of moonshine fizz to the seductive ebullition of classic high balls ; from the cup that cheers in qua si-sober ambush to the one that cheers not at all in the eyes of wide open beery opulence. Although, strange to say, more than two-thirds of the State is now under prohibition of the liquor traffic, the aws in other sections have been so di versified and so conflicting that en- brcement in one town almost means nullifies tatlon In the next. Que could drink in Raleigh any time from 5 a. m. to 12 p. m., but let him go a few miles to Durham, and be found in a saloon after 8 p. m., and he would socn find himself In jail. Again, this man might hie himself to Waynesyille and be able to buy liquor by the gal lon, but not by the drink, and he might land in Fayetteville and find neither saloon, jail nor police. In a five hours' ride the tourist would find more different kinds of excise laws than a Philadelphia lawyer ever dreamed of. From this sea of appalling inconsist ency the State has made harbor amid tempestuous breakers, brave hearts have been tested to the uttermost, and cool beads have found occupation ior consummate wisdom. The ship ot Stnta i now firmlv anchored to the buoy ot reform, with the decks cleared for effective work. There is a fixity of purpose and a unanimity of action about it all that nnmnalfl attention, and already the common foe is planning a counter- movement. 'But with the magnificent armament ot the past week before us with the State's leading educators, ar- tinnns. merchants, manufacturers, min- iatfira and lavmen un in armor, it is fair to assume that North Carolina is not now on dress parade, but is out to win. EAT ALL YOU WANT. Persons troubled with indigestion or dvsrjenaia can eat all they want it tney will take Kodol uyspepaia unre. xms remedy prepares the stomach for the mcention. retention, digestion ana as- aimliAtion ot all the wholesome food that mav be eaten, and enables tne ai gestlve organs to transform the same into the kind of blood that gives health wl -trenrth. Sold bv E. r. White head & Co. If someTrteees of-art work were not antique, tbey would be ugly. DEWTTT IS THE NAME. "DV hen you go to buy Witch Hazel Salve tor the name DEW ITT is on avav box. The pure, unadulterated witah - TTazel ia used in making Dk Tbitt'a Wifah Haxe! Salve, wbieh is the best salve for cuts, burns, bruises, boils, eczema, and piles. The popular ity of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, due to its many cores, ban caused numer ous worthless counterfeits to be placed on the market. The genuine bears the name of E, C. DeWitt uo., una HOW "BILL ABP" GOT HIS NAttE. Took it From a Wake County Han, News and Observer. When the war between the States closed with victory for Grant's cohorts, Ma j. Charles H. Smith returned to his home in Cartersville, Ga., to find his property gone, bis law practice destroy ed, and b6 hopes shattered. Like many more returning Confederate sol aiers, he decided to put the beet loot foremost and make the best ol the sit uation. Oue day, immediately alter reading tba President's proclamation to all Confederates to disperse, he took up bis pen and wrote a reply in hu morous vein, describing how he had gone into a deserted field and endeavor ed to disperse himself. Through ' the vein of homely humor tnere ran a splendid satire of the wholly and un necessary and absurd proclamation. That afternoon his fellow lawyers, who bad no clients, and a few friends were gathered, as was their wont, about bis office to talk about "the good old times before the war" and kindred topics. On the outskirts of the company of congenial spirits there sat an unedu cated countryman, a native of Wake county, North Carolina, who had been a member of Mai r Smith's company, Before the war he had been the best . , , , . . . . . . fighter in his county and bad whipped Averv hraeeart who came within hi. dent Confederate and a true soldier, I and was still an unreconstructed rebel. To that little group of friend, Major smuureHu tuo ivVtj mix, uu I -.. - J 1 U I.. I lit.. I to the President's proclamation, lti nanirht thftir fanev and his brother lawvers urzed him to print it. After B-" - I ' . , up as to the name that should be s'gn- ed to it, the consensus of opinion being u... ik. nnnruiAraA armv could prudently sign it. ine aiscus- sion closed without auy agreement as mt . to the name to be signed to the article. As the company dispersed Bill Arp udtaH nntnMutiir Smith and said : Maior. I wish you would sign my name to that article, for them's my ntin?' lie did so. Tne article made a tit, Was Copied into the New vt n.r.M mil want thm ronnda of the nress throughout the whole coun-iman i ui a - trv and the name of Bill Arp became fdmniia. Maioi Smith continued to write, at first telling of the fisticuff encounters of Bill Arp with the bullies, who contested his prowess, and then writing sketches of famous local char- acters he had known. Gradually be xave more time to writing and with- drew from the practice of law. His Articles brouebt him in a good living, be printed a book which added to bis nnme. and this was further increased hv lecture tours which not only sup- plemented his earnings bnt gave him lopics for his letters. For twenty years i;.tv Mviwknt tiia nub. ne uao wiutcu uhw .wi ly letters to the Atlanta Constitution, but until his health began to fail he spent a portion of each year lecturing or reading extracts from bis book. He iiafl neacefullv and serenely, full of years and full of honors, leloved by hosts of people who have been helped and cheered bv his weekly installments . of philosophy and quint humor; Maior Smith was an old-fashionw J . cil 1-1 miam artiin. Ml ill. oouuiwu . college, but no book learning couu: tuke awav the love of homely pursuiU. it- nA n Aicr tn niant. tn keen close . xx. g a - Am. to nature, n... - light in growing things, animate na nanimate, and his letters acounaea .irh "fnlkaav" accounts of the things w. f.miK.r m.vwv real home WBb ..-. . ... it. i i mine and flowers, was neighborly and loved to talk about the things that have a common interest for all mankindjroung and old. The secret of the popularity of his weekly letter waa that it was like a letter from a good old fatber.who had learned to be a philosopher, and who made the trials of life easier by a knmnr that cheered and helped. He was never a wit. He was a pbiloso- i-ihnr who essayed no pedantic teach- . . , ,Miri-r into right thinking ing, but led men by homely stories of every-day things. What a pleasing picture he made of evervtbine connected witn tne nome. lie lovea ou uumw, , oiiaka mm - Bi.i. .; K .mnntna affaAtlMn ana ne lr- radiated these common and holy loves. Bill Arp never wrote a line oisaept.- cism or doubt. He believed in the old-tashioned religion. He never preached but when you read bia letters you felt that you were hearing tbe ad POTENT PILL PLEASURE. The dIHs-that are potent in their action and pleasant in effect are De- Witt's Little Early Risers. W. 8. roll- pot of Albany, Ga., says : "During a bilious attack I took one. Small as it was it did me more good than calomel, bine-mass or any otner rills ever took and at the same time it ef - footed me pleasantry. .uivut Miiy isaie oy " unonu v , --"--Risersare certainly an ideal pill." Bold land Neck, and Lrggett's drug store, NERVES GAVE WAY PE-RU-NA CURED. MraX. Schneider, 2109 Thifty-venth Place, Chicago, ILL. writes s ' "After tmklag several nmedM without result. I began la Jaaumry, 1902, to take your valuable remedy. Peruna. M waa a complete wrecm. Had oaloltatloa ot the heart, cold bauds aid feet, female weakness, no appetite, trembling, sinking ieetlng oeartv all the time, you saia i warn tufferlng with systemic catarrh, and I iha Bict ot time. I followed your directions carefully and can say to-day that I am well again. I cannot thank wenougntormycure. I will always If vtmr debtor. I have already recom menueu reruna to my meuum mm iukM mntt uir mil nrl M. J wtaH thm aii Muttering women would try It i testify this according to th4 - , toW. mitsville. N. Yh writes as follows: Hjfor three months I suffered witn ftain in the back and in the region of th Moneys, ana auu, phb S.j. . ., , .-.. in the abaomen, ana otner sympwins oi M But after taking two bottles of Pern ha I am entirely well, better than I evct wM."-Mrs. iannv iviavaaaiscner. nriiu m.ja. vjwa, va s-v especially toT womcn by Dr. S. B Hartman. President Ilaxtman Baaitar I ium, Columbus, Ohio. I monitions of a father r mother, lie I was a Christian man ol the best type. I The old-lashioued woman.naa n mm I an ardent brau1 n llo honored w- man and his wriiins H"e.l hrr up. I Ha believed she was on a tlan ultove I " - - and he had no nyavathy with those whom be thought would pull her down on the level of man by giving her the ballot and the like. The South never had a truer soh. He never believed it was wrong. He never repented of bis course. He was proud OI nis uonieueraie iwu u among bis last efforts was urging the preparation of a history of the Georgia regiments. The death of this "folasey" pnlioeo. pber, venerable sage, quaint numonsi, devoted Southerner, Onristian patri- arch and unselfish patriot will be sore- ly regretted by hunorea oi inouaauu- I ni man and women in sll portion of - the Republic. No man m the Souin had so many friends and no man k manv readers, ne was a nuwo iuu we shall not see bis use again. DYSENTERY CURED WITHOUT THE AID OF A DOCTOR. "T am inai. nn ti-nin a hard snell of I M. mm ji.-w - fl fdwntery My Mr. T. A. Pinner, a well known merchant, of Drummona, ienn. -i iw ihm nmu 1 1.,! t rihamharlain'a Hnlic. Cholera I wnJ . I -nd Diarrhoea Remedy and was cured Jthcot haviug a doctor. I consider I u the beat cholera medicine in the I world." There is no need ol employ I Ine a doctor when this remedy is ued, - prescribe a better medlcine for bowel complaint in any , either for children or adults. It I never fails aud it pleasant to take. F. r sale by E.T. Whitehead fc Co., Seot- . , , . . T ... .tnr i tana aeon, mu "kk" " "' Hobgood. Practice makes perfect ; your troubl s I grow with each additional time you rt in therr. FOR OVLR SIXTY YEARS Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup ban been used tor sixty years by millions of .vthM tnr their children wnlle teem ing, with perfect success.- It soothes the child, softens the gums, alias all nain. cures wind colic, and is tbe best I tremedy for Diarrhoea, It will relieve ""L iui. .nff.Mr fmmedUiAlv. ftoId b Druazists in ever part of the IUO LFVrvra, aawwav wm.w- - . -r - I WOrld. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure ana sbk mm. Winslow'a no other - ss i some people aiwaya iuuk ui miuv, I . i . whAther a funeral or a wed- din BOY CURED OF COLIC AFTER PHY8ICIAN'S TREATMENT HAD FAILED. Mv boy when four years old was ta ken with colic and cramps in his stom ach. I sent for the doctor and he tn- jected morphine, but tne cnu a srpt getting worse. I then gave him ball a teaapooniui ol unamneuaiu s uouc, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and in halt an hour he was sleeping and (soon recovered. i. a, wilkws, oneii l bake, wis wr. wnina w wwa-ar-p- 1 er for tbe Sbell Lake Lumber Co. For toii by r. Whitehead. Co. b E.T. WhiUbead & Co. r - ittobsuod, C)n?ira ow titers -r'itrt