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ADVBBTISINCr BUSINESS W HAT STEAM IS TO Machinery, if YOU AhE AHbMLth tov Witt . ADVERTISE rooB Business. Commonw: rr tt yi rirTTTT H M E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $i.oe. ai G'iHvr Propelling Powei VOL. XIX. New Series-Vol. 6. (6-1 8) SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1903 NO. 47 EAL 11 A.mrs We know vhat all good doc tors think of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Ask your own doc tor and find cut. He will tell Pectoral you how it quiets the tickling throat, heals the inflamed lungs, and controls the hardest of coughs. Ayer's Cherry Peetoral Is well known In onr family We think it is the-best medicine in the worid for concfrs and colds." - n.A 1 1 a x jste kson, Fetaluma, Cal. 25c.-, 50C.. 91.00. j c TKRfO All druBKlst. n iJjZj Bard Coughs One of Ayer's Pills -at bedtime wifl hasten recovery. Gently laxative. Do Yoti Enjoy What You Eat ? Yn can eat whatever and whenever yon like If youake 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 ana 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 digestant or combination of digestants that will digest all classes of food. In addition to this fact, it contains, in assimilative form, the greatest known tonic and reconstructive properties. Kodol cures indigestion, dyspepsia and aS disorders arising therefrom. Kodol Digests What You Eat Makes the Stomach Sweet. Bottles only. Regular size, $ 1 .00. holding 2 times the trial size, which sells for SO cents. Prepared by E. O. DeWITT CO.. Ohicago. lib E. T. WHITEHEAD & CO. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Clf-?e and beautifies the bjor. l'rc.i ;cn a huuiiant growth. .Nevr..- ?ails to Ee3tore Gray Hni. to its Youthful Color. Cures cn'p d'seaea & hair jailing. Zn;,r-ndgl.fOat Druggists CAPUD.RJE O 3 Alao sea sickness and 4 fef w ' Travelers Nausea, diz- sa e Ann. zinees, nervous HEADACHES effect on bnua cr hen . W 25c and 50c a bottle. (.LlQUll.) s , PK0F&SI0AL. pit. A. C. LIVEKMON, Dentist. O.-Tics-Over New Wbithead Building 0;ace hours from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to ciucc, p. m. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. ?R. J. P. WIMBERLEi, OFFICE BitICK HOTEL, SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. R. H. SMITH. STUART H. SMITH JJM1TH & SMITH, A TT0RNE YS-A T-LA W. Siaten Bld'g. over Tyler & Outterbridge Scotland Neck, N. C. A. DUNN, ATTORNE Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices wherever his services are eauired. TDWARD L. TRAVIJs, u Attorney and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. 'Money Loaned on farm Lands. ESTABLISHED IN 1865. CHAS- M WALSH lim Marble and Granite WORKS, JJSycamore St., Petersburg, Va. M laments, Tombs, Cemetery Curb ing, fec. All work strictly first class and at Lowest Prices. i also furnish iron FENCING, VASES, &G. Dosigns sent to any addrass free. In writing for thaui iiJfif.ee gi6 age of de entsl and limit as to price. I Prepay Freiachton all Work Cvamro our Work with that o onr Ccmpetito fr uv. tf!nre a Cold in One fly 73U ) Tote Laxative Bromo auinfaers. . . at9MMt.a. Thb grsslnre. Severn MZaon poxes sota m pw - pDITOI'S jEISURE jOUIS OBSERVATIONS OF Commissioner of Agriculture S. L. Patterson recently wrote the postmas ter general protesting against the sending of boll weeyils through the mails. ... He has been assured through the postal authorl- No More Mailing Boll . . Weevils, 8 P8a' aw flSalnst mailing insects and reptiles will be rigidly enforced. So we may rest about the probable spread of the boll weevil through the mails. Mr. Patterson is to be commended for hU action in protesting against ths mail ing of the weevil to this State. tut A special meeting of the Board of Trustees of Trinity College has been called for Tuesday, December 1st. President J. H. Soutbgate has stated Sr. Bassett to Resign. tic Quarterly regarding the race question. It has been given out also that Dr. Bassett has already written his resignation. Whether Dr. Bassett in tended saying just what he did say and whether he meant iust what the people thought he meant, is a matter with him; but there is no doubt about the fact that his utterances have hurt Trinity College, and many people outside of the Methodist denomination think it would be better for the college if Dr. Bassett would resign and labor elsewhere. tin Mrs. Carrie Nation is thought by many people to be crazy. She ap peared in Washington some days ago and went to the White House to see Carrie Nation m Wash- President Kit. Upon being told that she . could not see him she became so violent that she mgton. had to be put out of the grounds. Soon she bobbed up in one of the Senate galleries, and astounded that august body by shrieking at them that they were traitors, and the like. She was taken out and carried to police headquarters and fined $25 for disorderly conduct. She paid the fine and went on her way rejoicing or rather making prepara tions to rail at the next assembly she can find that does not adopt her method of suppressing the liqnor trafiia. Doubtless her first steps were ta ken in the hope of doing some good, but she seems to have out run her use fulness, if she ever had any. xttt Whether the following catechism is entirely orthodox throughout or not, it is worth etudying a little : "What has brought this wonderful pros Farming Did. It. Europe? Farming. What has brought interest down so low that every legitimate enterprise can work on borrowed capital and get rich? Farming. What of all professions would vou recommend to the rising generation? Farming. W hat fosters commerce and stimulates manufacturers? Farming. What hns caused the present boom in railroad building? Farming. What has dispersed our army of tramps? Farming. What business, if wisely conducted, will return something more than a Hying every year? Farm ing. What business is conducive to long life ; and of all others least con nected with crime, vice, etc.? Farming. What business, either directly or indirectly, is 'the power behind the throne' of all industries under the sun? Farming." t t t i The proper protection of our forests seems not to have been well impress ed on the minds of the people generally. With the multiplication of rail roads and the from engines, Destructive Forest Fires est at almost every turn. Long time ago the careful land owner raked around his fences and then raked off a strip of woods some hundred yards or more from the fence and burned off that strip of woods to protect hi3 fences from the fires that might sweep in from the thickets. Sj the railroads ought to keep their rignt of way burned off t i keep the sparks that fly from the en gines from setting fire to adjacent wools. With the scarcity of timber and wood, every possible precaution ought to be taken against the destruction of forest growth ; and if there Is not a law compelling railroads to keep their right of way burned off there ought to be. Our forests must be pro tected. The Commonwealth has suggested before the creation of a forest commission in each county whose duty it should be to report on all forest fires and compel those who are responsible to make reparation for such loss. t t t t The public has read so much about the treaty with Panama that it is almost impossible to get at the real gist of what it is. Well, boiled down as well as we United States What the Treaty Is. for a territory ten miles wide acro&s the isthmus of the canal, and grants an annual payment of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars beginning nine years after the ratifications of the treaty. There are several other considerations, such as the guarantee by the United States of the independ ence of Panama, and in turn Panama in substance agrees that the United States may do what it pleases in Panama. That is to say,, the United States is to haye the privilege of putting in eewer systems for the cities of Panama and Colon, and the Republic of Panama proposes that the requests of the United States in such things shall be granted. Protection in the canal en terprise is summedjup in the following : "The Republic of Panama agrees if It should become necessary at any time to employ armed forces to pro tect the canal or the ships using the same, or the railways and auxiliary works to provide the necessary forces for such purposes, and that if it can not effectively handle the situation, the Panama government will allow the United States to employ whatever force may be necessary for that sole purpose, the said force to be withdrawn when the necessity for its presence has ceased ; that when the circumstances demand the United States may send forces to Ihe isthmus, with or without the advice or consent of the Panama government ; tnat no change either in the government or laws and treaties of the Republic of Panama shall, without the consent of the United States, affect in any way the provisions of this treaty." PASSING EVENTS. that the meeting is called to consider matters re lating to Dr. Bassett's article in the South Atlan perity which our country now enjoys? Farming. What has brought our government back from almost dally fires caused by eparLs one sees destruction o! forest inter can eee it, it is about this : The pays Panama ten millions of dollars cr every tax. 25c. i i x NOTHING AND SOMETHING. It's nothing to me," the! beauty said, i With a careless toss of her pretty head, "The man is weak if he can't refrain From the cup you say is fraught with pain." It was something to her in after years When her eyes were drenched with burning tears, And she watched in lonely grief and dread, And startled to hear a staggering tread "It's nothing to me," the mother said, "I have no fears my boy will tread The downward paui ot sin and shame, And crush my heart and darken my name." It was something to her whon her only son From the path of life was early won, And madly cast In the flowing bowl A ruined body and a shipwrecked soul. "It's nothing to me," the merchant said, As over the ledger he bent his head ; "I'm busy today with tare and tret, And have no time to fume and fret. It was something to him when over the wire A message came from a funeral pyre A drunken conductor had wrecked a train And bis wife and children were among the slain. "It's nothing to me," the young man cried ; In his eyes was a flash of scorn and pride "I heed not the dreadful things you tell, I can rule myself, I know full well." Twas something to him when In pris on be lay, The yictim of drink life ebbing away, As he thought of his wretched child and wife; And the mournful wreck of his wasted life. "It's nothing to me," the voter said, "The party's loss is my greatest dread." Then he gave his vote for the liquor trade, Though hearts were crushed and drunkards made. It was something to. him in after H'e, When his daughter "became a drunk ard's wife, And her hungry children cried for bread, And trembled to hear their father'? tread. Is it nothing to us to idly sleep While the cohorts of death their vigil keep. Alluring the young and thoughtless in, And grind in our midst a grist of sin? It is something, yes, all, for us to etand And clasp by faith our Savior's hand To learn to labor, live and fight On the side of God and changelem right. Money in Farming. Rich Square Times. , There is money in farming at pres ent prices of lartn products, perhaps better returns than most any other line of work at this time. As an in stance of what can be done we mention the case of W. Ray Newsome, a colored man" living near Rich Square. Some eight or ten years ago he bought a farm on the Eagle town road near Rich Square on time and had to get supplies on time. H3 had no capital except a wife and sev eral small children, yet during the last ten years he has paid every cent due on his farm, bought another farm and paid for it, owns new wagon and bug gy and good horses, in fact has his farm well equipped and is now putting up a new residence and has the money on hand to pay for it. He owns real estate worth $2,000. It is needless to say his credit is good. AH this has been made in & period of great depress ion, part of the time cotton being down to five cents and less. Of course be worked hard to accomplish all this, but no harder than others work who are in cities and on railroads. There are many examples ot success ful farming in this section. Our farm ers live better, have better health and perhaps enioy life better than any other class of workers. They are truly independent except those who persist in remaining in the old ruts. s CHAMBERLAIN'h COUGH REM EDY IS PLEASANT TO TAKE. ""The finest quality of granulated loaf sugar is used 10 the manufacture of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and the roots used in its preparation, give it a flavor similar to maple syrup, mak ing it quite pleasant to take. Mr. W. L. Roderick, of Poolesville, Md., in speaking of this remedy says : "I have nsed Chamberlains Cough Kerned y with my children tor several years and can truthfully say it is the best pre paration of the kind I know of. The children like to take it and it has no injurious after effect. For sale bv E. T. Whitehead A Co., Scotland Neck, and Leggett's Pru&Store, Hobgood. UNCLE m PMTING SHOP. Finest plant in the woeld. It Fays Four Million Dollars Wages .1 Tear. in Washington Dispatch to New York Sun. Uncle Sam's big new printing nhoj U about In apple pie order. It. is uu doubted ly the fiuest establishment ! its kind in the world. The remoyal of the shop from thr p'd, ramshackle building erected long before the civil war by private individ uals who used to do the government printing by contract, has been goitif on for the past month or six weeks The old structure was an overcrowded and unsatisfactory place,and the wonder 19 how the government ever turned out within its walls the necessary public documents. Many of the difficultier were overcome by having a part oi the force quartered in rented buiidiugt in various parts of the city. The agitation fur a new printing of fice started in earnest fifteen years ago. Repeated warnings were given by ex perts tbr.t the building was unsafe With the heavy machinery and type and the enormous amount of pp.per and other material that had to te kept con stantly in stock,it is not remarkable t-h&t .it times, vibrations of the building wefe felt which almost created a paciic among the thousand of employes. When Ford's Theatre, in Tenth street, which was occupied by the R: -cord and Pension Bureau of the War De partment, collapsed some years ago and killed a score or more of clerks, the prediction was made that, if Congresp did not soon provide a modern aud more spacious home for the printing ofri?e, there would be another disastc: of the same kind. In those days, ' Washington led es tate syndicates or combinations seemed to have the power to hold up Congress. But Congress has learned a thing vr two ; and instead of submitting to be ing pestered by real estate eharkF,when a aite for a pr.blis building u wanted, it now orders condemnation proceed ings. Thai finally had to be done in securing the site for the printing office. Much delay was occasioned because the late General William Mahone, of Virginia, and his friends made a stub born fight to sell the goverment a rquare which they owned. Mahone had lost much ot his fortune ; and Senator?, especially, felt eorry for hios because at one time, while a member of the Senate, he enabled the Repub licans to maincain a majority. Bui the House would not go into the scheme. It was not until 1899 that the fir.-t appropriation for the new printing of fice was authorized by Congress. The limit of cost was then fixed at $2,000,- 0C0. A year later it was increased to $2, 429,000. It will be strange if furth er appropriations are not called for at the approaching session of Congress to decorate the interior, to purchase addi tional machinery and to provide furn iture and fixtures. Solidity rather than showy archi tecture was aimed at in the construct ion of the big building. Constructed mainly of brick, it is pronounced by officials to be about as nearly fireproof as it is possible to make it. It is a U-shaped building, and the window frames are ot cast iron. Hard woods have bean used throughout. The walls are uncommonly thick, and there is nothing of an inflammable na ture dividing the various rooms, under the flooring or in the roof. The building ha3 a fronting c' 403 feet on G street and 175 feet on North Capitol street. It is seven storks high, with basement and attic, and there are spacious damp proof vaults for storage purposes under the G street and North Capitol street sidewalks. Aside from the large appropriations for building and repairs, the sum set aside lor operating the printing office proper has been increasing steadily for several years at the rate of from f 400, 000 to $500,000 each year. The con stantly increasing demands upon the gigantic shop are responsible for this. In round numbers it costs something like $6,235,000 a year to operate the plant. It is many more times expen sive than similar government plants of Great Britain, Germany, Russia and other leading European countries Our Pnblie Printer, considering the onerous duties devolving upon him, his manifold responsibilities in having to employ and look after an army ot between 4,000 and 5,000 people, Is a very poorly paid official, His salary and allowances are bat little in emcees IT KEEPS THE FEET AND DRY. WARM Ask today for Allen's Foot Ease, a powder. It cures Chilblains, Swollen. Sweating, (tore, Aching, Damp hvt. I all druggist and shoe stores, 25 WORTH A ucatarrhv t sl -sejj n h 1 MRS. COL. E. J. GBKSHAM, Treas urer Daughters of the Confederacy, and PresidentHerndca Village Improve ment Society, writes the following letter from ilerndon, Fsirfas county, Va. J Herndon, Va. The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O. : Gentlemen "I cannot speak too high ly of the value of Peruna. I believe that I ewe my Jife to its wonderful merits. I suffered with catarrh of the head and lungs in its worst form, until Ask your t iiist for a free of .f 5 ,000 a year. Hundreds oi men at the fceal uf private eiJrprises of this sort and not nearly so important set more money than he does, and certainly earn the salary. In wages alone Public Printer Falm jr paid out during the Jast fiscal year nora thuu 94,000,000. In his estimate for the c-ring licsal year, euding June ;10, 1901, the Secretary ot the Treasury vil! ;isk agrees to vote $4,500,000 'r wea in the printing office. In round numbers the paper bills a count to $750,030; material and sup. plies other than pape? cost last yetr $680,000, and the bills for lithograph log and engraving t.mour.ted to $210, 000. Unclfe Sim's book-bindery is as com plete as money and skill can make it Much cchttly machinery is bought fur this branch as the government is year ly turning out finer publication. The map printing is also an expensive and artistic feature of the work. For some of the so-called little arti cles the following amounts are paid out m a year : Thread, $12,000 ; twine, $3,000 ; flour, for paste, $00; soap, $700 ; sponges, $890. In a single year the enormous num ber of 1,G45,519 documents, including those received and distributed, were handled by toe office Tl.. I .1 4. I. ... j uo u u'.'i uuiuua liavc uau n hi n grip on the printing office for jean-, dieted that if some plan were not epeed and so great is the power ot the Ty pe- ily adopted to shorten the speeches and grapbeial Union especially, that the ( old method of setting type by ha d still prevails. All attempts made it Congress to install type-setting ma chines have fallen. The first signal defeat met here by these organizations was through the stand taken recently by 1 resident Roosevelt in declaring the printing of fice an "open shop" and ordering Book-binder Miller, restored to his place, in tpite of the protests of the Central L-.bor Union of Washington, the International Bookbinders' Union, the International Typographical Un ion and others. About fifteen years ago steam presses were ordered for the Bureau of En graving and Printing in place ot the band presses so long in uee. The labor unione kicked up sush a rumpus over tbislnnovation that the late Congress man John J. O'Niell.of St. Louis, who was then chairman of the House com m'ttee on labor, did not rest until the oi 1 -fashioned bard presses were restor- Cbamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets are becoming a favorite tor stomach troubles and constipation. For sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co., Scotland Neck, and Leggett's Drug Hobgool. KIM'S RANSOM. TowPemnei Saves 1ives the doetor3 fairly pave mo up, and I de spaired of ever getting veil a-rain. M I noticed your advert isemen t and the" splendid testimonials given by peoplo who had been cured by rerun a, and de termined to try a bottlo. I felt but lit ia better, but used a seeond and a third bottle and kept on fmprovinp; lovly. "It took six bottles to cure tne, hut they were worth a king's ransom in me. I tqlk Peruna to oil my friends and am a true be f Sever lit lis worth." --'Mrs. Col. B. J. Qresbam. Thousands of women owe their live to Peruna. Tens of thousands owe their health to Peruna. Hundreds of thou sands are praising Peruna in every ptato in the Union. We have on file a grea multitude of letters, with written per mission for use in public print, which, can never be used for '.vant of space, Addrees The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O., fr a booli written, espe cially for women, Instructively l!k;pl ra ted, entitled 'IIealth an-l Deauty." Sen free to women. IVrun:i Alm;uin" for l'.)04. ed. Tboeo opposed to the use of steam presses said they turned out ir. ferior work, but the olficialj stoutly de nied the assertion. Employes of the government print Ing office doing time work receive good wages, the records showing that exactly 1,886 men in a year earned between $1,000 and $2,000 each. Fully two thirds of this number averne 1 out $1,400. Many of the l.HS'i receive! between $1,500 and $2,000. The most costly publication turutd out by the printing oflije is the agri cultural report. It cost $220,000 for the last issue, and 2,300 employes were engaged on it at different times, nil do ing piece work. For several years before bin expira tion as Speaker, the Hon. Thomas Brackett Reed used fairly to rave about the great amount of printing ordered by Congress, and he did his utmost to have expenses reduced, but iu vaiu. He Was always a fierce opponent -f giving members leave to print in The Record speeches that were not actually delivered. And he never wandered over to tha Senate chamber and beard the venerable and loquacious Mr. Mor gan of Alabama, delivering one of those ten-bour discourses that he did not exclaim : "What a waste cf hu man time !" Just belore bis death Mr. Reed pre- v uo w.v.v ,j abolish the print privilege, The Con gressional Record would soon become too voluminous for the ayerage library. A RUNAWAY BICYCLE, Terminated with an ugly cut on the leg of J. B. Orner, Franklin Grove, III. It developed a stubborn ulcer unyield ing to doctors and remedies for four years. Then Bucblcn's Arnica Salve cured. It's just as good for Burn?, Scalds, Skin Eruptions and Piles. 25c, at E. T. Whitehead & Co.'s drug store. There are animals purporting to be whales a-swim in the ocean of Fame of whom Posterity will easily pack a dozen at a time into a sardine box. New Orleans Times-Democrat. A REMARKABLE CASE. One of the most remarkable cases of a cold, deep-seated on the lungs, caus ing pneumonia, is that of Mrs. Ger trude E. Fenuer, Marion, lad., who was entirely cored by the u.e of oao Minute Cjugh Cure. Sne says : "The coughing and straining so weakened me that I ran down in weight from 148 to 92 pounds. I tried a number of remedies to no avail until I used One Minute Cough Cure. Four bottles of this wonderful remedy cured me en tirely of the cough, strengthened my lungs and restored me to mv norm it weight, health and strength." Sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co.
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