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4. IF YOU ARE A HUSTLER rou win ADVERTISE TOOB Business. th t! i I' J n j i3 U 5 I i 1 d 5 ; i AT STEAM IS TO- laeliiiisry, E. E.HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $i.oo. l'KCPSM.IXa POWER 1 1 VOL. XIX. New Series-Yol. 6, (6-1 8) SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1903. tfO. 48 SEtTL OUE AdVBRTISEMEKT JN HOW Commonweal 1 HE 9 1 l jy? I 0::e dose of Ayer's Cherry Pecioral at bedtime prevents r: nignt coughs of children. Kg croup. No bronchitis. A lie -S3. ,T' i doctor's medicine for all i sfFeciions of the thronr. l-.rnn. ;h cmal tunes, ana lungs I for over 03 years. Sold war !:5F:' Wrs Chirry lY-cfornl in mr 8 fanti.v !'r eijrht jears. Tkereis nothing eq-iii! ;-. it tor (r.:;iis and -Ms. cspeeinllv i'urchil sl irea." Miss. W. ii. Er.mEi:, Shalbr.Ala. 1 IT ' k "fir 8 f? ik B V; S N?e,' the bowels open with on of oyer's Fiils at fcedtfms. Just one. What fou Bat ? Ye" cir. e; whatever and whenever you ike i; yea take Kcir-l, By thss us of this H!?y disordered digestion and diseased ;iorsd to tiittsuth f3d?aswuld k-i-!;cl sra eaten vL 'i;:" viih a posi- zra tr.a c;cyr;:?. And wnat f3 thrs feeds rvr.miiaied and -.3fcr:;-.f!d ir.ts tic '-.lvd cf nut: Imsnt ihs is appropriated fcy s the C!.!y; r. tc tils :ac:. U contains, in ?, ths giA.:-st Known "tenia is crrKrtiss. :Cc-iil cures Indigestion, dy ssspsia and S cirsrders srlsfnj therefrom. Eedcl Digests What Ycc Eat Makes th-? Stomach Sweet. !'.. is cr.:y. Rejjuto 1 .Ov, r.-i -.irj 2,s tima ihs trti! size, v.-! h eel -5 fcr c Q cents. Pi: "arte 4,y i T. O. cy.vrrr &CO., Chicago, IOi rrilTETTEAD i CO. c-.;a T-rautUiCB the htlr. r 7 f Beslore Graf 5 j;5 c.:an.i Color. i.5 U c S !2S Also sc a fi'ckneeg and yt. si i?jj5s;?ii"-x teaJacue. Dei t -IZi Tli n raigia. Hr.R no Iraiii c r . 10c, 25c and 5Cc a Uoitle. PROFESSIONAL. a. G. LIYEFUION, tist. i:- iver Jiew Whithead' Building e iioars from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to v. p. tn , SCOTLAND NECK, N. O. '. -T. P. WIMBESLE1, OrFTCS BRICK HOTEL, SCOTLAND KECK. N. C. STUAP.T K. SMITH rii & SMITH, A TTGJINE VS-A T-LA W. ; )' '.', vor Tyler & Outterbridgs ooiUad Neck, N. 0. - t , Tcr orvices are 'ID L. Vtorney and oTor at Law, AX, N. U. ' im Lands. iTADLISJID IN 1865. CHAS M' WALSH ,- J WORKS, S'camore St., P.eteesbt7C, Va. i'i t. 'y.iis, Tom bs, Camstary Curb I"", do. All v.-ork etrlctly firet cl;t.'w and at Lowest Pric53. T ALSO rCKXISTT IKON ft FEfiOINO, VASES, &c. a i3 ?ns acnt to any address free. IP ntm for them ylezFG give nge of de e '-S3 1 a il limit as to price. I Prepay Frcishton all Work wJiijKira oar Work with thst o oar Ccmpetitor?- Teke Laxative Bromo Gbi33,- pDTTOI'S jEISURE OBSERVATIONS OF Thomas Tixon Jr., author ot "Leopard'a Spots" and "The One Woman," is quoted as sajins that the real danger to thla country lies in the indiffer h? Ssal Dangsr. right at the ballot bos and be punished it he does not. We hae heard of ccrapuleory education but we have never before heard of compulsory vot ing. Perbap3 they would go pretty well together. Then when we compel a citizen to be educated wo can compel him to vote one way or the other. tut - It has been given out that already there have boen chartered in North Carolina this year mnet?en cotton mills with a capital stock of two million r i.-u Pi dollars; fifty-one wood working establishments T. . wr with a capital of three and a half million dollars : electric power undertakings of nearly five and a half million dollars, and other industrial companies to the amount of five million dollars. All these charters represent more than fifteen million dol lars la new corporations lor the State during the present year. Truly there is progress In I?orth Carolina.the contemplation ol which would have fauly astounded our fathers of two or three generations ago. int Every reported experiment in intensive farming point3 to the system as the moat profitable at all. It co?ts no more to cultivate well fertilized crop3 Intsnsiva Farming. duces on the average for Srth Carolina 210 pouadi cf lint cot ton per acra and you gat 4,800 pounds of lint cotton. With the proper ma nure and fertilizers ten acres will produce the same amount of cotton with just half the coat of cultivation. Ii is not hard to see that it pays much better to cultivate tea aero than twenty acres for the same amount o! cotton. t t t t The prevailing high prices for cotton this season is a matter for congrat ulation to the farmers and evory one 13 sincerely glad that they are getting m i . p , euch good rnces for their prodncl. It is a cora- L3t Farmers 1) 3 Careful. , , , . raon thing to hear people say now that the cot ton crop will he greatly increased next year. This being the general feel ing, farmers will soon commence making plans for a larger crop next year. There aia some things in this corneirtion which farmers will do well to be careful about. One thing to be considerai is the question whether or not ihey cau handle a much larger cotton crop than they are already handling. If the crop Is greatly Increased there is a chance that the farmers will lose considerably in thir failure properly to save the Increased product. Then there is the danger of neglecting the home supply crop. Let farmers set it down once and lor all that whenever they fail to raise their supplies at home they go backward. The most prosperous farmers are those who are moot independent at home, regardless ol the price of cotton or the price of corn and meat. It is true that when a man can take the cotton made on one acre cf land ana buy much more corn than the same acre would have made, it looks like it would pay him to make the cotton and buy the corn ; but it will not. If Mr. A makes all cotton under such circumstances and hit. B makes some cotton, his home supplies and some corn extra, the lat ter can sell to the former, and in a transaction of ten years the man who se3! the Corn will corns out much ahead of the man who buys It. Home supplies are the only safety for the farmer, whatever the price of cotton, peanuts or tobacco. Tjis census reports showed that from 1890 to 1900 the Increase in for eign population in Louisiana was about 6 per cent., and effthese foreigners , more than one-third were Italians. Their nam- Italians in the South. fcer faas been incr3aeing 81ace the census was made and it is thought that they are an advantage to Louisana. These Italians sec-rn to have turned to agriculture, and aro replacing negro labor on the plantations. This is a suggestion for a solution of the labor prob lem in th9 South. It has been said many times oyer that the negro is the lest field laborer that can be had In the South ; but it is becoming harder a yd harder to control th!s labor, and it begins to look like farmers will have to make some other shift for labor. The Italian government is said to be not uuwilling for the people there to emigrate, and so if some of thcen immigrants could be turned to Southern fields it would be well, es pecially if they mane as good- laborers as those who have turned to the plantations in Louisiana. A f f er cett'ng forth in substance the foregoing fxcts and suggestions, the Manufacturers' Record concludes as follows: "Fi 2sa education for forty years has had an unfortunate effect upon the ne gro rscs, and has counteracted to the race's ill many of the excellent ies sons h nod by an older generation. In freedom the race, though com manding comparatively small wages, has become an expensive laborer, be cause of lack of opportunity on the part of those who know the race best to train it as it should be trained. For forty years the whites of the South have, in the case of the negroes, been in the position of grown folks com pelled to deal with children without the power to handle them as children should be handled. The result for the child-race is exactly what should be expected for a child In similar plight. The evii can be corrected, and the immigration of some such race as the Italian peems to point the way to the correction. For as soon as it dawns upon the negro that he must work or starve, as soon as he is brought into competition with a laboring class that will work for even smaller wages than bis and prosper, he will either get to work or get out. In the meantime the native whites or foreign whites who have become Americanized will have giren the Son th greater inde pendence of the negro in agriculture, already becoming more and appa rent in the cotton field and in the rice plantations, while it is fair to hope that the next few years may produce a revolution-making picking machine for the cotton field, and thus release a great mass of labor Into other pro ductive channels. To Cure a Cold in Onz Bay ft OUrS PASSING EVENTS. ence of lfa citizens. He thinks that every clU'zan who has the right to vote ought to exercise that than those not fertilized at all. JTake, for instance, twenty acres of land which pro- qa every &C3.25&. L. Q. C.LAMAB. AS SEEN IN THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. Some Gcol Anecdctss. LucianL. Knight in Sunny South. fN ol the most unique figures in v the life of the national capitol for nearly lorty years was L. Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi, and Washington is still fragrant with the recollections of the great southerner. Usually he wore his hair long and it fell in rich clusters bw the top of his collar and sometimes coyered both sides of his face. Without intending to appear odd there was something in his personality which always arrested the Attention even of the most careless observer and no one who glanced at him once could keep from doing so twice. Though his head was large it rested upon his broad shoulders and was not out of proportion with the rest of his body. Ordinarily his manners were reserv ed and self-contained and he impressed one as being wrapped in deep thought Nothing of the strenuous life which he led was even in the remotest degree suggested when his features were in repose, but when his interest was once aroused tne dreamer was straightway lost ia the man of action. With the fiery temper of the Hugue not, he combined the gentleness oi a woman and the courage of a lion. What is known as Southern chivalry has u?yer been more strikingly exem plified in any one than Lamar. To qhote the language of 'another : "In the silken glove cf courtesy he carried the iron grip of honor." While he could arraign Hoar and Blaine and Conkling, he could also eulogize Sumner, and whether engaged in the one task or in the other be was lalways the courteous gentleman of the old school and whatever he said, wheth er in praise or in censure, was doubly effective because of tbe way which he had of saying things. Some interesting anecdotes art told ot Lamar's life in Washington : On being called into the cabinet of President Cleveland he found it neces sary to seccre permanent quarters in the national capital and supposing his salary of $8,000 to be ample for all pur poses he called, upon Mrs. Dahlgren widow of the late Admiral Dahlgren, whohad just completed an elegant house, which she was ready to let. Being ushered into the parlor he soon made his business known. The lady replied the house was for rent and the sum which she expected it to bring Was $7,500 per annum. Mr. Lamar sat perfectly still for sev eral moments with his eyes bent upon the carpet apparently absorbed in pro found meditation. "You are not ill, Mr. Lamar?" final ly inquired the lady with some uneasi ness. "No madam," replied tha secre tary, "I wps only wondering what I should do with the rest of my salary." Mr. Lamar was once the victim of quite an amusing case of mistaken identity. Boarding one of the street cars in Washington he took his seat be side an Intemperate fellow who was abont to be ejected because he had no money to pay his fare. Quick In bis sympathies he was touched with what he considered the pathos of the situ ation and reaching down in his pocket he pulled out a nickel which he gave the conductor. The drunken man gazed stupidly at his benefactor for something like five minutes and then, as if suddenly recognizing an old acquaintance, he said : "How d'ye do, General Butler? I thought I knowed yer. Wuzn't we both ot New Orleans ?"i With these words he put forth his hand which Mr. Lamar took. But th? whole car was now laughing at the joke. Turning to some one who sat near him, Mr. Lamar said : "Yon don't think be take3 me for Ben Butler, do you?" But be was not left in the dark long. Again the fellow spoke out, after scan ning his features somewhat more mi nutely. "Got yer eye fixed since we was at New Orleans, hain't yer?" Perhaps there were very few people who knew that this dreamy man of ge nius was an expert swordsman. Soon after the death of Mr. Lamar a gentleman whose name was withheld from the public at the time narrated this incident to one of the newspaper correspondents. "I am a swordsman of no meam abil- IT KEEPS THE FEET AND DRY. WARM Ask today for Allen's Foot Ease, a powJer. It cures Chilblains, 8wollen, Sweating, Bora, Aching, Damp feet, A BROOKLYN Pe-ru-na Promptly ived Her am w ; r A WHAT PEOP1E SAY Abont Po-ra-na as a Remedy for All Diseases of Winter, Coughs, Colds and Cntarrli. That Peruna cures catarrh, coughs, colds, ia -well known to medical profession and the people generally. It is undoubtedly the most popular remedy for this class cf diseases letters : Pe-ru-na Cares a Cold at the Outset. Miss E. M. Isaacs, Armstrong, Pa., Vice-President of the fortnightly Club, writes : " No on who has tried the comforts Peruna brings would ever be without it. I used to dread the slightest cold, as its consequences were so lengthy and eo unpleasant, and the catarrhal condition which invariably followed so hard to get rid of, but since I have known of the blessed relief secured through the use of Peruna, I am free from all this unpleas antness and suffering. ity myself, and when I was employed at the capitol several years ago I had a pair of foils which I brought across the ocean with me. They afforded no end of fun. Conkling and Ingalls both tried them. "One day I was in the room of the committee on public lands when Mr. Lamar came in. He had just recover ed from a spell of sickness and was rather weak. He eyed me for a mo ment and then, coming forward, said : " 'Used to use the foil myself, but I have almost forgotten how by this time.' "Putting one of the blades into his hands I saw that he handled it as if be knew something about it and I en deavored to engage him in a round. No,' he replied, 'I'm too weak now. Wait until later.' "About a month later he came in again and by this time he had lully recovered bis strength. He said that he was now ready to try, and I got the foils and adjusted the buttons, chuck ling over the prospect. But I soon changed my mind. "He proved to be master of the situ ation. I resorted to all the tricks I knew, but every thrust was neatly par ried. At last I found myself on the defensive. He hit me ten times a sec ond and I might as well have bad a straw to defend myself with. I was blue for a week afterwards." While in Washington on one occa sion Robert G. Ingersoll, the noted in fidel, called upon Mr. Lamar at the interior department and in the course of the conversation made many bright remarks which Mr. Lamar is eaid to have enjoyed very much. But finally some flippant remark was made In ridicule of orthodox re ligion. Impatiently Mr. Lamar jumped to his feet, ana, throwing his long hair back from his forehead, said : "Ingersoll, 1 hope to see the day when you will come to Washington and preach the gospel. With your magnificent abilities and eplendid ora tory you could work a reyival such as the world has seldom seen. I hope, Bob, to see the day when this will come to pass ; ard you could not en gage in any grander or nobler work." YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE- TakiDg when you take Grove' Taste im Chili Tonic because tne formula is plainly printed on every boitlesbow- disagreeable effects. For sale by E. T. sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co., Scot loe that it la amply Iron and Quinine Whitehead & Co.,ScotIand Neck, and land Neck, and Leggett's Drag Store, tm tt Irgt'a Pro Ffr". Tvtg,M. ' Hobgood. - , BELLE Life. .mw..s toy i iings. wuuHjwn throw oft tony relief in existence. Eead the following ; " A few doses never fails to cure mc of a cold and I keep well through its use." Mips E. M. Isaacs. Hon. W. J. Purman, ex-member of Congress from Florida, writes from 1428 Q street, N. W., Washington, D. C, as follows : "From representations to me and my own experience I feel justified in recommending your Peruna to any and ail persons suffering with catarrh, ner'ousness or stomach troubles. I regard it as a great tonic and remedy Ask your Druggist for a free Peruna Almanac for 1904. Wonderful llemory cf Frank Stanton. New York San. To the Editor of The Sun Sir: Having seen recently a number of ac counts of remarkab'e feats of memory, I desire to give an instance along simi lar lines, and 1 do not believe the re cords hold its counterpart. Frank L. Stanton, the versatile poet qf The At lanta Constitution, loves nothing so much as poetry, whether written by himself or others. Consequently be Is one of the closest students of the art of the muses living today. He has read and knows about all that has ever been written in verse. He literally knows Shakespeare "by heart," and can repeat entire pages right off the reel, so to spsak. Byron is a particular favorite of his, and Ihave held a book on him while he repeated every word of "Childe Harold" without the omission of a, syl lable. One 'night in my epartmenls in Atlanta, Stanton was a guest along with a number of friends, and all of us were discuesing poetry. Stanton had Interpreted a number of his own beau tiful poems, when he was asked the question as to how he had acquired so wonderful a memory. "I cannot say, he replied, "it all comes perfectly natural, and I never try to account for it. One thing I can do," he added, "which I have never setn anyone else do." He then proceeded to tell us that be bad only to read "A" poem once over aloud to be able to repeat it verbatim. Af ier this he asked to be shown a poem of any length he bad never before seen, and upon this being djne he made the following wonderful statement : "I will read this poem aloud, and I never before saw it ; and while I am doing this Mr. Logan will read another poem or a piece of prose aloud. This will make t wo of us readingaJorid in the same room at the same time. When both are finished, I will repeat bolh poems separately." And this be did ! If any one has a feat to equal this in the memory line I would like to bear of it. Chaeles Thomas Logan. J New York, November 20. i When vnu want a measnnt tmreative . try chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They are eaBy to take and produce no nausea, griping or other THREATENED WITH oorcsusyiFTioiMT Miss Alice O'Neil, 312 Adams street, Brooklyn, N. Y.. writes: J ' " I cannot say too much In favor of Pcrtina. About aJ, fsr?goJ was completely worn out, bad a serious JtLH? a M WS" which seemed to be in danger of ti my system naa been In a stronger n wouia nave oeen mucn easier to this cold, but I could not seem to tret until I took Peruna, and I must aay tams ii vw iuo wane tnoroughiy. within a week I could see a wonderful improvement, and I took Peruna four weeks and am in perfect ALICE O'NEIL. for such afflictions. I, and others to whom I recommended It, are using it now with beneficial results."- W. J. Purman. If you do not derive prompt and satis fflfifniu vrxsnlts frnin flirt 1mA of Pprtin!. write at once to Dr. Hartruan, giving a full statement of your ease, and ho will" bo pleased to give you his valuable ad vice gratis. Address Dr. ITartman, President of The Ilartmaa Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. THE LONE STAR STATE. , Down in Texas at Yoakum, is a big dry goods firm of which Mr. J. M. Hal ler is the head. Mr. Haller on one of his trips East to buy goods said to n friend who was with him In the palace car, "Hre take one of these Little Early Risers upon retiring snd you will be up early in the morning feeling good." For the "dark brown" taste, headache and that logy feeling De Wilts Little Early Risers are the best pills to use. Sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co. This world is but a fleeting show and ail the best seats are taken. FIG FIT WILL BE BITTER. Those who persist in closing their ears against the continual recommendation of Dr. King's New Discovery for Con sumption, will have a long and bitter fight with their trouble, if not ended earlier by fatal termination. Read what T. R. Beall, of Beall, Miss., has to eay : ,:L3st fall my wife had every sym tom of consumption. She took Dr. King's New Discovery after everything e!se had failed. Improvement came at once and four bottles entirely cured her. Guaranteed by E. T. Whitehead & Co.. Druggist. Price 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles free. As a rule, popular subscriptions art in the unpopular class. BILIOUS COLIC PREVENTED Take a dose of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy aa soon as ibe liret indication of the dis ease appears and a threatened attack may be warded off. Hundreds of peo ple use the remedy in this way vilh perfect success. For sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co., Scotland Neck, and Leggett's Drug Store, Hobgood. The cup that cheers is a noisy piece of crockery. MOTHER GRAY'S SWEET POW DERS FOR CHILDREN. Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children's Homo in New York. Cure Feverishneas, Bad Ptom ach, Teething Disorders, move and reg ulate the bowels and destroy worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. They never fail. At all druggists, 25c. Sample FREE. Addiess Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. All is not plump that ft. (tens. BE QUICK. Not a minute should be lost when a child shows symptoms of croup. Cham berlain's Cough Remedy given as soon ' as the child becomes hoarse, or even j after the croupy cough appears, will j prevent the attack. It never fails, and is pleasant and safe to take. For
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