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ADVaBTISIUO V- ' J H S S o VJIAT STEAM IS TO Machinery, CJSSlfc 'Ti ) J'T.LtNG Power- IF YOU ARE A HUSTLER rouwux ADVERTI8E TOOK Business. ONWEAJLTH S. E. MILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $x.oo. VOL. XIX. lew Seiies-Yol. 6. (6-1 8) SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1903. NO. 49 Seitl forp Advertisement in now COMM 9 t -a- -1 bionchids, i I""- t c rt? .-ft take any- y 3 choral. Ask youi si cv. n aociOi" u ifi.a is not so. 1 Ks uses It, He understands 1 1 why it soothes end heals. f :t "J ''f- ".ttfr.rii"3 "PK' f-r trcek. Then I 3 J took Aycr-3 -herry Petton.l and only one 5 ;1 "'re .1 5V Him d-. t - ,,. H J. C. ATER CO., j for Coug!is9CoI Vol' v:U hasten recovery by tak ing no of Ayer's PHis at bedtime. Do You Enjoy What You Eat? You can eat whatever and whenever yen like if you take Kodol. By tho usq ot 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 tlo one into a double-bow-knot are eaten without even a "rumbling" and with a posi tive pleasure and enjoyment. And what Is mere these foods are assimilated and transformed into the kind cf 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. Xcdol cures indigestion, dyspepsia and aS disorders arising therefrom. Kodol Digests What Yen Eat fVfakes the Stomach Sweat. Eot.?ss only. Regular size. 1 .00. holding 2 time the trial size, -which seiis for 50 cents, f'firad by E- O. DaWITT & CO., Chicago, lib E. T. WHITEHEAD Sc CO. ca the hai". j -- l r Pl".i? to ? esters OrayS --"wi l-ri- to jr5 Youthful Cuior. 8 0-:.i ..-r.'n .ii";- & hair laliini. I 523 23 i sShts tad ; inin, ii;z- .1 - .HJtti&, it.?.;?- 1 hl.& tr. : . . '..i'. c'-vi S'tiilding f-c.t -'; tu . 'cloek ; 2 to fill. J, P. WI MB SSL-Kit, 0FFIC5 BTIICK HOTEL, SCOTLAND jnECK, W. C. k. h. s:.rrrrr. stuaf.x ii. sjiith qMiTtl & SMITH, TTOJINE YS- A T-LA W. S:itea B'i'g.over Tyler & Outterbridge Scotland Neck, N. C. 113 A, DUNN, fi A TT 0 RN E Y-A T-L A W. Scotland Ieck, N. O. Practices wherever his services ar i'iiD L. TXiAVIb, 13 1a ittorney and Coiiaselor at Law, To ie.y Loanfd on tar in Lands. ESTABLISHED IN 1SS5. CHAS M WAijSH I hm Ma d M .'1 works, neamrre St., Petkissxjcrg, Va. ' ! 'fUiorirs, Tomb.-s, Cs-rnatery Curb ", All .i-rk strictly first- e ts- i.i at Lorost Pric33. c-eat to any aadr-s free. In - : ?-;r thcia i3 agoof de f-1 I :-. -il hosU a? to prlee-. I Ih-z.Kir FreixUtoa al? Work r-,:-;-) ?;:r iV-irA witti that O our i'nmpefftor?- - dsl f lEISURE DITO'S OBSERVATIONS OF L Mips Mat?y Estes, ot Caldwell county, collects taxe3 and gives receipts. Her father, who was shariu cf the county, died, acd the young lady has Tim m ii beei collecting taxes since his death. The News Lady Taz Collector. J , , and Observer says that State Treasurer Lacy thinks the young lady quite enterprising and gives it as the first caee in the State in which a woman has collected taxes. tilt Is vextiox marches on with the tide of tfme. One of the latest is an alarm clock to alarm deaf mutes, by William E. Shaw, an electrical worker Alarm Clcck for Ssaf Mutes. and at the same time the pillow is greatly disturbed by an electric shock. It is far beyond the stretch of the brightest imagination what the first quarter of the twentieth century will reveal through inventions. tut President Roosevelt dined Booker Washington in the White House. A negro clerk in the Census office named Furguson, feeling no doubt the .. . influence - of the President's action towards Tne Innnanca Spreading. , , . .. . , . , Booser, made bold to write a letter to a liidy clerkja one of the departments, proposing to present her with a gold chain and a brooch. The matter was at once laid before the proper authorities and the negro was at once suspended. Perhaps he had read about Dr. Bas sett's article which said that tho negro will yet be equal with the white man. God made a distinction between the rac33 which no man can blot out. tut It has become a common thiEg for persons who commit crimes to plead insanity as the cause. Two notable cases of the kind have bsen be ?wo Significant San-tsnc53. murdered his wife in Kinston. The plea oi insanity was set up in each cas?. Dr. Juy was convicted cf murder m the second degree and sentenced to thirty years m the peaitentiary. Boyette was acquitted of the charge of murder but having set up the plea of insanity the judge ordered that he be coiiilned with the criminally insane in thepeni'entiary. These sentences were entirely correct and ought to be a detriment to persons who would commit crimes m a wildness of passion cr in the frenzy of drink and then set up a -j ea of insa.-ity in ordsr to escape justice. It was remarkable to what extent Dr. Jay's wife exerted herself in his behalf. She did not want him banged, r-eicher did she want him turned loose. t t t t SintviXG on a jury in our courts is a serious and important duty, whether ih& proceedings are oi a criminal or civil nature. A juror isrequued to hear the evidence uf all the witnesses la a case, when " au'"-i perhaps half of them swear to one statement Dii 7 ' ami the other half swear to a directly opposite statement. Fix m all the evidence the jury is required to make up a ver dict. To a man of conscientious scruples concerning all his acts, it is no easy matt er to make up a verdict from a mass of conflicting statements. Bat in most eases, the jury a task is increased by having to carry in their minds the argument of counsel on both sides of the case. Counsel on one side argues that the witnesses on his side have given tho evidence in favor of which the verdict ought to be given ; and counsel on the other side ar gues likewise in favor of the witnesses oa his side of the case. To arrive at a correct conclusion under such circumstances is no easy task. The truth i?, court proceedings are a serious business, and a solemn responsibility rests upon all concerned in them. t t t t Aside from being a very foolish thing in the students at Trinity College to hang Editor Josephus Daniels in effigy because of his utterances concern Th?,t ESig? Easinsss at men, they propose to Trinity. been written against Dr. Bassett's yiows thoy ought to have produced some sort of mechanism that would have represented the entire editorial frater nity of the State, inclcding the religions press. The News and Observer has been sustained in its position against Dr. Bassett's article in the Atlan tic Quarterly by an endorsement of almost the entire press of the State. It would have been unlike the patriotic newspaper men of the State to pass unnoticed such utterances as Dr. Bassett's ; ana while the News and Obser ver gave the first publication oi Dr. Bassett's article and printed the first strictures against him, if by some unseen or mysterious force, that paper bad bean annihilated before it printed a word, the press of North Carolina would have condemned Dr. Bassett in unmeasured terms. t t t t When' cotton went to twelve cents and higher last week, the whole eoun- wns in a hr3at.Ii of excitement. try JO stones in Cotton Futures. The pres3 of the State told exciting stories of the fortunes that h3i?d. v "re made in a cay. l rom me uuanuiiu jicio uuB """ j"- that" city realized a round profit of four hundred thousand dollars iu one d, v. As was wisely suggested, what will be the result ot such rapid ac i lit'ons? It may be that on another day Charlotte or some other l-.ah Carolina town will los3 as much or more than four hundred thous ' 1 do'lars It is the general opinion of most conservative men, business,. L Vweii las others, that dealing in cotton futures Is dangerou3lapart 'ronVthe question as to whether or not there is any moral wrong m it. A .headed business man related to us bow at one time he was engag- cd In "future" " and in the see-saw game oi giu s ntPnother he lost all bis comfortable living and had to start at the less -round again. lie is again prouu, Cure a Cold in One Day jiouis PASSING EVENTS. of Brockline, Mass. The machine is so arranged that at the moment it is desired the person shall awake, a bright electric light is Hashed in the face fore the courts iu North Carolina recently Dr. Jay who murdered his three children with a hammer in Buncombe county, and Boyette who ing Dr. Bassett's definition of the South's great didn't half start about it riht. If they express their disapproval of what had Those who deal in contracts in cotton, generally known as "cotton futures," were more excited than tho farmers and others who had an amount of actual, real cotton on nrt. fonnh "futures." Cures Grip in Two Days. oa every box. 25c Training the Horse. F. W. Ware, in Michigan Farmer. It is a miracle, not that horses occa sionally turn sulky and rear or run away, but that most of them are so well behaved under their uncomforta ble accoutrements. Now that the "full" bridle the double bitted is in such general use, it behooves every one who rides to Make a careful study of the effects of the bits ; to ascertain by experiment how a horse goes most pleasantly ; to purchase larger and easi er bits, and to Inspect the inside of their horses' mouths and consider those wonderfully constructed, delicate and sensitive membi c ? upon which those instruments must rest. As in the case ot the saddle horse, so with the heavy harness horse ; we do not use ordinary care that his comfort is assured before we ask or expect ser vice. We jam a huge Liverpool or "elbow" bit between his teeth, and be tore ne oas more tnan licked it over, proceed to convey to him a series of most confusing signals, which ha has neither time nor preliminary instruct ion enough to understand. In his confusion he finally makes a leap or plunge, and, not allowing for the act ion of the bit, or the fact that the dri ver's weight will almost break his jaw bone, receiyes a terrific jab on the sen sitive membrane and a bruise which either grows more and more deepseat ed until some bone sloughs away, or, continually palnf ul,renders him frantic each time ha is harnessed. Nor does the mischief end here, because he finds that if he pulls hard enough, that in fernal chain around his jaw, and that double fisted Indian who is drlying him, form a combination which will quickly destroy all sensation. Of the two evils he chooses the lesser and another confirmed puller is educated. Mouth and manners are interdepend ent, and no horse which has a bad mouth can have good manners. Heavy bands make bad mouths, and so far as equestriarism gcej no man can have good hands who has not a strong and secure seat ;while he may posress a very firm seat and the very worst of hands. The interpretation f what constitutes "good hands" Is generally Jwrong, and half the people who pride themselves upon such possessions will be found to be actually riding and driving their horses "behind the bit" i. e., they do not make their animals go up to and face it,"but allow the "give and take" process to be all "give." There is more to "hands" than tho mere manipula tion. There is th9 intuitive percept ion of what a horse is about to do, and the instant frustration and correction of any outbreak In just the proper de gree, which Is so much a matter of In eiinct that it is automatic. Therefore, it may be said, that, be he ever so. as siduous In practice, no man can ever acquire good hands, who is not thoroughly sympathetic and has not that indefinable "horse sense" so necefr sary to successful equine manipulation. It is this quality which enables some men to get on with even the most de termined roguesand pullers. No spec ial appliances for them, hut just the exercise of the gifts of sympathetic in telligence which nature has granted them. Doubling the Value of Manure. R. M. Winans, in X(ew England Homestead. After an almost continuous experi ence with a manure spreader for over eight years, I feel justified in saying that it will pay any farmer having 150 to 200 loads of manure per year to buy a spreader. When used to top dress growing crops or prepared fields be fore planting, I hve found that the decidedly better mechanical condition in which the machine places the ma nure on the ground increases the pro ducing value of the material by fully 100 per cent, by rendering every arti cle more immediately available as plant food, acd giving a perfectly even distribution over every inch of surface. Therelore, it the grower is enabled to get twice tho fertilizing value from his manure by the use of the spreader, the increase on even one hundred loads would pay a satisfactory dividend on the investment. When you want a pleasant purgative try Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They are easy to take and produce no nausea, griping or other disagreeable effects. For sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co., Scotland Neck, and Leggett'e Drug Store, Hobgood. "I have something exceeding rare in the way of books." "Thanks. When it comes to a book, I prefer one that is well done." Harper's Bazar. MOTHER GRAY'S SWEET POW DERS FOR CHILDREN. Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children's Home in New : York, Cure Feverish ness, Bad Stom ach, Teething Disorders, move and reg ulate the bowels and destroy worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. They never fail. At all druggists, 25o. Sample FREE. Addiess Allen S. Olmsted, Le iRoy,N.Y. GOOD ROADS f t A Thing Greatly Needed CLAY ON SAND SUCCESSFULLY TRIED. JN a letter to the Johnston Monitor, Judge W. F. Eve, of Augusta. Ga., gives some interesting Information re garding the construction, cost and wear of "good roads" made by putting clay on sand, or eand on clay, as the character ot the roadbed requires. He reports that he has been claying the sand roads of Richmond county, Ga., for twenty, years, with result of obtaining "very pleasant hard roads that last five years without rebuild ing." The rule is to put down eix inches of clay, with two inches ol eand on top of it, and it is better to put on the sand when the clay is wet. When the right protections are used, "a crust is formed, which sheds the water, and the road stays in good condition." The roadbed should, of cours9, be first graded properly, and raised in the middle so as to shed water to the drains. "In dry weather the clay-sand road is ideal," which cannot be said oi a sandy road. The cost of the con struction is in proportion to the dis tance the clay has to be hauled. There are seveuty-five miles of such roads in Richmond county. It is equally effi cient to sand the clay roads. Before 1880, Judge Eve says finally, "many stretches for several miles along our roads were uncultivated, now they are in a high state of cultivation, and land values have handsomely increased." Our correspondent at St. Matthew's, says the Charleston News and Courier, reports one instance in which such work has been extended t this part of the State with highly satisfactory re sults. Three miles of the road was "a very heavy road, with sand knee deep," but by the proper admixture of clay has been made hard and turnpiked, and will last indefinitely. It la now "a thing ot beauty and a joy forever." M. D. Keller, one of the road captains, of Orangeburg county, worked another mile leading out of St. Matthew's in the same way. "Without any budget" or special fund for the purpose, by hands employed on regular road duty, P. J. Tate has also done some gocd work. AH of which goes to show that both oar desp sand and deep clay roads can be greatly improved, with a little in telligently directed work, and at a trifling cost. The wonder is that any county or community in the State will tolerate such roads for a day in such conditions. A BOSTON VIEW. The Stales, counties and towns are spending large sums of money In build ing good roads in certain sections, not only lor the better accommodation of the traveling public and the better transportation of the products of those sections to market, but to increase the value of the farms by which they run by such improvememts. In nearly all cases these roads are built upon a modification of the Mac Adam or the Telford principle, con-. eisting of a foundation of large stones, then smaller stones and a coating of crushed stone when such material is available. When such work is once properly done these roads can be kept in good condition with a very small an nual expense. It is estimated that on agood gravel road properly made one horse will easily haul as much as four would upon an earth road or one im properly made, while on the well made stone road he can ag-iin double his capacity or draw four times as much as over the poor road. The preliminary steps are the same in all cases,but to secure a good,smootb and solid foundation of even grade,and well drained. The last is of great im portance, as, If water is allowed to soak through it, below or from above, and Is not carried away, the best foundation will soon give way. The draining would improve many of our common earth roads, which, being made soft by water underneath, become almost im passible quagmires'at certain seasons of the year, or. are badly washed by heavy rains at other?, when there are not drains or gutters to carry away the surface water. When finished the road needs to be made bard and smooth by the use of a heavy roller. This is done at seyeral different times during the construction of the stone roads. Boston Budget. THE LONE STAR STATE. Down in Texas at Yoakum, is a big dry goods firm of which Mr. J. M. Hal Ier is the head. Mr. Haller on one of his trips East to buy goods said to a friend who was with him in the palace car, "Hre take one of these Little Early Risers upon retiring and you will be up early in the morning feeling good." For the "dark brown" taste, headache and that logy feeling De Witts Little Early Risers are the best pills to use. Sold by E. T. Whitehead &Co . . - . fc PROMIHEUT MEMBER OF I. 0. 0. F. Fhreatened With Brighfs Disease --Pe-ru-na Restored Him to Health. r O. FRED IINDSTR0M, PAST O. Fred Lindstrom, Past Grand Master Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Past Chancellor Twin City Lodge, No. 63, Knights of Pythias, also Past Chief Patri arch,ltidgely Encampment,No.22,writes from 1923 University Ave, St. Paul, Minn. "Peruna has my hearty endorsement. There is no medicine I know of which can compare with it. I contracted a severe cold several years ago, which from neglect developed into urinary trouble, and threatened Bright's disease. As one of my friend3 was cured of Bright's disease through tho use of Pe run I thought I would try it also, and used it faithfully for three and ono-half months, when iny health was perfect once more. I have never had any trouble since, and therefore think it its but just Ask your Druggist for fi free A ByaV University. Youth's Companion. "Where the loafer wastes Lis Ufa r.rd the bovs grow up to vulgar end urelcs mediocrity;" here is a vivid r.nl un fortunately a true picture oi tnar.y country villages. The remark was made by Mr. Georg3 Kobley Howe, a man who lives in a country village the town of Norway, Maine but not that kind of village, bsciuse Mr. Howe and his associate, Mr. George Novas, have iound a way to lift it up and transform it. Their work in this little Maine town ha3 already attracted the attention of educators all over the United States They have taken the country boys as raw material, and created therefrom a scientific university, in which all the sciences which can hav3 a local inter est and foundation are learned by th6 j'oung pupils. Attendance is volun tary, tuition is free. The boys themselves, as they grow older, become the instructors of their younger companions, and all alike go, not to books, but direct to nature. Thej' have their camp kit blanket, hatchet, knapsack and 6uch other things as make thorn independent in the woods and either by themselves or with their older advisers they tramp the surrounding country and study the plants, animals, insscts and minerals. Not only do they form collections, but they claesify them, accurately and scientifically, ench boy working in the department which be has chosen for himself. From the surrounding hills they haye taken mineralogical speci mens for which natural history muse ums have offered large prices, and from neighboring streams baye gather ed yaluable pearls. The most important thing of all is the mental and moral training that they get. The intelligent study of na ture implies constant association with absolute truth and the comradeship of beauty. Under these influences the "tough" boy and the incipient loaler clarify themselves. The dregs of their nature eettle, the life becomes purer and better. FIGHT WILL BE BITTER. Thoee 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. Ii. Beall, of Beall, Miss., has to say : "Last fall my wife had every sym tom of consumption. She took Dr. King's New Discovery after everything else had failed. Improvement came at once and four bottles entirely cured her. Guaranteed by E. T. Whitehead & Co., Druggist. Price 50c and $1.00. Xrtai bottles free. 43RAND RASTER I. O. O. P. to give it unlimited praise." O. 3?red Lindstrom. Catarrhal inflammation cf tho mucous" lining of tho kidneys, also called "Bright' disease," maybe cither acuta or chronic. The aculo form produces symptoms of ftuch prominence that the serious nature of tho dhst-aso ia at ones suspected, but the chronic variety may come on so gradually and Insidiously that ita prcscneo Is not nunpccted until alter it has fastened itsolf thoroughly upon its victim. At the appearanco of the first eymp torn Peruna should be taken. This rem edy strikes at once at tho very root cl the disease. A book on catarrh sent free by Th Peruna Medicine Co., Col urn bus. O. I'erunn. Almnnnc for 1001. Tha Tirtt "Woman Ever graphed. Photo- Woman's Hum? Comi;itiinii. Nowadays, when the principal busi ness cf photograper3 is making por traits for women,'cnd when being pho tographed Is one of woman's chief do lighta, it ia interesting to know that the first woman who ever sat before a camera died at Hacking.? last month. This lady was Dorothy Catherine Dia per. In 1839, shortly after Daguerrc's announcement of his discovery cf the action of sunlight 011 silver, her broth er, the distinguished John W. Draper, afterward president of New York Uni versity's medical ce.Ucge, mado some experiments with a carrera with his sister for a subject. In or Jsr that the irnpresssion might b2 clearer, her face was dusted with a liao, white p-.wler. This picture, the result of the fi:t ex periment, is still in existence, and is, owned by Lord Hersshel't hc"-r a g land. Many other men I. no that they v.eie first i;i npr.Mrr Da guerre's discovery, but tbetc clam. -re not well founded. Miss Draper's like ness and the date it boars haye boon accepted as final proof that to her brother balongs tho honor of being tho first man to photograph a woman, and to her the distinction o! being the first woman ever photographed. YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE Taking when you take Grove' Taste less Chili Tonic because the formula . is plainly printed on every bottle show ing that it is simply Iron and Quinine in tasteless form. No Cure no pay. "No, she doesn't dare to go to church." "Why not?" "She has got so in the habit of talking aloud during the opera that she can't truet herself." Cleveland Plain Dealer. BILIOUS COLIC PREVENTED Take a dose of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as soon as tho first indication of the dis ease appears and a threatened attack may be warded off. Hundreds ol peo ple use the remedy in this way with perfect success. For sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co., Scotland Nesk, and Leggett's Drug Store, Hobgood. "I cannot sing the Old Songs," warb led the young woman at the piano, but this was small relief, f r the new ones she sang were even vror3e. Chi cago Tribune. IT KEEPS THE FEET AND DRY. WARM Ask today for Allen's Foot Ease, a powder. It cures Chilblains, Swollen, ; Sweating,. Sore, Aching, Damp feet. 1 At an aruggms ana snoo ytorw, 7. Sevea ?,I2iiei3 boxes son 4 in past 13 months, , '
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