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ADVERTISING IB TO BUSINESS VHAT STEAM IS TO Machinery, GuEir Propelling Power IF YOU ARE A HUSTLER rou WILL ADVERTISE YCCB Business, Commonw: rrv TO H M 0 E. E .HIL.LIARD , Editor and Proprietor. EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.00. VOL. XXI. New Series-Vol. 7. (7-1 8) SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1905. NO 41 l wJsi.r. Ill WIIMII For coughs, colds, bronchi s-:hma, weak throats, weak lungs, consumption, take Aver's Cherry Pectoral. ectora! Always keep a bottle of it in the house. We have been saying this for 60 years, and so" have ths doctors. I have Bsrd Ayer's Cherrv Fertoralin my f tin ;' fir years. It is the best medicine 1 :he v orltl. I knovr, for all throat and lung J- K- okcross, Waltbam, Mass. IS- .'-T. .?!.!". .T.O. ATEECO., C M I.mvell. Mass. sum ,-3;.!v action of the bovireis is neces .,-y. Aid nature w:m Aver s Puk PARKER'S HAiR BALSAM Clouuea and bc&utitlcs tlie hall. J- -f? H lronu-i-t 1-Jiurii:t growth. I ii"?? J Milevt-r Fails to Restore Gray! Cures pca!p diseases & hair iulliDir. PROFESSIONAL. ra:. J. r. wimber.l.ki, U OFFICE IJiilCK HOTEL, SCOTLAND NECK. N. C. Hi A. A- ALBION DUNN, ffg ATTORNEYS AT LAW, (Scotland Neck, N. C. Ib-act'ec wherever their sarvicea are le-juired. $4 W. 31IX0N, Uei'kactixg Optician, Waiyii-Maeer, Jewelek, Esgcavek. Scotland Neck, N. C. iikTa. C. LIVEKMON, i 4fc Dentist. OFFiCE-Over New Whithead Building 0,;I-3 hoard from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to o o'clock, p. m. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. f I j WARD L. TEAVIb, L Attorney and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. x gzfM'Hisy Loaned on farm Land. Did Not Close For a WeeK. Heart Trouble Baf fled Doctors. Br.Miles'Heart Cure and Nervine Cured Me. There is nothing more necessary to health t':?.n sleep and rest. If these are denied you, ;r ) jU riie in the morning more tired than v.h'-rn yr-u v. ent to bed, there is an affection of the nerves plainly present, li your heart is 'veak, or there is an inherited tendency in t:,-t direction, your weakened nerves will soou ro cttect your heart's action as to bring on s-irious, chronic trouble. Dr. Miles' Ner vine is a. nei ve tonic, which quiets the nerves, f that sleep may come, and it quickly re stores the weakened nerves to health and stroiigth. Dr. Miics' Heart Cure is a great Llood and heart tonic which regulates the ac ti n of the heart, enriches the blood and wi troves the circulation. '-Some time ao I was suffering severely with heart trouble. At times my heart would seemingly stop beating and at others it would beat loudly and very fast. Three to four hours sleep each night in ten months was ail I cruhl get. One week in last September I sever closed my eves. I got Dr. Miles' Nervine srid IIe:rt Cure at a drugstore in Lawrence turg, after spending 300.00 in medi cir.es and doctors in Louisville, Shelbyville, Frankfort, Cincinnati and Lawrenceburg, nd in three days have derived more benefit irom tne use 01 your remedies mail & gui from all the doctors and their medicines. I think ev-rybody oiht to know of the m vt Ions power contained in your remedies.1 it ti li.. -tt y mar- . 11. 1. llL;iii:s,Fox Creek, Ky. All ch f'rncrrriQf: tll sinfl niara.Tltee first bot- tic 1 )r. M ies' Remedies. Send for free book tul.'erv-ous and Heart Diseases. Address Ir. Miles Medical Co, Elkhart, lad. n ii ay k Mui Lire r y Buggies Harness Wliipis li 0 1) e s laiisyiu, nuiLii uiuuima. It is a pleasure to take Dr. Dade's l ittle J-ver Tills and enjoy their tonic eifeet i-on the liver. Sold by E. T. 'hitehead & Co., Scotland Neck, and Loggett's drug store, Hobgood. I TOFF'S jwEISURE JioUIS, OBSERVATIONS OF Vhii.e it may bs a sort of advertisement to attract attention to the State Fair, the announcement that a succefsful cotton picking machine -r t u will be exhibited there, will interest the farmers. Is 11 A Success: The announcement I? made that an acre of cot ton fully open will be set in the fair grounds and that a successful cotton picking machine will be operated. If such a machine is really a success, it will reyolutioniza some things in the cotton states. tut Arm a man with a bottle of whiskey and you have created a condition that makes possible many an evil. Indeed whiskey is one of the. most po- 4 Wt-a n of Evil ent weapons cl evil u the laDi Tn0 unlon printers in Charlotte have joined the general printers' strike for eight hours work with nine hours pay. The employers in Charlotte have resisted the strikers' demands and the latter are cut ol jobs while the papers are coming out all the same. The Charlotte News of 28th ult. gave the following bit cf experience, which shows how wickedly men will employ whiskey : "Yesterday after The News went to press ono of its new men weni io a restaurant to get dinner. A few minutes later one of the office force went into the restaurant and fonnd a member of ths Charlotte Typographical Union with a bottle of whiskej in his hand endeavoring to get the other fellow to take the whiskey with a view to get ting him drunk, and in that way depriving this paper of the services of this man." tttt Glorious October, the red leaf month, is here again. This is the month o! matchless charms when hill and dale, mountain and glen are all covered beauty ; Glorious Octo'oiT. autumn time remind U3 to say farewell to sultry summer and welcome the bracing atmosphere of fall and winter. It is the joyous harvest time when he who has faithfully and laboriously tilled the soil since the opening of the spring can now realize the results ol his year's exertions and rejoice in the plenty that comes to him who has been diligant ia the . bu ji'neos to wbich he has for months given thought and labor. With the chatting groups of children who go running oyer the hilis and the sun-tanned toilers in the ripened harvest fields there is gladness and joy in glorious October. One other charm about this good month of October is the fact that it is the bu?ie3t month in the year. For the most part there is less" hindrance by reason or heat or cold or rain ; and so the round of toil goes on undisturbsd. Then there are fewer holidays in October than in any other month. The whole blessed sunshiny days are given to busy work and the nsjlts of this month count more for the people, perhaps, than of any ottier month of the year. Again we say glorious October, and good cheer to all the land throughout this roost delightful month. tttt Pkesident Roosevelt was a great hero with all men but a few days ago because of his good offices in bringing about reconciliation bet wean Russia , aD( Japan whereby the slaughter ot human Did 3Ir. Roosevelt Jkno su ,.. , , . , . life by war was stopped. To-day there is a question with the American people whether Mr. Roosevelt knew about how the Eqaitable life iusurance company used the people's money for his election in the last presidential campaign. Recent developments have shown that the managers of th9 Equitable appropriated large sums of money which balongei to its policy holders for the purpose of aiding the Republican campaign. This was very wrong and not only the policy holders in the Equitable insurance company, but the American people as a whole, condemn it. Yesterday the people were praising President Roose velt lor his great work in bringing Russia and Japan to terms of peace; to-day they are asking the question, Did Mr. Roosevelt know about the unrighteous use of the people's money for his own election ? Now, what will President Rossevelt say about it?8urely he will have something to say ; for the people almost demaud it. If such a great question were before the people concerning aCongressm m who might be canvassing for a reelection, the people would fire questions at him if he would not discuss it otherwise. We believe the people' are waiting to sea what the President will say about this groat Insurance scandal which figured in his election. Croup is quickly relieved, and Whooping Cough vill not "run its cours" if you use the oiisinal Bee's Laxative Honey and Tar. This Cough Syrup ia different from all others be cause it acts on the bowels. You can not ctire Croup and Whooping Cough until you rid the system of all conges tion, by working off the cold through a copious action of the bowels. Bee's Laxative Honey and Tar does this, and ures all Coughs, Croup, Whooping Cough, etc. No opiates. Sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co., Scotland Neck, Legget's drug store, Hobgood. One night is all the tiw r,ecesary to prov that Pineules is the best rem edy in the world for backache and all kidney and bladder troubles. I! yon have rheumatism or any other blood daoase a single dose will give rel.e f. Sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co., fecot JandNeck.Leggett's drugetore, Hob- good. PASSING EVENTS. with nature's great kaleidoscope of and when the cool breezes ol gladsome SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. It cures painful, smarting, nervous feet and ingrowing nails, and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot Ease maKea tight or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure for sweatine, callous and hot, tired, aching feet. Try it to-day. Sold by all Druggists and Shoe stores, 25c. Don't accept any substitute. Trial package FREE. Ad dress, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Backache is never known to those persons who take an occasional dose of Pineules. The value of the resin ob tained from the Pine tree has long been recognized in the treatment of diseases of the bladder and kidneys. One dose of Pineules will give relief, and one bottle will cure. Sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co , Scotland Neck, I,egget t'a drug store,. Hobgood. THE DIVINING ROD THE USE 0F IT SOMETIMES , CALLED DOWSING. Writer Believes That Not Infrequently Men Employing- This Bit of Magic Honestly Have Faith in It. From time to time during the last 240 years the so-called divining rod has been the subject of public con troversy throughout the civilized world. Periodically a newspaper cor respondence arises like an epidemic and then dies away, to be resuscitated a few yeass later as If it began for the first time. I append some brief notes on the subject, tracing the forked rod from its earliest recorded use in history down to the present time. The origin of the word "dowsing" Is obscure. I am inclined to think it arose from the translation of the colloquial German name of the rod A DOWSER AT WORK. Schlag-ruthe, striking rod into the Cornish Celtic or Middle English (M. E., duschen to strike or fall), when the German miners were brought over to Cornwall in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. It was they who doubtless introduced the use of the rod into England for prospecting the. mines of Cornwall and Somerset. Nearly 100 years later it was used for finding underground water in Somer set, where a domestic water supply is in many places most difficult to ob tain, owing to the nature of the sec ondary rock formation there; the water existing in fissures or hollows, and not in large beds, as it does in many other places. , The text question was, What was the function of the do wring or divin ing rd? This is of ust simply as an index of an unconscious muscular spasm which occurs in the dowser when he if. in the neighborhood of un derground water, metallic ore, or any other object for which he is accus tomed to search by means of the rod. Hence many dowsers do not use a rod at all, trusting entirely to the sensa tions they experience These sensa tions often produce a serious malaise on the part of the dowser when at the object of his search. For two cen turies dowsers in all countries have asserted the existence of this malaise. What, then, gives rise to the spasm and twisting of the rod? Is it a physical force like electricity? Nearly all the diviners or dowsers them selves say it is electricity, just as they would explain boiler explosions, or anything out of the common, by elec tricity. To set this question at rest, I made a series of experiments on in sulated and uninsulated dowsers, and found that whenever the dowser thought he was insulated the rod would not work, and vice versa, though, as a matter of fact, I had, un known to the dowser, reversed mat- THE TYPICAL. DIVINING ROD. ters that is. lie was in conducting communication with the earth when he imagined he was insulated, and was insulated when he thought he was not. After much tedious investigation and experiment I came to the conclusion that the motion of the rod in a gen uine and successful dowser is due to involuntary muscular motion on his part, and that the stimulus which ex cites this motion is a reflex action, like that which excites sneezing, hic cough, blushing, or palor. The issue was, therefore, narrowed down to the origin of this nervous stimulus. Further inquiry showed that it is due either to (a) a sub conscious detection of surface signs of underground water, which would link the phenomena of the divining rod on to other well-known psychological and physiological phenomena; or (b) it is sometimes resembling the unex plained instinct of many homing birds and animals; in fact, something new to official science, resembling what is called ."lucidity" or '.'clairvoyance." W. P. BARRETT. 1 Fr coughs, Colds and Croon A COYOTE AND BOARS : THEIR ANTICS WATCHED BY ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES. Tlie Coyote Proves Himself a Coward When Cornered and Runs for Protection from His Hu man Friend. Yesterday I walked through the Blue Mountain forest with Romulus, my prairie wolf. He lives in the great game preserve altogether now, but he comes to the Northwest Gate every night to be fed, and he is never so far away but he will come quickly at a call, pleased as any dog to start out with us for a tramp. It was about 3 o'clock in the after noon when I unlocked the forest gate, and the wolf was nowhere in sight. Making a speaking trumpet of my hands, I called his name, drawing it out as long as I could hold my breath. As the echo died away among the hills, I heard the coyote's answering howl, and presently I saw him, a speck cf gray against the snow, com ing at a lope over the crest of some rising ground. His loose hair moved in the wind as he came and gave him the appearance of something blown along. When he came up he smelled, shook his head knowingly and pranced about, showing his pleasure in every movement. Then he leaned upon me, seizing my gloved hand in his teeth, and as I moved along, he trotted be side me, holding on to a loose strap of one of my snow shoes, which strap he quickly cut through with his teeth and carried off to play with. Then Romulus and I went up the hill to the east for half a mile, then south to an open glade in the forest, where I could watch the wild boar when they came in for their evening meal at the feeding ground. In work ing their way through the snow, they had made deep and narrow trails to and from the places they wished to visit, and along these they were in the habit of passing, sometimes singly and again a dozen together in single file. It was not long before I heard in the distance a grunting and squealing which told me the wild pigs were com ing, and a moment later I could see a number walking along in Indian file well to the east of me. I decided to change my position, and quietly worked my way over to another clump of trees, crossing the bear trail be fore mentioned and getting to the windward of it. The wolf saw the THROUGH THE SNOW. pigs coming, and erecting the hair on his back, he set out to meet them. Long before he reached them they got his scent, and "whoofing" disgustedly, they ran back on their own trail. They did not go far, however, but, coming to a fork in the tracks, turned and again headed for the feeding ground, over the very route I had expected to see them on in the first place. I felt sure they would not pass the point at which I had crossed this trail, but I waited to see w-hat they would do. On came the boar, two little gray pigs leading, followed by a large one, almost black, possibly their another, and behind her there v.'ere half a dozen more of different sizes. They soon smelt the coyote, and saw him, too, for that matter, but after halting for about a minute they seemed to decide that there was nothing very dangerous about him, and proceeded on their way. Almost before he knew it the first little pig ran into my trail, and he stopped so quickly that he almeat fell backward over. With a wild "whoof" of disgust and fear, he turned and ran, the others following his example on the instant. Then he seemed to change his mind, and the whole party stopped, while the first little pig ad vanced, as though to make sure there vjas no mistake. As he reached the cross trail, he turned back as before, but, again changing his mind, he seemd to make a desperate resolve. He decided to take the risk, and. gathering all his strength, he dashed wildly over the hated spot, and sped away toward the feeding grounds as madly as sped the pigs which ran down a steep place into the sea. All this time the coyote had been but an interesting spectator, but now, seeing the little pig isolated, as it were, he jumped into the trail and started after it at the top of his speed. For a moment both pig and wolf were lost to sight, but then we heard a rushing sound, and along the trail came the coyote, running for his life, with the little gray boar right close behind him. As the wolf drew near me, he bolted the track, and the pig kept straight on the trail until he joined his compan ions, when the whole herd turned and dashed off, grunting and squealing, into the forest. ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES. Jin THE RUSSIAN BOZfAK 'MISERABLE CLASS LATELY IN TRODUCED TO PUBLIC. Existence Little" Higher Than That of Brute Beasts, They Are Dangerous and Violent and Constantly Un der Police Surveillance. Ask anybody who has been to Mos cow whether he has heard of a "Boziak," and he will probably look at you in amazement, shake his head, and possibly even deny the existence of this interesting sect. But not only in Moscow, but over the whole of the Rus sian empire, these people are to bo found scattered in their thousands. It is, perhaps, as well to explain what a "Boziak" really is. To convey the real meaning of tht term is some what difficult, but if we gave as an analogy our tramps and vagabonds, we should be getting nearer to it than would be possible in any other way. The "Boziaks" are destitute people, absolutely devoid of any education, and with very little intelligence. In fact, one might almost refer to them as tile line of demarcation between animalism and civilization; they are the indirect outcome of the emancipa tion of the serfs. "We find ourselves in the city of Moscow, meet one of these creatures, and allow ourselves to be lei by him wheresover he may go, As a matter of fact, we should find that presently we should get to a large square in which is an open shed. This square is known as the "Khretu Rienok." Here we should be met by the very extraordinary sight of hundreds of similar individuals gathered together, many of them standing about in groups and talking; others, too tired for such business, lying down on the hard Stones wrapped in sleep. Thousands assemble here, and the police circulate freely among them, preventing them gathering into groups and creating any disturbance, and, what is more important, stopping them from going into the streets of the city. It must be understood that these people are really very dangerous, for the abject state of poverty into which they have fallen, and their ferocious nature, combined with their crass ig norance, make them willing to commit almost any deed of violence lor the sake of sufficient money to procr.ro them a little food and some vodka. For food they, as a rule, are content with eating the entrails of some ani mal, which they purchase in a hot con dition from a neighboring store house. A large handful will cost six kopecks, V IN A BOZIAK "DOSS-HOUSE." and should they have been successful in their day's begging they will sup plement thig with a3 much vodka as they can afford. Perhaps they may have had a very good day, In which case they will take off their boots and hand them over to a cobbler who works under the shed. In one of our pictures we have an illustration of this cobbler at work. How he exists Is quite a puzzle, for his charges are so small that it seems almost impossible that he can even provide the materials for his work. As night closes In, these creatures are compelled by the police to seek shelter in the "doss houses." For the sum of six kopecks they are enabled to obtain a lodging for the night. This consists of nothing more than a space on a slightly inclined plank. As a rule, the rooms contain accommoda tion for 40 people, and the largest number gathered together in one house may be put down at 250. There is, however, a still more desti tute class than theso poor creatures who are absolutely without a kopeck. These find accommodation in what is known as the "free house;" the ac commodation provided by this house is considerably larger than that of any of the houses to which the inmates have to contribute; in fact, its full capacity amounts to 1,000 lodgers, and each room is capable of holding 250 people. The women, of course, are kept separate from the men; nor is there in this place any provision made for married couples. There is considerable competition to get in here; in fact, the entrance to the house is besieged by the "Boziaks" hours before the doors open. In the summer the doors are opened at 7 to 8 o'clock, and in the winter at 6 o'clock. These people have come into some prominence through the instrumental ity of the Russian author, Maxim Gorky, who has written one of his best-known plays around them. He knew them perhaps better than any one else did; for not only is he cred ited with having been one of them, himself, but he was endowed with an almost poetic insight into the abject ness of their condition. ARTHUR V. KENAII."" Just Suited Uncle. Nephew Oh, the gout is nothing, un cle. I shouldn't mind if I had it. - Uncle I shouldn't mind, either, if you nad it. Scraps. 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