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If You Are a Hustler YOU ILL Advertise OUR Business Send in Your Ad. Xow. ADVERTISING IS TO BUSINESS WHAT STEAM IS TO MACHINERY T'nit Groat Propelling Power. Commonwealth H M E. E . HIL.L.IARD, Editor nd Proprietor. "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $i 03 VOL. XXII. New Series-Vol. 9. (6-18) SCOTLAND NECK, N. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1906. NO. 17 n A D AND MONUMENTS AND GRAVETCNES flits. a g ' I t-T7 LVi r If I Nervous ? I yervoust Then vour blood must be in i v.tv had condition. 'You certainly know what to take, then take it Ayer's Sarsa parilla. If you doubt, then consult your doctor. We know what he will say about this grand old family medicine. This is thp first question yotiT doctor would .t A u ........ rifii arf" lift KDOWS iiiur iiiiiv u.'iion ..f ih imwi'U is absolutely j essential to recovery. Keep your liver active find J"lir nnweis regular iy wo-ms doses of Ayer's Fills. Made, by J. C. Ayer Co., Iiowell, Mass. &1BU uuiuuuwturern u i HAIR VIGOR. yers AGUE CURE. CHERRY PECTORAL. v.-a have no aeorcts We putmsa the formulas of all our medicines. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Cleanses and beautifies the naif. Pr..nitp a luxuriant growth. mm Nevrr Fails to Beetore Gray 5 Hai. to its Youthful Color. I Cures scalp disease 8t hair lulling. gie. and gl.tt) at Druggista PROFESSIONAL. O. F. SMITH, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. Office Formerly Occupied by Dr. Hassell. w ILL II. JOSEY, GENERAL INSURANCE AND AG E N T, Scotland Neck, N. C. 0 R. J. P. WIMBERLEi, OFFICE B2ICK HOTEL, SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. W A. & ALBION DUNN, , ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Scotland Neck, N. C. Pnct'ce wherever their services art required. Pt i: i n.v ctixc; Optician, W.VI'.'.'I-.M AKER, JtWEI.EK, ESGKAVE) Scotland Neck, N. C. jjll. A. C. L1VERM0N, Dentist. OFFiCK-Over New Whithead Buildin; 0 :fi.;o hours from 9 to 1 o'elock ; 2 t 5 o'clock, -p. m. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. E D WARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. Money Loaned on Farm Lands. Grim Grasp Caused Heart Disease. Could Not Lie On Left Side. Dr.Miles'flcart Cure and Nervine Cured Me. Mrs. H. R. Jobe, fo-merly of Birmingham, Ala., writes from Lldrcdge, the same state, as follows: "It is with the precitcrt pleasure that I rec ommend Dr. Miles' N: rvine and Heart Cure. I only wish that I could tell every Mitierer how much rood they have clone me. l ast winier I had a severe attack of La Onppe, whkh left my heart in a v'erv bad condition. I couid not lie down for the smothering spells that would almost over come me and the feeling of oppression around my heart. I had nut been so that I couid lie on my Jeft side for a long; time. I rot your Heart Cure and took three bottles. 1 have no troubh now with my heart and can lie on my Je:t side as well as my right, rcrn erly I had suffered for vears with nerv ous prostration. 1 had tried so many rem edies that I had pot clctr out ot heart of pet t n;j anything that would help me. The nerves of my heart were so affected that . sometimes it would l.,se beats so it would s-'-tn to stop a ho;; i-her. It was on the ad- ce of a lady fii.-:.cl that I tried vour Kestor :i ive Nerviie. I felt better after the first few doses ar,, t two bottles of Nervine and ore of Heart Cure made me feel like a new per.-on. Mv her.rt is all right and my nerv-ousne.-,-, is all gone. I never fail to recom mend it to otiiers afflicted as I was." All druggists sell and guarantee first bot tle J)r. M;ie' Remedies. Send for free book fn Nervous and Heart Diseases. Addres Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, lad. Livery Buggies Harness Wh ip,s Robes tf 3, M 6K3 Of in s DaY Hen, CONVENIENT SMOKE-HOUSE One Which Can Be Built at Small Expense and Which Will Do Good Work. A smokehouse like the one shown is a good thing to have on every farm. Build of matched boards with shingle roof. Six feet square is a good size. Build close to a side hill so that a small furnace, A, may be made of clay, bricks or sheet Iron or a large tile may be used. This should be con nected with the smokebouse by ten feet THE SMOKE HOUSE. of eight-inch tile, B. A piece of stove pipe should lead out through the roof, having a damper at D that can be worked from the outside of the house. Hang meat in the house, explains the Farm and Home, build a fire at the furnace of green birch chips, turn the damper so as to let the draft out through the stovepipe till the fire gets going well, then shut the damper and cover draft in furnace and the smoke house will do business for six hours at least. A GRAIN BIN. Plan of One Which Will Economize Space, and Be Easy of Access. A grain bin somewhat similar to thai shown in the cut was recently seen by the writer, and its economy of space struck him favorably. Its thickness r . i ii . . yi num trie wan uui JJ is not more than one toot, yet because it reaches to the floor ind can be carried up four feet from the floor, its capacity is large. One-half of the tront is hinged sc that all the contents can be easily reached, even when the grain is near ly u:;cd up. For limited quartern, sajs the Farm Journal, such bins wciill certainly prove very useful. SUGGESTIONS. Buy seed corn on the ear, when it can be obtained in that way. See that the seed com is all germ lnable. While the mows are full of hay, it is a good time to fix the pulleys in the roof of the barn for using the horse fork next year. Not so much danger of falling and getting injured. When it gets so that we can dig a bit of horseradish with the pick or crowbar, it is a sure sign that spring is coming. Keep up your spirits; horseradish is the sure forerunner of spring. Farm Journal. The chief enemies of wheat are the Hessian fly, chinch-bug and grain plant louse. The chinch-bug is cred ited with annual ravages to the total of $20,000,000, which is probably a low estimate. Man Is Master of the Land. There are no soil conditions that cannot be overcome by man if those conditions are such that they inter fere with the growing of crops. What seems impossible now will be possible later, when the value of land has risen to the point where great operations will pay. The sandy, leachy soils can be covered with a layer of clay and the heavy lands can be sanded. The swamp land can be drained and the arid lands watered. The " time will come when man will put into use every foot of land not closed up by the eternal ice around the poles. Even in the far north, glass gardens will yet become numerous and beat back the frost line. Alfalfa Pointers. Alfalfa is a deep rooted plant, hence requires soils in which the subsoil is of such a nature 4that the roots can readily penetrate it. It must be well drained to a depth of at least two feet or the alfalfa will not prosper. Any field likely to be under water for more than 36 hours at a time is quite unsuitable for alfalfa. The same is true of a field with hardpan subsoil within two feet of the surface. To get a stand of alfalfa sow suffi cient good seed which you know will germinate. Have the land well pre pared and in a good state of fertil ity, and be sure that the land is well drained. Fertilizers. A man must use fertilizers intelli gently or he will throw away a great deal of money upon them. It is ab surd for a farmer to purchase a fer tilizer just because it is a valuable fertilizer and put it upon land that he does not know needs fertilizers. A man should not expend a dollar in fertilizers till he knows what kinds he needs. If his land is rich in a cer tain element he will but throw money away if he buys fertilizers to put on his land. Wasting money in this way la one ot the penalties of not knowing, J i BUILDING THE GREENHOUSE What Points Are Well to Remember Straight Roof Better Than Hip-Roof. A correspondent of the Rural New Yorker writes that he is going to build a greenhouse to grow plants for early setting without heating. He says he has been told by an expert carpenter that a hip roof would give more heat in early spring than a straight one. There would be no special advan tage in regard to sun heat to be had from building your greenhouse with a VENTiLtT0 Ventilator. 0ASS BOflfiDS DIAGRAM OF GREENHOUSE. hip roof, as Indicated In your letter, replies the Rural New Yorker. In addition to this, it would probably cost more, owing to the extra labor in construction, and the joints are more likely to prove leaky than those on a straight roof. A straight roof with a rise of about eight inches to the foot is the most practical way to build a greenhouse, though a lean-to house (as the one slope structure is com monly called) would not require so steep a roof unless the front wall were very low. A very light and easily con structed greenhouse may be made after the plan roughly indicated in diagram In which part of the front wall is of glass and part of boards. STOCK IN THE ORCHARD. A Questionable Practice Even Hogs Are Apt to Do More Harm Than Good. A correspondent of the Farmers' Review says that one of the greatest causes of damage to orchards is the practice of farmers turning their stock into the orchards. He says that he has known farms where this did more damage than all other causes combined. We believe the conditions are only occasional in which 'it is safe to turn stock into orchards. The condition where this might be done would be where the land is so sandy that it will not pack under the feet of the animals and the trees are headed so high that the animals could not browse the limbs. But this condition is met with but rarely and not often in 'the middle west. Our prairie soil has in it a great deal of clay mixed with humus and this when wet packs readily. On our hillsides we often find bowlder clay, and also in our roll ing land that has been timbered with hardwood we find a clay that is very retentive of moisture and will pack down as hard as a rock. There is no surer way of killing a tree than by packing the ground around it. We have known of hogs collecting around a single apple tree more than around others and killing that apple tree. Hogs, however, are less objectionable in the orchards than other kinds of stock, for the reason that they root up the ground and this improves the soil rather than injures it. A small num ber of hogs may be given the run of a large orchard and not do any great amount of Samage unless they collect too much around one or two trees, which if in clay soil are about sure to be killed. We do not believe that, as a general proposition, it is safe to permit stock to run in ur orchards in the middle west. TRIMMING BERRY BUSHES. Some Suggestions for the Thinning Out of the Old Brush The Time to Do It. When I began raising blackberries I cut out the old brush as soon as the crop was all picked. But I found this was not the best way, as the wind often breaks down the young plants when nothing is left to support them. Also there is much work at that time, the weather is hot, and the work is disagreeable, as I am wearing thin clothes and get badly scratched. I now avoid all these difficulties by waiting until winter, says a corre spondent of the Farm and Home. The new plants are so hardened that the wind will "not destroy them; I have plenty of time and can put on my heavy coat and gloves and remove the old brush without being scratched. I select a time when the temperature is rising and the ground frozen. I use a short iron hook with . a handle about four feet long. Place the hook back of an old stalk about a foot above the ground, then give a quick jerk, end it breaks close to the frozen soil. Brown Tail Moth Spreading. "The brown-tail moth is rapidly spreading. It is present in nearly all parts of Massachusetts, is abundant in portions of Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, and is probably to be found in northeastern Connecticut and southeastern Vermont. Within ten years it will probably be found in New York, New Jersey, and perhaps in Pennsylvania, and may be even more widely distributed," says Prof. T. H. Fernald. " - PSftg? Early Risers mm EASY VENTILATING SYSTEM How Fresh Air May Be Supplied to the Stock Without Cre ating Draft. To provide for the fresh air inlet, the floor of the feeding alley is ele vated 12 inches above the level of the stalls. The inlet may be ten-inch tile, or a wooden box, a, about ten inches square, running under floor entire length of feeding alley. This will admit enough fresh air for 15 cattle. If more are to be supplied, a conduit placed on each side of the feeding al ley will be generally sufficient, says Farm and Home. The main inlet is tapped opposite each pair of cattle by the distributing pipes, b. These lead into the man- PLAN OP VENTILATING SYSTEH. gers, c, and are placed close against the parting blocks, their open ends be ing prevented from plugging with dirt by a leather flap, or other device. The foul air is carried off by means of ven tilating shafts, d, leading from ceiling of stable through roof. Run purline post straight from the floor to pur line. Beside these posts is a very con venient place for the ventilating flues, as they are out of the way, and they are not so readily chilled as when placed against the side of the barn. Excessive chilling of these foul air outlets not only reduces the convec tion current, but condenses moisture, causing it to drip. These foul air outlets should be of good size, and extend well up be yond ridge of barn. If not carried far enough above roof, the wind cur rent will often be in the wrong direc tion, and, instead of acting as out lets, the wind will sometimes force a strong draft of cold air down onto the backs of the cattle. BLOATING ON MILK FOAM. Farmer Iioses Calves in This Way Gets Good Results from Sep arated Milk. "I have had some evperience in calf feeding that might be interesting . to some of your readers, and if some one else has had the same trouble I would like tc hear from him. When I first got my hand separator, I fed the milk to the calves without taking the foam off; it would be two or three inches deep in each pail. I had three calves die from bloat. They would commence to bloat as soon as they drank the milk, and died in from two to three hours. As soon as I made up my mind that it was the foam that killed them, I skimmed the foam off. Then I had no more calves die for about three months, when one of the boys got careless and went out one evening and fed one calf without taking off the foam; next morning it lay dead where he had fed it, all bloated. Since thai we are very careful to take the foam off, as I feel certain that it is the foam that kills them. I have ten fine calved a year old last fall, raised on separator milk, and ten more three to four months old, that are doing fine. A year ago last fall, I let one calf suck the cow all winter to see how it would compare with the ones that had the separated milk, but I could see no difference." Samuel Fry er, in Wallace's Farmer. Starting Celery. The farmer who wishes to grow a little celery for his own use will not have 'the large facilities for start ing it possessed by the commercial growers. He will find it necessary, however, to start his celery in the house if he expects to have any for summer use, as celery when small is a very slow grower, and even the seed is slow in germinating. He can sow his seed in a box in the house and put the box in a window, provided he covers the box with a glass to pre vent the drying out of the top soil. The plants may be transferre:! to larger boxes in the course of a month or six weeks from the time the seed is sown, if they grow thickly enough to become crowded. They cannot, however, be transferred to- the open ground until spring is well advanced. Worm That Eats Canada Thistle. It is said that in some sections of the country there has appeared a worm which lives on the leaves of the Canada thistle, and thus threatens to exterminate this great weed pest, says Farmers' Guide. This new para site is of the caterpillar type, about one and a half inches long, and will no doubt be made welcome, as far as the farmer is concerned. Surely, if even a worm enemy will help to de stroy this type of thistle, what a blessing to agriculture it would be. We may be sure that the farmer who is at all acquainted with the Canada . thistle will do all in his power to encourage the working of this new species of worm. - The farmer's cow should be the best cow in the country. ,. XATIVE HONEY ZHeTAR. Ths Original Laxative Cough Syrup. Moves the Bowels works all cold out of the system. Best for Croup, Whooping Cough, Bronchial Affections, Asthma and Weak Lungs. HO OPIATES Sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co., Scotland Neck, and Leggetts' drugstore, Hobgood. WE KEEP ON HA1TD BURIA Jj ALL KINDS ALL With Complete Undertakers' Outfit.! HEARSE SERVICE AT AN Day or night we .are ready to accommodate our friends and the Public Generally. M. Hoffman & Ero., Scotland Neck. North ri! The Largest and Best Equipped riant iu the State CHARLES MILLER WALS ? Q;iarrier anl Manufactu er II hit i i t la l n ti n hi n w n hi, TOMBS, GRAVE-STONES of Every Description. Freight prepaid on all .ship ments. Hai'e delivery guar anteed. Write for designs and prices. Iron Fencinjrs for 3 lor jEcECTa Cemetery and otherjii purposes a Speci a l, t y . Petekskuko, Va. J. Y, SAVAGE, A gt, at Scotland Neck, N. C. Undertakers Supplies Full and Complete Line. cofims, caskets', Burial Robes etc. Hearse service any Time . N. B. Jessy CO, Scotland Neck, N. C. FOR OVER SIXTY YEARS. Mrs. Winning's Soothing Syrup has been used It sixty yenrs by millions of mothers for their chHdren while teeth ing, with perfect s'iccpts. It soothes the child, softens the gum?, allays all piin, cure" wind colid, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. It will relieve the lOO- litt'e sufferer immediately Sold by- druggists in eyery part f ti e world. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and asu for Mrs. Winslow's Sooth ing Rvrnn: chUdrcr er- Or.o Entile Cough Cure GASKETS Notice. By virtue of power vested fn me as executor of the Jate V. A. Dunn by reason of that deed of trust executed to he late W. A. Dunn By Redmond rilor and wife Hester Taylor, of rec ord in the office of the Remitter of Deeds for Ilxlifxx County in,B ok 150, at Rage 42. I shall sell for cmsIi to the highest liidderat Public Auction in the town of Scotland Neck, N. C. on the 12th day of Jl iy 1!)CG, at 12 o'clock, the follow in dpcrilp(1 lrrt i.f Reil R-tHte, luntf.beinj; and i-itua'e in the County of Halifax and State of North Carolina, to-uit : That IjmiH bounded by the land of ILdwaid StHton, John G. Mlzelt and others and beginning at a poet cak on the road lending from Pnlmvra to Tar hnro, N. C. ; thence N. 05 W. 4D poles io a pine ; theuce S. St) W !J7 poles to a pine : thence i. 8!) W. 77 pole to a pine ; thence due N. 9 poles to a mi le n the Wilkin's line ; thence N. 02i E. 51 poles to a red onk ; thence to the te ginning and con'aining 5(5 new This the 10th day of April 1!K ;G. Noah Biccs, Executor of W. A. Dunn, Trustee. Sam A. Dlxx, Attorney. 412-4t HPPSOBT'S English Kitchen, On American and European Plan. Established 1890. A nice Koast Peef Dinner lor 25c. Fish, Oysters and Crabs in sea son . We also have a few nicely furnished rooms for our pa trons. U7 Main Street, Norfolk, Ya. 1 Notice. North Carolina, In the Superior Halifax County, ( Court, Juno Term, l'JUG. R. J. Madry V3 Illinois Iti v and Grain Company. Let the defendant and others tke notice that an action entitled hbove has teen commenced in the Supeilor Court of Halifax County by II J. Madry, as plaintUF, against Illinois Hay & Grain Compiny, as defendant, for the recovery ( the sum of two hun dred and ten dollars due as damages for breach of contract in failing and reiusing to deliver according to con tract, to plaintiff, one cir 1 ad of good choice timothy hay, in May, 190-1, for which plaintiff had paid defendant in advance, in which action a warrant of attachment has b9en issued agaiust the property and choses in action of the defendant, within this state, return able to the next term of tto Superior Court of Halifax County, North Car olina, to be held in the town of Hall fax, N. C, on the thirteenth Monday after the first Monday iu March, 190G, when and where defendant is required to appear and answer or demur to the complaint of the plaintiff, otherwise plaint'ff will apply to the Court for the re'iet demanded. Given under mv hand, Ibis the 2nd d;iy of April, 190G. S. M. Gauv, Clerk of the Superior Court, Halifax County. 4 5 It S K E D ! 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