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SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1906.
NUMBER 44.
Commonwealth.!
D
Thousands Have Kidney Trouble
and Don't Know it.
How To Find Out. '
F:!l a. bottle or common glass with your
w.:r :.nd let it stand twenty-four hours; a
. , sediment or set-
mug uiuicaic:, an
, unhealthy condi
tion of the kid
r W
!
neys; if it stains
your linen it is
Pi
evidence of kid
ney trouble ; too
frequent desire to
pass it or pain in
back is also
'-..in proof that the kidneys and blad
: r.tof order.
What to Do.
is comfort in the knowledge so
: eprjssea. t!:at Dr. Kilner s Swamp
i'reat kidney remedy fulfills every
curing rheumatism, pain in the
v. . .
.. '.: .ir.eys, liver, bladder and every part
::;nary passage. It corrects inability
... -vater ana scalding pa;n in passing
L;a etrects toilowing use of hauor.
v. ...
r.-'
d.::.
cri
re
C'--".
It -
be
:- l-ser, and overcomes that unpleasant
'' ' being compelled to go often
- ;r.s diy, and to get up many times
'-he night. The mild and the extra-effe.-t
of Swamp. Root is soon
-.. I: r.snds the highest for its won-,-ures
of the most distressing cases.
.'.rtd a medicine you should have the
5 d by druggists in 50c. and$l. sizes.
. have a sample bottle cf this
discovery
: -o-k that tells
rt. cut it. both sent
free by mail,
it.'-ab:--J
S.i-1;
C:..
tion
3 Cr. Kurner Sc nmc of Swunp-Rooi
rhamton. N. Y. When writing men
: eadin this trenerous offer in this paper.
i m-ise any mistake, but re-
me 3
Kii:
.her the name, Swamp-Root, Dr.
iier's! Swamp-root, aad the adiress
:h iintoa, X, Y., on flvarv bottle
PROFE3SIOSAL.
O. F. SMITH, M. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
SCOTLAND NECK, N. C.
Ofii-e Formerly Occupied by Dr. Hassell.
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p t h- y Ur freeoffer.
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DITOI'S JEISURE JOUFS,
OBSERVATIONS OF
The Commonwealth believes intensoly in the Southern Cotton Associa
tion and its mission. We believe in its great power for good, not only to
Ket-p Out of rolitics.
ganization has not helped the price of cotton since January 1905, although
we have heard one man say he thought the organization had hurt rather
than helped the price. The spinners of the world m the end will be profited
by the Southern Cotton Association, if It is held within the proper bounds,
for it will eventually work out a stable price for cotton and then both pro
ducer and manufacturer can work on an intelligent basis, But by all
means let all matters political be kept out of the organization.
t I I T
Besides batng one of the most effective gospel preachers in the country,
the late Rev. Sam Jones was a good business man. Somawhere we have
found the
which he
Left a Ooyd Estate.
last weeic, left an estate yalued at $250,000. He owned valuable properties
in Atlanta, Cartersville, his home town, and in other places. He sold out
a fine Kentucky estate because he could not give it necessary attention.
Property belonging to Mrs. Jones was fold some years ago In Atlanta for
$S0,0C0. Hi income annually from lecturing and evangelistic work was
between $35,00 and $10,000. He annually gave away about two-thirds ol
this sum to charities. His benafactions were so numerous, varied and
widely scattered that even his family did not know of them. He rarely
spoke of what he gave away and sought to keep the knowledge from the
public. His life was Insured for $75,000."
tttx
The following editorial in Collier's Weekly is a high compliment to tha
noble profession of teaching : "Whit nobler profession can there be than
The Ncble Profession.
contradiction th... while education is hizhly valued in our country,
teaching on the whole has less honor than it deserves. 'It is a pity, that,
commonly, more care is had, yea, and that among very wise men, to find
out rather a cunnlne man for their horse than a cunning man for their
children.' We do not pay our teachers enough for our own good, since a
liberal Silary attracts talent not only, in itself but because it Is a symbol of
success. Half a million Americans are now engaged in doing what lhey
caa with 20,000,000 younger minds. Surely no half million Americans
are employed in more important wort. 'Teach self denial,' said Walter
Scott (and somethiug might be said ot other virtue?) 'and make' its prac
tice pleasurable, and ycu create for the world a destiny more eublime than
ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer.' Teach anything that
is good, and you touch the depths. The ablest and truest men and women
are required, those who know life and are not pedants, not machines with
notions of suggestion no higher than the ferule and the copy-book. By
formal and uninspired instruction, children, to borrow the rich vocabulary
ol Milton, are 'mocked and deluded .with ragged - notions and babble
ments, while they expected worthy and delightful knowledge.' The
teacher works with living minds and hearts and souls. Oa no man or
woman rests a higher or more inspiring task." '
, - - . Ul V : ; . . . ;
For year9 and years there has been criticism of the State'Fair for the"'
admission of gamblers, fakirs, immoral shows and the like. Every time
Improved at Last
not occur again. So many promises for improvement bad been made and
broken it became to be a sort of joke with the people of the State and
many bad almost lost hope that there was to be any improvement at all.
But the press comments this year have been most favorable towards the
Fair. President Daughtridge has been warmly congratulated on his suc
cess in keeping out many of the objectionable features which have hereto
fore been the subjects of so much rigid criticism. Of course, nobody yet
has come to think of the fair grounds as a Sunday-school and doubtless
the Biblical Recorder puts it right when, in its words of commendation
for the great improvementg it says : "Not a few offenses are committed
in its name, however." But from all accounts the fair grounds were
largely free Irom tha operations of gamblers, robbers and those who would
parade immoral influences to the point of disgUHt to the good people of the
State. Another leature and influence concerning the Fair to be commend
ed is the fact that Chief Marshal J. Y. Blades allowed no liquors at his
headquarters. At almost any fair of the kind, State or county, one who
will make a little observation (and sometimes the observation is almost
forced upon him) will see evidences of considerable drinking about certaia
quarters of the fair grounds ; but to the oredit of Chief Marshal Blades and
the fair management generally, such was not the case in Raleigh at the
late State Fair. It means a great deal, and is a step in tne direction of
more improvement in the Fair in the future. It cannot be denied that
when there is promiscuous drinking It Js easier for other evil Influences to
get a hold and it is harder to shake them loose. We rejoice that the
North Carolina State Fair has at last been Improved in the matter of mor
als and this improvement in its moral tone will lead to improvement In
other things. May such management continue and may it receive the
moral support of all the people.
A YEAR OF BLOOD.
The year 1903 will long ba remember
ed in the home of F. N. Tacket, of
Alliance, Ky. as a year ol blood ; which
flowed so copiously from Mr. Tacket's
lungs that death seemed very near.
He writes :"Severe bleeding from the
lungs and a frightiul cough had
brought me at death's door, when I be
gan taking Dr. King's New Discovery
for Consumption with the astonishing
result that after taking fonr bottles I
was completely retored and as time has
proven permanently cured." Guarante
ed for Sore Lungs, Coughs and Colds,
at E. T. Whitehead & Co's drug store
Price 20? and $1.00. Trial bottle free.
PASSING EVENTS.
one class of persons, but to all classes of persons
in the South. No one caa prove that the or
following item concerning the estate
left : "Rev. Sam B. Jones, who died
that of passing on to younger human beings
the best there is in us? It is rather a strange
such criticisms have been made there has been
a prompt and reassuring promise that it ehould
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SATURDAY
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EARTH'S HIGHEST MONUMENT.
Nov. 4, 06 (Matt 26:17-80.)
To build commemorative mona
menta has been the" universal ambi
tion. Wherever men have gone
they have erected memorial pillars,
mountainous pyramids, colossal
statues to mark the Bpot where great
discoveries were made, or battles
fought or heroes were entombed.
The traveller In his Journey
around the world visits these gigan
tic memorials, and hears again the
story of their creation. So it Is with
the Pyramids, of Egypt, those nfighty
mountains of stone, overlooking the
fat valley of the Nile, the famous
tombs of the Egyptian kings which
the eyes of Moses saw when he was
a school boy in Goshen.
So it la with the mighty pile upon
the battlefield of Waterloo, which
marks the spot where the ambition
of the great Napoleon was crushed,
and the death blow o his career was
given.
So it Is with Bunker Hill monu
ment, a modest shaft as too altitude,
testifying to a seeming defeat, but la
reality to the birth of a nation.
These are but samples of a desire on
the part of all men to perpetuate the
memory of great deeds or of great
men to the generations yet unborn.
It is a natural craving, and men
are not to be criticised for It. For
even the Son of Man erected a monu
ment higher than all others, more
enduring than all others, more sig
nificant than all others, when he in-
J stltuted the Eucharist the feast of
love.
How did he do it? He did not
put his disciples to quarrying rock
with which to rear an imperishable
memorial. He gathered them around
him In an upper room, and partook
of a plain supper with them, and
then said, "Do this in remembrance
of Me."
And that monument stands for
the utter breaking down and de
struction of the spirit of cast among
men. At that table when the feast
was Inaugurated there were "many
men of many minds." It would be
difficult to find a company of men
more unlike in temperament and
disposition. Yet they were held to
gether as with bands of steel by
their allegiance to their Master.
They were all equal at that board.
Every man, in all time, finds hlm
Eelf represented among the apostles.
The doubter finds himself in
Thomas; the fiery, hot-headed,
quick-tempered man finds himself
In John, the Son of Thunder;
the opinionated, impulsive man in
Peter; the hard-headed, practical
man, desiring the first place in the
kingdom, in James; the dreamer in
Nathaniel Bartholomew; the busi
ness man in Matthew; the cautious,
far-seeing, careful, full of the sense
of difficulty man, Andrew; the slow
witted,,, but solid i and substantial
man, Philip the practical ; together
with the business economist Judas,
and Simon, the Canaanite, a man of
zeal, enthusiasm,lnaependence and
patriotism We are all there.
One would think to hear some
people talk that the,. Lord's Supper
was only for members of a particu
lar church, or particular members of
any one church, the' cream, as It
were, of devout people, the men and
women who have reached the calm
and hoiy heights of perfection. But
a glance at the lives of the men who
were present at the Inauguration of
the Eucharist, the men who are the
foundation stones upon which the
church Is built, will forever dispel
that Idea. One of them was a doubt
er, one was a devil. One of them
broke out into profanity and blas
phemy and denied his Lord before
the morning light, and one of them
sold him to his enemies for the price
of a dog. True, all but one of them,
were sincere, honest, Intended to do
right, and they overcame In time
their defects of character, with ' the
exception of one. But it ought to be
a comfort to men of this age who are
tempted and tried, and sometimes
fall even though they are church
members, to realize that they do
not necessarily forfeit their right
and title to partake of His supper
because they have slipped and stum
bled. The church glorifies the men
who gathered around that first Pas
chal feast; let it not too readily con
demn modern disciples who show by
tholr lives that they belong to the
same human brotherhood and are
tempted like as they were.
And so it is ever. Whether In
great cathedral or In barren chapel,
whether with ornate or with simple
services, whether In golden chalice
or with plain cup, the emblems are
received, we are all entitled to them,
and proclaim our loyalty and allegi
ance to the mighty founder when we
participate in His ordinance. The
rich and poor, the high . and low,
stand on the same plane when we
"remember Him."
And we must never forget that
thi3 - monument means victory and
not defeat. "Till I come," is the
thrilling watchword with which the
foundation and the capstone were
laid. It doe3 not mark the grave of a
elain hero; it is the stepping stone to
the throne of universal dominion. It
fs not a place to drop a tear over a
conquered warrior; it is a place to
hout a hallelujah chorus with a vic
torious chieftain. It Is not funeral
baked meats, it Is an antlclpatpry
banquet. It Is a constant testimony
to a redeemed earth and a prepared
heaven. '
It's unsafe to bury the dead past
better cremate it. . .
Thatksgiving Prcclamaticn.
The time of year 'aas coma wnen In
accordance with the wise custom of
our f'.irtfatherd, It becomes mv duty to
sat sside a special day of thanksgiving
and praipe to the Almighty because of
the blespings we hare received, ar.d ol
prayer that those blessings may be
continued. Yet another year of wide
spread wrilbemg has past. Never be
fore in o;ir history or In the history of
any other nation has a people e.j vei
more abounding material prosperity
than is uv.rs ; a prosperity so great that
it abou'a aroute in us no spirit of reck
less pride, and least of all a spirit ul
heediess disregard of our rsspjnsi-bilitie-;
but rather a sober sense o?
many bleingj and resolute purpose,
under Providence, not to forfeit them
by any acion of our own.
Material well being, indispensable
though it le, can never be anything
but the foundation of true national
greatuew and happiness. If we bulla
nothing upon this foundation, then our
national life will be as meaningless
and errpty as a house where only tbu
loucdaii-n has been laid. Upon our
material well being must ba built a
superstructure of individual and na
tional life lived in accordance with
the law ol the highest morality, or
else our prosperity itself will in the
long run turn out a curse instead of a
blessing. We should be reverent!
thankful for what we have received,
and earnestly bent upon turning ii
Into a means of grace and not ol des
tructiou.
Accordingly, I hereby set apart
Thursday, the 29th day of November
next, es a day of thanksgiving and
supplication cn which the people
shall meet in their homes or their
churches, devoutly acknowlege all
that has been given them, and pray
i hut they may in addition receive the
power to use these gilts aright.
In witness thereof, I have hereunto
-et my h .nd and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixted.
Done at the city ol Washington,
this 22nd day of October, in the year
uf our Lord one thousand nine hun
dred and six and of the independence
of the United fetates the one nuudrtd
tairty-first.
(Seal) Theodoee Roosevelt.
By the President :
Elihu Root.
Secretary of State.
Ycu try Eis Place.
Selected.
We presume that some people
think Eewspaper men are rerelstent
dunners. Let a famer place himself
in a similar position aud see if he wou'd
not do the tame. Suppose that he
raises a thorsand busbe's cf corn, and
his neighbor should tome and buy,
and the price wastme dollar or Ies.,and
say, "Iwill pay the amount in a fe
days." As the farmer dof s not want t
be email about the matter, he sayf
"All right." Another cotres the same
way, and another, until the "whole
thousand bushels of corn is trusted to
a thousand different people and o one
of the different prrsons concerns him
self about it, lor H is a small amount
they owe the farmer and ol course that
will not help him an4. He does not
realize that the farmer has frittered
away his entire crop ol corn, that its
value is due in a thousand little drib
lets, and that he is seriously embarrass
ed in his bu-iness, because hia debtors
treat it as a little mailer. But if all
would pay him promptly, which they
could as well as not, it would be a large
sum to the farmer and enable bitn to
carry on his business without difficulty.
A Fonr-Slory Farm.
Columbia Herald.
From Howard county comes the
tale ol a lour-story farm.
Charles Ridgeway is its owner, and
the farm is located near Fayette. Mr.
Ridgeway has a fine clover field. Be
neath the clover is one of the nobest
beds ot coal, and underneath the coal
is a fine bed of shale, from which ex
cellent building brick are made. In
and above the clover is an apple
orchard, on which there is an abun
dant crop of applet. This make a
four-story farm shale, coal, clover,
apples and shows hew the wealth is
piled up in Missouri.
MADE HAPPY FOR LIFE.
Great happiness came into the home
of S. C. Blair school superintendent, at
St. Albans, W. Va. when his little
daughter was restored from the dread
ful complaint he names. He savs :"My
little daughter had St. Vitus' Dance,
which yielded to no treatment but grew
stealily worse until as a last resort we
tried Electric Bitters ; and I rejlce to
say, three bottles effected a complete
cure."Quick sure cure for nervous com
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THE OLD FOLKS AT H01V1E
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MR. S. D.FOSS, 116 S. E. 6th street,
Minneapolis, Minn., writes:
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"I recommend It. to all my friends."
Mrs. Magdalena Winkler, Route 4,
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Manalin have saved my life.
"When 1 wrote to you the first time,
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bo poor that 1 did not
expect to live through
the winter, but now I
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I canuot praise vour
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T. T. MarlTland. a well-novn
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Our
Stock
Was never so large, and
for variety it is unexcell
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Precious Stones
in combination with the
Diamonds, making OUR
STOCK the most attrac
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An up-to-date line of Cut
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Xmas
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"Wedding
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"I find that in my en-o Pemrn is a
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J. W. Burroughs,
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Any person having backache,
kidney pains or bladder trouble
who will take two or three
Pine-ules upon retiring at night
shall be relieved before morning.
The medicinal virtues of the
crude gums and resins ob
tained from the Native Pice
have been recognized by t!ie rr.ed:c2l pro
fession for centuries. In Pine-ules we offci
all of the virtues of the Native Pine that
are of value in relieving all
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English Kitchen,
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Established 1890.
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Fish, Oysters and Crabs in
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We also ha ve a few nicely
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