North Carolina Newspapers

Good Advertising Is to lUisincss a.!:. it Steam i5 lo -Machinery, that jrirrtt propelling power, 'l itis paper givos results. COMMONWEAl Good Advertisers IVo th,?o columns for result.. An advertisement in this paper will re:U'h a good class f jioopic. t. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. YOL. XXIII. New Series Yak 10.-6-18 'Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1907. NUMBER 7. . I II II II JL ini. r ? 3 I DO YOU GET UP- WITH A LAME BACK ? JUdney Trouble Makes You Miserable. Almost everybody who reads the news papers S:; sure to know of the wonderfui cures made by Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, J the great kidney, liver aim uiauuer remedy. e It is the creat mcci- ca! triumph of the nine jjljl teenth century; dis- coverea alter years cf T-a-vrj aiciiunc researcn ty ' Dr. Kilmer, the emi - r . i'cr.t kidney and blad- onucnu.h' successful in Drorn.-K- nirino '' ma back, l.idney. biadrisr- uric acid trou tj'.cs nnU Blight's D.si5e, which is the wore, for: a cf hfdrcy rouble. D. . Kil:T!r's Swamp-Root is not rcc vmrncndr,i for every thing but if you have kid ncy, liver cr bladder troubls. It 'will be found h-u t-e remedy yen vr-L It has been tasted W so man. vp.y, n hospital woik, in private j:raotSc-, arr-ing the helpless too poor to pur ;lar3 f'.f and has proved so successful in .v.y c.i.,0 that a special arrangement hss en made by which al! readers of this paper who have not already ti'.td it, may have a -..r.-.p!e bottl?, sen free by mail, also a book ;c!Hr. rv;';e about Swamp-Root and how to finu c:t if you have kidney or bladder trouble. When writing mention reading this cenerour offer in this paper and rCt'.V" send your address to ifSSSrfeSTJ!, Dr. Kilmer & Co..Eir,f-MaS-'fl bamton, N. Y. The JjggMig regular fifty cent and Home of swamp-Root, dollar sizes are sold by all good druggists. Don't make any mistake, 1 nit re meml'cr the name, Swamp Root, Dr. Kilmer's .Swamp Root, and the address Binglmniton, X. Y., on every bottle. 0. F. SMITH, M. D. Physician and Surgeon, Scotland Xeck, X. C. Of nee formerly occupied ly Dr. Hassell J)R. J. P. WIMBERLEY, PhvU'Ian and Surgeon, Scotland Xeck, X. C. Oflice on Depot Street. 0R. A. C. LIVERMON, DEXTIST. gP Office up stairs in White--fflxf head r.uil.lmg. Office hours from 9 to 1 o'clock and 2 to 5 o'clock. Y A. t ALBION DUNN, Attorneys at Law, Scotland Xeck, X. C. Practice wherever their ser vices are required. H. W. MIXON, Refracting Optician, YVotoh Maker, Jeweler, En graver, Scotland Xeck, X. C. J McBRYDE WEBB, Attorney and Counselor at Law, 210-2-21 Atlantic Trust Building j Norfolk, Va. Notary Public. Bell Phone 374 gDWARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Halifax, X. C. Money Loaned on Farm Lands yiLL H. JOSPY, General Insurance Agent, Scotland Xeck, X. C. Day & Hedges, Livery Buggies Harness Whips E o b e s Tarboro, North Carolina t:K t;Gk..'tU..i icu itUyvjOio A Bnsy Medioina for Bwj Peop'.o. Tringa GolJ6ii Hea.th and tjec-ved Vigor. A 'D'-ciflc for Cnrtipr.t irn, In ticetion. Livo pv. 't Ki-lncy Trouble-1, H:: p'.-. s. Ilczt-mi, Impun i'U-l, Rid Rrea'h. r!-i ;s'i To rels, Hoadach rn I H.ncdcaclm. 1 " V '.:y I!' ;nfsi;i Tea in tat l't form, 85 CPCii a hex. (N'liuine mado bj IIiiLiLTSii Dfiuo Company, Madison, Wis CCL0EN NUGGETS FOR S;.LIC;V PEGPI P B KIL-L COUGH AND CURE THE LUHCS Dr. Eting's WITH v UKSUisr i turn rnce FOR I OUGHSand 50c & $1.00 itAllMIHl.tftll r - 7ULU rreo cnai. Surest and Quickest Cure for all THROAT and LUNG TROUB LES, or MONEY BACK. IvTk- !5H i THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS. Observations of Passing Events. While the Legislature hammers away at the railroads to get passenger rates reduced the disastrous wreeks continue, and many of the peopl e Still There Are Wrecks. reduction of passenger rate. And the poor unfortunate fellows who do not make corn and hay enough for their horses and meat for their families ' are still paying high freight rates. Perhaps sometime the Legislature will I get hold of th? right end of the string. The snow and sleet which covered the earth and loaded the trees to breaking last week; called back old time winter weather which our fathers and grand prevailing Old Time Winter Weatiier. winter with freezes, snows and sleet forshadows a good Crop year. So a J farmer said a few days ago while the sleet was on the ground that some ' how he felt like 1907 will be a good crop year. Let us all hope it may be so. Mr. Gilbert T. Stephenson, of Northampton cotinty, secretary of the Peanut Crov.ers Association, is making strong effort to have a fine pea 5,000 Yards of Peanuts. belt throuh the Rich Square Time3, and says that to carry out his plans for the peanut display it will take seventy five bags of the best peanuts and five thousand yards of strung peanuts. He proposes that two-kernel peanuts be strung length wise, as they will show better that way and it will not take near so many as if strung cross-wise. Mr. Stephenson's idea is unique and it will be a means of calling attention to the great field pro duct of which a few counties in Virginia and North Carolina have a monop ly. We believe the Peanut Growers Association mainly has to do with the large Virginia peanuts, but it includes several counties in North Carolina which may profit by the work. "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures cf silver" And truly have the people and the press of the State so regarded the words of Words Fitly Spoken. eral Assembly. Many have seen the beautiful and pleasing comments by the press of the State, and by others, concerning the fine spirit which prompted her to decline the pension. Even if she needs the money the many pleasant things said about her and the new hold her character and life now have upon the people of the State, go a long way towards supply ing her mind and memory with that which will serve her well in her declining years. She can but feel assured that the people of the State love her all the more for her noble sentiments expressed in her letter to Maj. Graham. The sunset of her life will be the more golden because of her patriotic action in consideration of those who need the money more than she does. From time to time the question comes up in one way or another wheth er or not there is enthusiasm in the work of our public schools. And as Is There School Enthusiasm? is not very marked except amongst some of the leading State officials and those who have much to do with public school affairs. Real enthusiasm in school work must obtain in the schools, amongst the pupils, amongst the teachers and amongst the parents. Whatever may be the enthusiasm higher up, it can not much affect the real school interests unless it can in some way be transmitted to the schools themselves. It rests largely with the teachers to create a good enthusiasm with their school work, and their capacity for creating such enthusiasm depends upon how much they love their work. If a teacher loves the work for the work's sake and for the good to be accomplished, then a good enthusiasm may spring up; but if the teacher is attracted to the work simply for the salary, then there is little chance for enthusiasm in the work. It has often been given out by educators that the man of few books and they well mastered is a safer and sounder scholar than the man of many The Reading Fad. best and most useful fund of knowledge. To be sure, it is not often i that any one knows too much ; but sometimes the long list of books which one has read leads him to the false conculsion that having read a great ' many books he must, of course, be better informed than one who has not read so broadly. And while so many people read so nearly nothing at all it might seem out of place to give any warning against too much reading; yet it is a question now whether or not really there is a sort of craze for read ing which amounts to a fad. It is creeping upon child life as well as into the lives of some grown up people. Naturally when parents perceive that their children have a taste for reading they like to encourage it in the hope of helping the children become intelligent and bright, and this is the prop er view to take of the matter ; but even as good a thing as reading may be overdone. The observation has been made in many places that children who have access to an unlimited number of books sometimes neglect their daily important studies at school to struction beyond the good precepts tail. This is a matter that parents and teachers should look after careful ly. No child should be permitted to neglect his text books, which contain the instruction which will fit him for life, for the charms and fascinations of story books, however moral and elevating in their tendencies. The ground work of the real education should be looked after in the childhood years, admitting and encouraging enough of good reading to make the combination as nearly perfect as possible. To one who has made much observation in these things it is not hard to find examples of young men and young women with good opportunities for thorough education caught by the reading fad and have either stopped off real study altogether or have made a botch of what they might have made a splendid success. Even college students who have access to good libraries fall into the seri ous blunder of using their reading opportunities to the abuse of what are higher and more important opportunities for the time the opportunities of grounding themsel ve s in the principles of education through a thorough knowledge of text books. While children should be encouraged to be well read, reading as a fad should be guarded against. A liquid cold relief with a laxative principle which drives out the cold through a copious action of the bowels, a healing principle which lingers in the throat and stops the cough that is Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup. Safe and sure in its actions; pleasant to take; and conforms to National Pure Food and Drug Law. Contains no opiates. Sold by K. T. Whitehead & Co. would feel mors interested in measures pro posing "more safety in travel than they do in - fathers told us about. There is a opinion with most farmers that a nut display at the Jamestown Exposition. He lays his plans before the people of the peanut Mrs. Stonewall Jackson in declining the $100 a month pension proposed by the present Gen often as the question comes up there is some one to suggest that enthusiasm in public school s books poorly mastered. It is not the man of the most varied reading that every time has the read books which give no special in laid down in the pretty stories they de Your money refunded if after using three-fourths (i) of a tube of ManZan, you are dissatisfi ed, return the balance of the tube to your druggist, and your money will be cheerfully re turned. Take advantage of this offer. Sold by E. T. White head & Co., Scotland Neck, Leggett Drug Co., Hobgood. Most Dangerous Occupations. I "There are two avowedly danger ! ous occupations, in which, in spite of j all safeguards, a man takes his life I in his hand every time he goes to I work and in which the concomitant risk must bV4 reckoned against," writes Arthur li Reese oh "Oui In dustrial Juggernaut." "These are the manufacture of dynamite and gunpowder and submarine tunnel ing. In railroading, mining, and all other trades, dangerous though they be, the peril can be minimized by proper precautions to a greater ex tent than is posfiibl in tbs two oc cupations. "Dynamite is death-dealing from its making to its use. In a blasting powder plant men work eye to eye with death? -ith faepp Kobr nd drawn. Every moment death stares them in the face. No man ever be comes accustomed to the terror the majority quit after a few weeks. High wages tempi thehi to enter, but not to stay. They lift things gingerly and put them down with the utmost care; they seem afraid even to step briskly. No one ever whistles in a powder mill. "In the six big tunnel-construction jobs in and about New York on an average a man per day is killed. A cave-in of rock or sand or mud en gulfs the gang, or a blast of dyna mite blows them to pieces, or they are overcome by the 'bands', the terrible disease due to compressed air. Toiling feverishly in three-hour shifts under a tremendous air pres sure of three atmospheres, the 'sand hogs' deep down under the rivers face a thousand dangers in order that the pressing problems of trans portation may be solved for the great metropolis. The 'bends' is not al ways fatal, but it catches a large number of the men and doubles them tip like jack-knives. In the worst cases it kills with a horrible death." Everybody's. Prohibition in United States. Prohibitionists should rejoice over the fact just made public that 30,- 000,000 Americans, more than one- third of the total number, are now living under prohibition laws. Tex as, Arkansas and Tennessee are al most entirely prohibition, and other States are making what the Associ ated Prohibition Press calls "pro gress." Figures don't lie. of course, but these are difficult to reconcile with the enormous increase in the amount of spirituous, vinous and malt liquors consumed by the Unit ed States. Can it be that only two thirds of the people of the United States drink all those millions of dollars worth of beer and whiskey every year? The truth is not so hard to discov er amid the perplexities. If a third of the country has passed prohibition laws the reason is that it does not approve of the open saloon. Exper ience in Maine, Iowa and other pro hibition States has shown that pro hibitory laws do not decrease the amount of liquor consumed in the territory they cover, but they do lessen the injurious influence of the saloon. The saloon, when placed under the ban of the law, does not try to dominate the community, but is glad to exist in darkness. Ameri ca's bill for liquid refreshments is by far the greatest it has to pay every year, and it steadily increases in spite of all the fervid agitation of the prohibitionists. But at the same time the saloon is rapidly losing its power, which so long has been evil in political and moral affairs in the United States. Chicago Journal. The Importance of a Postage Stamp. At the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at Washington, each sepa rate postage stamp is handled by more than two hundred people be fore it comes into the purchaser's hands. To deliver the letter on which it is pasted to the addressee requires the work, on an average, of nearly a hundred thousand more, in cluding the men who made the letter box into which'you dropped it, built the postoffice where it was sorted, laid the rails over which it was car ried, made the sack the postman uses, and fashioned the hundreds of other accessories needed. It gives one a realizing sense of his impor tance in the world of to-day when one considers that he can enlist all these men and all this work for only two cents. The King's Own. Hunting for Trouble. "I've lived in California 20 years, and am still hunting for trouble in the way of burns, sores, wounds, boils cuts, sprains, or a case of piles that Buck len's Arnica Salve won't quickly cure," writes Charles Walters, of Alleghany Sierra Co. No use hunting, Mr. Wal ters ; it cures every case. Guaranteed at E. T. Whitehead & Co. 's drugstore. RICHES IN MEXICAN SUBSER. Fortunes Being Made Out of 3 Once i Despised Shrub. The excitement which followed the discovery of oil in Tex? i i w years ago has its parallel in the craze Which bxi?tf thronsrhout northern Mexico over tne discovery uia, u:? ; m 1 1 l i-V I l: ( guayule shrub contains valuable rubber properties. The utilization ,of the shrub is no longer an experiment. Mcr" than $3,000,000 has been invested in the erection of guayule rubber factories in this region in the last eighteen montns and tne investment oi sov eral millions in the industry is in prospect. The guayulo shrub cqvers many milUoil p.res of Jpnd upon the plat- eau of northern iviexico afit? hhL tat extends into southwest Texas for a distance of 150 mile3. The shrub grow to a height of about four feet ; It L;Lj beCn hwetofora considered' ir a nuisance to tne lanu-owner, as interfered with cattle grazing. It grows upon land worthless for agn-; cultural purposes. This land had very little value before the discovery was inaue th?t tw tayule shrub was worth something. Much of the land could have been purchased for thirty cents an acre two years ago. To-day each acre of the land is producing at least two j anoint our f riend3 bef0rehand for tons of guayule, which is selling for ' their burial- post-mortem kindness as high as $1.00 Mexican currency or does not cheer the burdened spirit. $50 American money ii ion - The Fowers on the coffin cast no fra revenue from one acre of the land is ronM T:vwtv vr thp woarv therefore equivalent to $100 Ameri- can money. Many ranchmen who . wers land poo- ar now iVh. j Raising Cotton in Texas. The despised shrub has become an ( A Texan writlrng th TWlaa News object of the greatest attention. ; tells of hig experience in raising coj Much care is taken in cutting the , ton this year which was in the na growth so that the shrub may re- ture of the phenomenal. The owner produce itself from its roots. It is of a gmall farm which he cultivates said it will bear cutting every himselff pi?r,td part of it in cotton. years- On a certain three-ar. e h? ,'ntd HJT 1 J .1- J A. many lana-owners maue contract with guayule rubber manufacturers for the sale of the shrub at from $30 '' i rw. ! I to yv a ton. inis was severm months ago, in the early days of the excitement. Few sales are now be- j ing made for less than $80 M e xican j money a ton. I Francisco Madero of Parras, Mex ico, is the owner of 4,000,000 acres of guayule producing land. He is said to be the largest individual land owner in northern Mexico. He esti mates that his land will produce at the first cutting not less than 5,000, 000 tons of guayule. At $50 gold a ton the shrub would bring him $250,000,000. In the opinion of experts who have gone over much of this land it will yield at least two tons of the shrub to the acre. That being true, its value is $400,000,000. The product of the guayule shrub is not the equal of Para rubber, but it is valuable for many uses, particu larly in the manufacture of automo bile tires. The manufacture of these tires has caused an enormous in crease in the demand for rubber. One ton of the guayule shrub will Chew What You Know What You km There is real pleasure in chewing: the best tobacco grown where the best tobacco grows in the famous Piedmont Country. Only choice selections of this well-matured and thoroughly cured tobacco is used in making SCHNAPPS. That's why SCHNAPPS and others of the Reynold's brands, as shown by the Internal Revenue statistics for a fiscal year, made the wonderful growth of six and one quarter million pounds, or a net gain of one-third of the entire increased consumption of chewing and smoking tobaccos in the United States. Evidently, chewers cannot resist theflavorand they cheer SCHNAPPS because SCHNAPPS cheers them more than any other chewing to bacco, and every man that chews SCHNAPPS passes the good thing along one chewer makes other chewers until the Jact is now es tablished that there are many more Sold at 50c. per yjj " J- REYNOLDS produce about 250 pounds of rubber. When the manufacture of rubber from this new source was first begun the product sold for seventy cents gold a pound, one tor?'" extraction bringing $175 gold. This price has not been maintained, however, but the independent manufacturers say that it will be reached again soon. Be Kind to the Uwivj. "Do not keep the alabaster boxes kf your love and tenderness sealed up until your ifift'd r dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak i approving, cheering words wnue v-,. riiu rA moo llltll 1 'VUl " - tl Wl lav a a U11U 111LU happier by them things you mean to say when they are gone, gay before they g0 The flowera j you mean to send for the5r coffins j ift brjghten and sweeten their . homes berort vaVt, them If T i- oiw L,;- ! awA-y full of fragrant perfumes of , .t a flpr I i "V" P I,"f aiiccuun, whiui uicjr intena to1 Vr'-yV ovPrmy dead body, j wouId rather they 0ld bn? them now in my weary and troubled ' houra and open them that j may ,be rofreshed and cheered, while I j them j would rather have ii ; pian'i CofSff without a flower, a ;funeral without an eufe than a 1 life without the sweetness of love i 0j .mT1ovv Tt m lram tr i uiiU a." lllaUVtl F -- vw a.wwa grance way." Selected. o Rfi0 po.JTUj3 cr evca 500-i-;ind bale, The rows were iaid out five ; an(J half feet art ran north and gouth H alsj0 relates that cotton panted in rows running east and west.ty r"t produce "nearly so much" as the cotton wllh rows run nine north and south. This agricul tural note, while in a measure ex plaining the bountiful cotton crop of Texas this yar, also offers a sug gestion that it would be we'll to plant cotton in rows running north and south since by this method the grow ing cotton get3 the benefit of the most sunshine. Cotton Journal. A Valuable Lesson. "Six years ago I learned a valuable lesson," writes John Flcasant, of Mag nolia Ind. "I then began taking Dr. King's Xcw Life Pills, and the longer I take them the better I find them." They please everybody, (iuaranteil by E. T. Whitehead & Co., druggists The coincidence of Great Britain and Senator Tillman apologizing the same week, tends to give color to Horace Johnson's predictions that more earthquakes may be expected at an early date. Hartword Times. w pound in 5c. Cuts. Strictly TOBACCO COMPANY. The Jar of Coughing Hammer blows, steadily ap plied, break the hardest rock. Coughing, day after day, jars and tears the throat and lungs until the healthy tissues give way. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral stops the coughing, and heals the torn membranes. The best kind cf testimonial "Sold tor over lty years." M Mde J. C. Ayr Co.. IawTX, Km. A A.to manufacturer of A.io ntanurao iMjersl SARSAPARILLA. PIUS. ALT VIGOR. W ti.va no ccreU I Wa puft.Ufc tbo formula of all our medicine. iASS: - Those Ussle3.t Questions, Mow m?.ny of our word are abso lutely siipct'fltHius, serving no end but the waste of time. A man stood before a mirror, his fac'C vM lathered and his rezor in hand. Income his wife,' he looked at hini, and imjuired, "Are you shav ing?" "No," he replied, fiercely, "I'm blacking the kitchen range. Where are you-out driving or at the mati ns?" Woman's Hon:'; Companion. Rising From the Grave. A pnni;'.'"nt maiiiif:i',tiirT, Win. .A. I-YrtwHI. f I.i:c:-;. N. C, iclafcr : iiii4 ivisinikall -;; rincc. lie .: : " After laking le.'s than tliiti l( tit f ElccttiV IVtHci-, I feel like one rising from tin- grave. My trouMe is Uri.ulit ' disease, in the I )i:il f " t:ig 1 fully leleive Fleet rie Hitters will inre ni' permanently, for il lias already slopji'd the liver and Madder eoinplieat ion.s iiii 1 hove tn iiiMed ine for years." i :i ii t druggist.-. id K. T. Whitehead & Co., i'l Vc uMv "'V 11,-r Husband -"If a man steal.- r.o matter what it is he will live t regret ;t. His Wiff - During our courtship yiu Uoed to btval kissed froHl rne . Her 1 1 usband Wei 1 , you heard what 1 said. - Chicago Daily News. Neighbors Got Tooled. "I was literally coughing atb. and had heroine ton myself to weak to leave my U ci; ami neignnors pienu ieo than I would never leave it alive; hnt they got fooled, for thank lx;to!od, I whs induced to try lr. King's New Dis covery. It took just four one dollar hottles to completely run' th' cough and restore me to good pound health." writes Mrs. Fva I'nciipher, of ('rover town, Stark Co., Ind. This King of cough and cold cures, and healer of throat and lung, is guaranteed by J". T. W hitehead iV Co., Druggist-. . . . it I-., i "You don't mean to tell called Jim Jelfries a liar?" me you "That's exactly what I did." "What did he say?" "I don't know. He was in San Francisco at the time. 1 was in Chicago." Cleveland Prets. About and Chewing chewers and pounds of tobacco chevcd, to the population, in those States where SCHNAPPS tobacco was first sold than there are in the States where SCHNAPPS has not yet been offered to the trade. SCHNAPPS is like a cup of fine Java coffee, sweetened just enough to bring out its natural, stimulating qualities. SCHNAPPS pleases all classes of chewers: the rich, be cause they do not find a chew that really pleases them better at any price ; the poor, because it is more economical than the large 10c. or 15c' plugs and they get their mon ey's worth of the real snappy, stim ulating flavor so appreciated by to bacco lovers. All imitations con tain much more sweetening than SCHNAPPS. They are made that way to hide tjoor tobacco improp- , erly cured. For the man who chews tobacco for tobacco s sake, there is no chew like SCHNAPPS. . IOc. and 15c. Plugs WtasSor. - Salem. N. C.