North Carolina Newspapers

Good Advertising Is to Business what Steam is to Machinery, that great propelling 1 lower. Tlii. paper gives results. Commonw: Good Advertisers I'sc these columns for results. An advertisement in this paper will roach a good elaas of people. IT if il H M E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXiH. New S Yd. 10.--6-18 aExcdsior" is Our Motto Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1907, NUMBER 17. Thousands Have Kidney Trouble and Don't Know it. How To Find Out. Fill a bottie or common glass rvi'th your water and let it stand twer.'y-four hours; a T k -. , sediment cr set JL) --r' tiin indicates an vi- v .?qrp, unhealthy condi Tfi ''-fAyf n of th kid- nys; it it stains your linen it is evidence of kid ney trouble; tco frequent desire to pass it or pain in v convincing proof that the kidneys and blad are o.:t of order. What ta Co. There is comfort in the knowledge so cf'.en expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Jioot, the great kidney remedy fulfills every -vish in curing rheumatism, pain in the v ack, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part cf the urinary passage. It corrects inability to hold water and scalding pain in passing or bad effects foilowirg use of liquor, vineorbcer, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity tf being compelled to go often during the day, and to get up many times during the night. The mild and the extra ordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon xeahzeri. It stands the highest for its won derful cures of ths most distressing cases. If you need a medicine you should have the .best. Sold by druggists in 50c. and$l. sizes. You may have a same'e bottle cf this wonaenui discovery and a book that tells i more about it. both sent absolutely free by mail. address Dr. Kilmer & Homo of Swamp-Root. Co.. Binchamton. N Y. Whp.n writinof mn. lion reading this sr.r.erous offer in this paper. Don't 'make any mistake, but re member the name, Swamp Koot, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, anil the address Binghamtoa, X. Y. , on every bottle. 0 f. SMITH, M. D. Physician and Surgeon, Scotland Neck, N. C. O.'hce formerly occupied by Dr. Ilassell J)R. J. P. WIMBERLEY, Physician and Surgeon, Scotland Neck, N. C. Office on Depot Street. . 3. C. LSVERMON, DENTIST. (Mice up stairs in "White head Building. Office hours from 0 to 1 o'clock and 2 to 5 o'clock. H. W. M1X0N, Refracting Optician, "Watch Maker, Jeweler, En graver, Scotland Neck, N. C. 9 McBRYDE WEBB, Attorney and Counselor at Law, 219-221 Atlantic Trust Building Norfolk, Ya. Notary Public. Bell Phone 374 gDWARD" L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Halifax, N. C. Money Loaned on Farm Lands 3LL H. JOSEY, General Insurance Agent, Scotland Neck, N. C. Day & Hedges, Livery Buggies Harness Whips Robes Tarboro, North Carolina . ky fountain Tec 'Nuggets i Bosy KsdioiM for Bc-y Feop'.e. :..-:3sc3 Golden Health aad Ltsewed Vigor, i -ciilc f r C.-:':,':;-!im, In lirotioD. Live i .'"i'ine TrouV.r.-. ri:np!es. Kir enr, Impun !. Bii-l Breatii. M-JTCirti I'ovro'.s, Healaclv ' i'.r icurhu. It's Rocky I.Io:irtnin Ten. in tab f-.rm, 8T cents a box. (irt;jina m:iJo b -Lunxnii Dno Company, M.i.iison, Wis L!)HN NUGGETS Fin SALLOW PEOW and CU'tli the LUNGS! WITH a" w Discovery 0NSUMPT1CN Price OUGHS and 50c & $1.00 Free Trial. -VGLDS fj Guuaatsed for ail THHOAT and h y.Ulia THCUBX.ES, cr MONEY i-wu-mnraai UvJiiH SYRUP KE!iMSDY5S LAXATIVE HONEYTAR for r THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS. Observations of Passing Events; Eastern Carolina has suffered a great financial loss in the destruction of truck by the cold weather. All kinds of truck have been injured, but The Great Loss in Truck. half as much this year as usual, and I of dollars. V ith favorable seasons Eastern Carolina can always realize i great profit on truck, and the Jamestown Exposition this year makes the Norfolk market quite advantageous to a good season they would have realized It will sometimes happen that newspapers are caught by a fake story. Perhaps no persons at all, considering the many things and difficulties It Will Sometimes Happen. j they say of their own knowledge or sometimes are caught napping. Only last week a number of papers pub lished a story that a young physician in the western part f the1 State had killed his wife, but they had to eerrrxt the story next day. It was a little difficult to see how such a story without foundation could get into the papers, but it did. And the papers which published it were, so far as we have observed, entirely blameless. It was simply dri instance in which some of the most watchful were imposed upon. By the time this issue of The Commonwealth reaches its readers, some of them perhaps will be starting to Norfolk to be present at the opening Better Carry a Lurch cr Two. of tM jm.estn Exposition. From what has appeared in the papers and the general talk about how the Norfolk hotels will probably attempt to "guoge" whom they may, it might be well to take along a lunch or two. You know one can get lodging sometimes without "feeding;" And th6se cooi days and nights are thus far quite favorable to the lunch idea for the first day or two out. In all earnestness, it would be serving right those who should attempt to extortion on visitors. It is hoped that all this agitation- about vary high rates at hotels in Norfolk during the exposition may blow over md that the visitors will find things agreeable and cheap enough. It will not do to say that there has been notHng of the probability of very high rates, for there has been a good deal of it. There has been much said and written and printed about it, and here the adage holds good that "where there is so much smoke there must be some fire." A number of young Scotchmen have come ovr to this Country recently to find work. Some of them went to Raleigh and from there to different points in ittey Have the Men, We the says that went to Work. jrove. l hey are said to be very clever vent to Mecklenburg said that many knew they could get work and pay their way as he did. He said that if this country has the work his country has the boys. The willingness of these educated Scotch boys to work ought to be suggestive to some lads in this country. There is plenty of work lying all about us for every one. The trouble with some people is they member once to have come upon a young fellow whom we knew, and he seemed to be in idleness. We said to him: "What are you doing these days, ." He answered: "I'm can't find work to do." And almost the box car in which he was standing aborers, and the owners of those fields for every honest days's work he would Some people have commenced to must come. Trade conditions have the past V I i I There be a Panic, and have to be When? catch up. about every twenty years, and so the tween 1909 and 1913. A writer in Collier's makes some interesting obser vations concerning the probable panic as follows: "Upon the theory of periodical crises it is not yet time for had such disasters beginning in 1819, fhe normal interval between them is has been sixteen years, between 185? War furnished ample explanation of the curtailment in that case. Accord ing to experience we should not expect another severe crisis until some time between 1909 and 1913. There ha3 usually been a mild reaction from the prevailing prosperity about half-way between two great panics. We had one in 1884, a little over half-way from 1873 to 1893. The correspond ing break in the present period of good after the panic of 1893. According to nine or ten years longer. Those who abnormal conditions they think they see upon the Roosevelt agitation or the Harriman revelations, or some other trouble of our times which pre vious periods of disturbance did not have. But previous periods had troubles of their own. For fifteen years before the panic of 1893 there was an era of silver inflation, which day than any of our difficulties with In the United States prosperity is largely dependent upon the state of the crops. The Baring panic of 1890 would have brought on our panic of 1893 two years ahead of time if the disaster harvests of 1891. The present crop prospects, therefore, aref of vast im portance in estimating the prospects for 1907." . "Pneumonia's EcIy Work had so seriously aflected my right lung, ' ' writes Mrs. Fannie Connor, of Rural Uonte 1. Georgetown, Tenrt., "that I coughed continuously night and day and j the neighbors prediction consump tion seemed inevitable, until my hus band brought home a bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery, which in my case proved to be the only real cough cure and restorer of weak, sore lungs." When all other remedies utterly fail.you may still win in the battle against lung and throat troubles with New Discov ery, the real cure. Guaranteed by E. T. Whitehead & Co., druggists. 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. the greatest loss perhaps has been in straw berries. The crop will probably not be worth this will be a loS3 of many thousands the truckers in this region. With mueh proftti with whiph th have to Contend, are more careful than newspaper editors about what through other informants; but they the State. The Charlotte Observer one went toMecklenburg county, one Wilkesbord and another to Cedar and well educated, lhe one who Scotch lads would come here if they can't quite see the work. We re not doing anything right now. I in any direction he would look from there were broad fields inviting: would gladly have paid the fellow do. predict the next panic and think it made such demands on capital during few years, some think that there will a hold up in order for capital to Panics are figured out to be due next one will be due sometime be a great industrial depression. We in 1837, in 1857, in 1873, and in 1893. twenty years. The shortest hitherto and 1873, and the effects of the Civil times came in 1903, just ten years precedent that ought to last us for say it will lay the blame for the seamed worse to the financiers of that corporations would have appeared had not been stayed by the bonanza For Over Sixty Years Mrs. Winslow,s Soothing Syrup has been used for sixty vears bv millions of mothers for their chidren while teeth ing with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cure wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoae. It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. Sold by druggists in every part of the world. Twentv -five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow,s Soothing Syrup. Guaranteed under the Food and Drug Act, June 30th, 190G, Serial Number 1097. Spring-Soiiy. By Miss Lacy WheelocV. Old mother earth woke up from And found she was so cold and bare: The winter was over, the spring was near, . And she had not a dress to wear! ''Alas!" she sighed with grtat dis may, "Oh, where shall I get my clothes, There's not a place to buy a suit, . And a dresimaker no one knows." 'I'll make y3u a dress," Said the" springing grass, Just looking above the ground; "A dress of green of the loveliest sheen, To cover you all around." "And we," said the dandelions gay, "Will dot it with yellow bright;" "I'll make it a fringe," said forget-me-not, "Of blue, very soft and light." "We'll embroider the front." said the violets, "With a lovely purple hue;" "And we," said tile" rOses, "will make you a crown Of red, jewelled over with dew;" "And we'll be your gems," said a voice from the shade, "Where the ladies' ear-drops live Orange is a color for ally queri, And the best that we have to give." Old Mother Earth was thankful and glad, And she put on her dress so gay; And thftt is the reason, Hiy little ones, She is looking so lovely to-day. Our Dumb Animals. The Panama Mosquito. The famous Panama mosquito with a record of perhaps a greater number of deaths than that of the late conflict between the Japanese and Russians; has been conquered. Joe Mitchell Chappie tells about it in his great story which will appear in the National Magazine for April. The following is a paragraph from his story: While we were there, it was re ported by one of the guests at the ho tel that a "mosquito" had been dis covered, and immediately Inspector Le Prince began to think of sending for the lizards to eat it up. Much has been said of the insect pests on the Isthmus. I was not there long enough to gain much experience in that line, yet I did discover that resi dents have to guard against the white antSj which rapidly destroy all articles of soft wood. It sometimes happens that a chair will look all right until someone sits upon it, when down it comes with a crash, having been completely honey-combed by the white ants. Soft wood is often perforated by these pests so that it is a mere sponge, easily penetrated by the finger. For this reason, hard wood only should be used for furni ture and other articles. Yes, the tropics have their terrors as well as their luxuries. The negroes have to be careful of their feet, because of the "chigoe," or "jigger," which works its way under the nails of the toes and hands, giving more or less pain, and likely to cause dangerous ulcers. The army ants will encircle a building and go right through it, if not barred out, eating everything that has life, and have even been known to devour an unprotected baby. They enter a house and re main a few hours cleaning out rats, mice and cockroaches, and then leave as suddenly as they arrived but no living creature that they can over whelm escapes them. Points About the Pulse. (Chicago Journal.) The normal pulse has a wide range, but is always faster in females than males and steadily declines from birth to death. Eminent physicians have thought it possible to tell a per son's sex and age by pulse alone. The average rate at birth is 160 beats a minute in girls and 150 in boys; at the age of four or five, 110 and 100; m maidens and youths, 95 and 90; in mature women and men, 80 and 72, and elderly women and men, 60 and 50. In one recorded case the pulse of a healthy man of eighty-seven was only thirty a min ute. The pulse varies with stature, position of body, exercise and health, and in disease it has been known to fall to fourteen a minute. In the treatment of piles it becomes necessary to have the remedy put up in such a form that it can be applied to the parts affected. ManZan Pile remedy is encased in a collapsible tube with nozzle attached. It cannot help but reach the spot. Relieves blind bleed ing, itching, and protruding piles. oO cents with nozzel guaranteed. Try it. Sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co., Scot land Neck, Leggett Durg Co., Hobgdod. A NEW ERA; The Present Tendencies in the South PARlilNG AND FARM LANDS. (T S. C. Mitehoil in kind Words.) As the South 1$ dominanlly agri cultural, the fiist tfi'tJcy w rno tice has to do with farming. The greatest single material problem be fore our people at the present time is the rlphrhrit of the land. Ow ing to the more than three ceiituHes of slave labor, ignorant and shiftless, the fields of the South became im poverished. So long as virgin lands re mained to b6 cultivated, this waste of our basal resources from which IT?n' kind must draw all natural wealth continued. Of these the sea does the competition1 offered by the fat prairie lands fcf the grr'at Northwfcst, and the change from the slave to free labor, has compelled the South to seek the largest possjble returns from th.p efforts expended upon rh farms. All of this harks back to the fertility of the field. "There are," says J. J. Hill, in his message to American farmers, "just four sources from which mankind must draw sill riatural wealth. Of these the sea does not supply more than two or three per cent of man's food, and it may, therefore, be drop ped from calculation as it cannot be made much more largely contribu tory. The forest, 6ride A. ridl heri tage, is rapidly disappearing. Its product is valuable, rrot for food, but for shelter and as an accessory in the production of wealth. What is taken froni the mine can never be replaced i Within forty-four years we shall have to meet the wants of more than two hundred million people. In less than twenty years from this moment the United States will have one hundred and thirty million people. Wriere are these young I people, not of some dim, distant age, j but of this very generation now growing to manhood, to be employ ed and how supported? . . . . Every people is thus reduced in the final appraisal of its estate to re liance upon the soil. This is the sole asset that does not perish, because it contains within itself, if not abus ed, the possibility of infinite renew al. A self-perpetuating race must rely upon some self-perpetuating means of support. Our one resource, therefore, looking at humanity as something more than the creature of a day, is the productivity of the soil. . . . Only one-half of the land m private ownership is now tilled. That tilled does not produce one-half of what the land might be made to yield without an atom of loss of its fertility. Yet the waste of our treasure has proceeded so far that the actual value of the soil for productive purposes has already de teriorated more than it should have done in five centuries of use." Alive at last to this serious situa tion, the Southern people are ad dressing themselves successfuly to the enrichment of the land. For example, Dr. S. A. Knapp, of Lake Charles, Louisiana, has done a vast work throughout certain gulf states, notably Texas, in combatting the boll weevil by properly fertilizing the soils and by better methods of farming. In Virginia a band of citizens have employed Mr. T. O. Bandy to estab lish demonstration fields in various sections of this state. Mr. Bandy's own farm is a striking proof of what progressive methods can do in re covering exhausted soils. Twelve years ago, his present tract of land in Nottoway county was advertised widely for sale at four dollars per acre, and found no purchasher. For it, he has recently been offered fifty dollars per acre. At first he got about six bushels of corn to the acre; now he gets from fifty to seventy bushels. At first, little grass could be grown; now he cuts from four to five tons of the best hay off of each acre sown. He has a well-kept herd of cows, whose products he ships daily to Richmond. In a word, be- cinmner twelve years ago without a dollar, on worn-out land, Mr. Bandy received last year from his farm an income of six thousand dollars, while the fertility of his soil is increasing with every crop. He is only a type of what progressive farmers through out the South are accomplishing Their name is legion. The Dlan for demonstration fields is to get farmers in various counties Every woman appreciates a beautiful complexion, so much desired by men. Such complexions come to all who use Hollister's Rcky Mountain Tea. 35c. Tea or Tablets. E. T. Whitehead & Co. to agree to cultivate one or more acr3 ff. their land in accordance with Mr. Bandy's suggJrt'?. He will visit these standardizing fields once a month, seeking to assemble till th"? neighborhood planters at the local plot; and upon lliZt il; and in the sight of the growing crop, they" will talk over agricultural methods. In this manner, the best results of farming will at once be made known hi a visual way to the whole com munity. Prior to the war, the Sou'tll 3ve itself to merely growing four great staples tobacco, rice sugarcane and cotton. DlttfE!-. crops and inten sive farming are now the oTdrr of the day. For instance, in Louisa county, Virginia, it is found that a single acre of violets will pay better than a v:t jfet ir? corn. Near me is a beautiful home sus"u?n by a small plot devoted exclusively to roses. With our mild climate, varied soils and easy access to mar kets, the variety ot prble products upon the farm is great. Trucking along the coast, dairying on the up lands) ?t.ocV-f rising in the mountains offer rich rewards. Consider the possible yield of of ten. In 1850, the world produced two-and-a-half million bales of cot ton; the yield of the South alone this year is about thirteen million bales, and Its rena-city is practically unlim ited. "The cotton rcslon," says Bruce, "spreads over an area of seven hundred thousand square miles, and as yet only about five per cent of this sr s planted in cotton; it is not going too far to Sj that, with an extensive system of culture the South could produce one hun dred million bales of cotton." For this enormous supply of our chief paple'( th Orient offers a rapidly expanding market.' "Nothing so goo.l as Cascaswoet," writes a mother who has cd if. '"Jt siiv.'d my baby's life." v.viu:.: i-v. Cascaswoet is a vegetable corrective for the disorder." of achilti'sstom u h. Con tents o!i ce'rybotth" in plian Ivigli.-h. ."0 doses foi' iViM.. IX voni'ic ndcd by E. T. V.'l.itch'Md ('; Experience makes the cynic, lack of it the fool. A woman drives a horse much as she does a tack. There are inati3' tonics in the land. As by the paicrs you can we; But none of them can equal Hollister's Rcky Mountain Tea. E. T. Whitcbead & C. Prejudices are merely other peo ple's opinions. A close mouth is seldom open to suspicion. When your back hin ts it is ulmoM always a warning from your kidneys. Whi'ii voiir k-idnevs are wromr then; h j -nothing so good as the use of IX'Witt r Kntnev and J5lacmcr rius. iney as.-isi the kidnevs. Sold by E. T. White head ik. Co. Professor Hammers Why do you suppose the dog howls so when 1 play the piano, Mr. Knox? Mr. Knox -A dog cannot be taught to conceal his feelings. Chicago Chronicle. AsK for the Genuine jj And see that yem get what you. asK. for The largely increased demand for Sun Cured tobacco, created and sustained by the distinctive quality oi the original Reynolds' Sun Cured tobacco, has encouraged other manufacturers to place on the market imitation brands and ta;s which are made to look so near like the genuine Reynolds' Cun Cured that unsuspecting chewers and dealers receive the imitations under the belief that they arc getting the genuine Reynolds' Sun Cured tobacco. Look close and see that the letters cn the tag spell R-e-y-n-o-l-d-s' Sun Cured, and you cannot be deceived in getting what you ask for and want the hvsXvaltie for your money that can be produced from the genuine Sun Cured tobacco, grown where the best sun-cured tobacco grows. ASK FOR "REYNOLDS'" . and see that you get the original and genuine Sun Cured tobacco. It's like you formerly got, before Reynolds' Sun Cured was offered to the trade, costing from 60c to $1.00 per pound, and is sold at 50c per pound in 5c cuts, strictly 10 and 15 cent plugs. S. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO.fWinstoi;-5a!eaif N.C. By Intention, When a Scotchman has no argu ment at his tongue's end to defend his own line of conduct, which anoth er may have criticise!, it may safely be inferred that his ancestry has strain from some other nation. A man who h: ?n estate in Scotland took his new plowman to task for the wavering furrows which were the results of his work. "Your drills are not nearly as straight as those Aligus made," he said severely. "He would not have left such a gltb as this." "Angus didna kert hU work' saul Tammas calmly, contemplating his employe with an indulgent gaze, "Ye see, vfic the drill k crookit t'ie sun gets in o;l tH sides, an' 'tis then ye get early 'tata'.?." ii , .i i ii. - Doing Business Again, "Wlunniv' f"nds thought, I was1 ibi.ut Co take leave of tki world, oi irconnt of indigestion, in'i'v''WKss a.n( .fi'iifial debility." writes A. A. Cbis !ii!r,i. Trfa.lwell, N. Y., "and when it !is"k. i! :;s ii' l)" T,: was no hoje left, I .vas pciMiadcd to ti'.V W' trie Betters, and 1 r -juice to say that lllcy are curing in'". I am now doing business again a- of old, iu'f' ! still gaining daily." t!et t nic medit h-' oi earth. Guar anteed by E. T. Whitehead & C., di-.igi.-is. .'P. "I run afraid you don't like work " "Yes, I do," answered Plodding: Pete; "I have so much respect for work that when I see a piece of it to be 'tended to I Jlus feel like turnin it over to somebody dso that wouldn't bo as lil ely to spoil it S3 I would." Washington Star. nip, coniHlii lioney aim i.u mni i superior to other Cough syrups, 1 1 m:my ways. Children always like it be cause it contain. no opiates, is a laxa tive and is guaranteed to give satisfae-li-tn or vouf money refunded. Try it. o!d by E. T. W hitehead it Co., Scot N v k, Iieg"Mt Drug ('., Hohgood. U Cu;r, my SOU is t'At;nni;jjr lifTi lent." "Indeed?" "Yes; he is t.-oubled with ingrowing ego." Philadelphia Bulletin. Improper action of the Kidneys causes backache, lumbago, Kheuniitism. 'TinCiiles" is a kidney n iix'dy that wilt relieve these diseases. rieit-:mt to take? and guaranteed to irive satisfaction or inonev refunded. "Helief in every dose" sold liy E. T. Whitehead it Co.. Scot land Neck, l'ggett Drug Co., Jlobgood. Gerald -May I kiss you when I leave you at the station? Ceraldine The station is a long way off. New York Press Ask for Alien's Foot-Ease, A Powder. It makes walking easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Ingrowing Nails. Swollen and Sweeting feet. At nil Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Don't accept any substitutes. Sample Frkk. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y 4-4-4t She -You told me before we w( r married that you were well off. Ho -I was, but I didn't know it.-Exchange, 1 s