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n I tllll.iWHH Good Advertising to I'.iieuifao what Steam, is to -Machinery, that great propelling power. This pa per gives results. Good Advertisers Use thee columns fur result. An a! vi-rti-e;,Ktit in thU paper will reach a 1 class f pV. X li "tt!.V! ecjtor end Pronriefer. 'Excelsior" is Our Hollo. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1907. NUMBER 26. Commonweal yOL.'XXIU. New Series Vol. 10.--C-1S s-rx-T-1r-J.. -irr-nn ihhm , ,lml DO YOU GET UP WITH A LAME BACK ? iiuney Xrotrtlo jtiakcs You Miserable, j -rnc,r,t everybody who reads the news- inov.' ot the wonderful i cures made by Dr. 1 Kilmer's Swamp-Root i the great kidney, liver j .r t ladder ramedv. r- It is the great medi- ! cai triumph cf the nine- ' ;! f isentn century; Jis Vi covered alter years cf d scientific research K- :' li f f f . Y"FV i ' Ei Dr. Kilmer, the emi ner-t kidney and biad- V r specialist. anH . r(S. jccessful in promntiv i -" siuney. Ciad'Jer. uric acid iron L-n-ht's Disease, whicft is the worst .idrsoy trouble. inv.r'c 5wi:mpRoct is not rec- jifcrcv.ythinijbutifyouhavekid r cr binder troub; -; it viU be found .'cu : K. -.as been tested ii voik, in cnvat:. v.- n h: ' lh" --co5 '.co poor to mir-rc.i-! p.-i.i has proved so successful in e.-.--.i t:i:u i special arrangement hi-s " ? hi'-n readers cf this paper r: t already tr:;d it, may have a ? b sent free by mai1, also a bock out iwarr.o-Kcot ar.d hew ti ' r.a a Kicnev cr b a..1rtm,-KU ;cn readincr ' tin's generous '.ij paper and r - Co.VBinr-H J. Y. Thebi :v cent and Ilomt- of SwiiiiitwRn. re sold by all good druggists. 'liaise any ; the n.in.i-, s Swamp l;()t Mistake, but re wemp limit, Dr. , and the ;n! dress n i vi rv In ittle. 0, p. sunn, M. d. riiVilflAX AXD Sl'RtiEOX, : ' ' !.e Ni-w Hank Iui!dinr. 'HvsiciA:,' and Sukoeon-, 'Mil. He t Kit h-eet. c. RM9N, 1 DENTIST. up stair- in Wliite- lding. 1 o'clock k. )fr; and 2 M Is. Refracting Optician, cii I.uikor, Jeweler, En jrro vf-r. W Scotland Neck. N. C. J. T op.nev and Counselor AT Law, i i --- i Uiantie Trust Building Norfolk, Va. Notary Public. Bell Phone 37-1 gDWARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Halifax, N. C. lourv Loaned on Tarm Landf- n. J0SEY, ' !::"): r a l Tnlurance Agent, Scotlnnd Nock, N. C. V;.c,-.-2H MAIW BALSAM "" t Z....::... .1.. Ii.t. - tiil'roin't-.a . UxurMit growth. ( A, h T Livery uggies Harness w nips Bobes Tarbcro, North Carolina i O,1 ::: V Troi.1, i ".rf;.--' i ;:'.t!i r.r..l :r.:-.u&v-3d V:'j;or. .im:!-. n. Ii:-ti.--o :tion. .-. i :.;.,: - K- -m . I;si'irt , U ;:!.' ;'.i .:i:e!ii!i lea i" t.'Ji. ;i'J! uv v, 5?it.jim, Wis XT flAND CSJ!E thk LUNGS I Price 50c & $1.00 iH I CL-GnS end n ISOLDS Freo Trial. j Guaraatced for all THEOAT and ft LUJKG THOU3L,E, or ELONEY UGH I I with ffSnv'g 1 J $ka Bmw&ty g fcL... flCtiZVS&i'rUi'ii Price I THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS. Observations of Passing Events. Someties one almost questions the use of literary training when he hears people who ought to know better use so many incorrect expressions. Carelessness in Expression. The double 'sative which so mars one's sen- tences, is one of the most common errors at all. College bred people are almost constantly using this form of expres sion, when the pupils of a grammar school should know better. "I don't know nothing about it," is a fair sample of the many expressions which so many people use in violation of the rule concerning double negatives. . 11 ls Just as easv to say 1 don't know j don t know nothing about it." But most people persist in using the I double negative. And now and then we find a newspaper writer commit l ting to print expressions that are incorrect. For instance, one often sees j the expression "surrounding circumstances." Why use the word "sur j rounding" at all? The word "circumstances" expresses all that both j words together can express. And we remember to have seen in the head lines of a newspaper the word "forecasted." According to our best recol lection of the formation of the past tense and perfect participle of verbs, "forecasted" is a little too long. Well, most of these incorrect words and expressions are not the result of ignorance, but of simple carelessness. Would it not be well for people in the homes to make effort to keep their expressions correct? If this were done there would be less cause for one to think of the uselessness of school training. Collier's makes the statement that one adult woman out of every five, according to the Census Bureau report, is at work in the industries, and Women in the Industries. that only eight industries out of lhree hundred and three are held exclusively by men. This is hard for one in the rural districts to take in. Here we see comparative ly few women at work in the "industries," for the opportunity does not exist. It is mostly in the cities and larger towns that women are so gen erally engaged in the various kinds of work which opens up to them. Collier's describes the great throng of women who work in the "indus tries" as follows: "One who is looking for flesh-and-blood verification of census statistics needs only stand by the Metropolitan Life Building, ;n Nev York City, at nine o'clock in the morning. This is the largest office building in the world, and holds the widest range of occupations. In the solid procession passing, at that hour, from the subway to its en gulfing; doors, there are thr-e women to one man. They are mostly quite young, proving that the business woman does not eschew marriage when sue cl et it; they appear well-fed, picture add the very probable consummation of a movement that is just now beginning strongly, the organization of women workers into trade i iuons cm eon:m-l n.l p w.'rful anJ ir.ilitant as the present labor organi zations of men. 'Who can guess what vital social and economic changes will follow twenty years of this?" "Taxes are indeed heavy, but we are three times as much by Pride, and four Ben Franklin On Tares. And as the season for listing taxes has just closed perhaps the average man in North Carolina has been concerned about taxes as much for the past iponth as anything else. Many a man, doubtless, has scratched his head under the effort to bring his conscience and his poverty on good terms so that his property value might shrink at least fifty per cent, for one day. And doubtless for some the shrinkage in value has been of more importance than the consultation with conscience, and the decreased value has tallied ail right without the aid of conscience. But many have gone to the assessors' table, and like true men that they were, they have been true to the instincts of good citizenship and have valued their property at reasonable figures, or have not objected when the assessors have fixed what i-hey thought was the proper value. Now, to all, those who have pinched conscience, those who have left conscience out of the question and those who have "just done right," let us consider in a few words "Poor Richard's" declarations quoted by Idleness! It would be only a matter man who grumbles about taxes to find that he wastes time enough every year to make up two or three times over for the taxes he has to pay. That time saved and properly utilized, and he would be in much better condi tion, perhaps physicaliy, certainly morally and financially. Then what ravages Pride does work upon the make a show equal to some others, who perhaps can ill afford their own style of living, they spend many a dollar and bit of energy which, if turn ed into the proper channel, would count largely towards paying the taxes cf which they grumble so heavily. And the Folly into which so many people tumble.and which ',Poor Richard" said costs four times as much as taxes, is too many-sided to be discussed in a paragraph like this. We heard ore man who is now perhaps fifty years old, and who has handled a reasonable share of money, perhaps, say that he had never spent a hun dred dollars for which he could not show value received. We think his s-tatem-nt even then might have been taken CUM GRANO salis, and we very much doubt if he could say it now, since a few more years have been added to his life. Few persons who are ever in a condition to spend money at all take anything like fair account of what they spend foolishly. We have made these observations with the hope that they might be sug- ms1w to the tax grumblers. Idleness, Pride and Folly are still with us and arc still taxing us just as heavily as they did when wrote, and perhaps they are increasing their burdens. I'ineule- for the kidneys strengthen thce orgiins and assist in drawing pe,i ,,n from the blood. Try them for rheumatism, kidney, Madder trouble. (.... l, ,.u, mill tired o:-i! out leel- in". They bring jinck relict -atislac- tion Guaranteed. I Co. Whitehead tt "All cry and no wool" is an expres sion, found in Butler's "Hudibras." 1'ineules are for the Kidneys and lihe.Mcr. They bring quick relict to l,.,.-kwli. rheumatism, lumbago, tired worn out feelings. They Vodw nat inl il(:ti-.m of the kidneys m b crmg wasti matter out ol tne moou. ..i.v- treatment .$1.00 Money reiunneu n E. T. l'ineules an1- ill) i satisfactory. . . . .. anything about it," as to say "I prosperous, and happy. To this taxed twice as much by Idleness, times as much by Folly". "Poor Richard's Maxims" contain few things of greater force than the foregoing quotation. above. How much the land is taxed of simple calculation for many a lives of some people! Desiring to 'Poor Richard' A cleansing, clean, eooling,soothing, healing household remedy is DeWitt's Carboiied Witch Hazel Salve. For hums. cuts, scratches, bruises, insect bites, and sore feet it is unequalcd. ('Ill II 1 for Tiles, lie ware of imitations. (Set DeWitt's. It is the Lest. Sold hy E. T. Whitehead & Co. "Man proposes, but God disposes,' remarked Thomas a Kempis. A CERTAIN CUBE FOR ACHING FEET. Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder; cures Tired, Aching, Sweating, Swollen feet. Sample sent Free, also Sample of Foot-Ease Sanitary Corn-Pad; a new invention. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Midsummer. The haze hangs warm where sky and mountain meet, And earth's full pulses throb with fervid heat. Rich harvests bend, while little airs, at play, Waft scent of clover blooms and new mown hav. July's rank verdure lies on field and wood; Midsummer's here, and life is at the flood! John Ilutchins, in the Outlook. To Develop Power from The Ocean. (Ek-ctrical News.) Is the cherished drea.a of scient ists to come true after lono: years? A German electrician claims to have invented a machine which utilizes the power of the ocean waves so that dynamos on shore can be made to develop electricity enough to light streets and buildings. If this be true, he has solved the problem of future fuel supply, for no longer would coal be required for cooking, heating or power when electricity could be had so cheaply. All the power, light and heat the world required would be at hand to last as long as man. The economi cal saving of such an invention would be beyond comprehension and could hardly be spoken in figures. Food stuffs, clothing, transportation and a thousand luxuries and conveni ences would be greatly reduced in price. Electric lights would dis place all other luminants. Electric power would move the trans-continental trains and all vehicles, besides turning the wheels of labor. The cooking and heating of the home would be done by electricity. A few years ago this discovery, if it be a discovery, would not have meant so much to the world as it does to-day, because the inventive geniuses of the General Electric Company had not then solved the problem of long distance power transmission. After this concern introduced the first oil-cooled, high power transformers long distance transmission of high voltage was made possible, and to-day current generated on the sea coasts could b carried to almost any part of the country. Such transformers are used in carrying the power from the Kern river project to Los Angeles, a distance of 112 miles; from Niagara Falls to Syracuse, and in a dozen other places in this country, Canada and Mexico. Schurz Describes Gettysburg. In the July number of McClure's Magazine, Gen. Carl Schurz tells of "The Battle of Gettysburg," and with this instalment nis Reminis cences reach a great climax. The whole scene of this most eventful American battle was spread out be fore General Schurz in his positions on the crest of Cemetery Ridge, he saw the whole action and compre hended it with the sure knowledge of an experienced officer, and his description of it is so simple, so graphically dramatic that the scene is spread before the reader in a vast panorama. Schurz brings out clearly that neither General Meade nor General Lee desired or expected to fight a battle at Gettysburg, but both were drawn into it by an unexpected en counter of the Confederate general, Heth, "who hoped to find 'some shoes' for his men at Gettysburg, and a Federal cavalry general on reconnaissance, both instructed not to bring cn a general engagement, but rather cautioned against it." From the very inception and the first skirmish, through the whole terrific engagement, Schurz leads one step by step. He makes the reader see the two armies gradually marshaling for a battle for which neither was ready, and Lee," who had wished and planned for a de fensive battle, obliged to fight an aggressive one against the Union army established in a firm position." The tremendous heroism of Lee and his army are finely brought out. It is useless to try to tell in a short space this article in detail. Schurz has done it so well that any one in terested will want to read the au thor's words and it is safe to say you will agree that you have never read a better description ot a battle than this. For Over Sixty Years Mrs. Win-low, s Soothing Syrup lias been used for sixty years by millions of mothers for their chidren while teeth ing with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays sill pain, cure wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoae. It will relieve the poor little suH'erer immediately. Sold by druggists in every part of the world. Twentv -five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Wmslow,s Soothing Syrup. Guaranteed under the Food and Drug Act, June 30th, WW, Serial Number 1097. FERTILIZER FROM AIR. Muscle Shoals Power to Be lltlized In Deriving H. (Manufacturers' Record.) Thomas A. Edison, the electrical genius of the age, in an interview June 11 predicted that nitrogen from the air would be used for fcrtiliza tion of the soil within 10 years. But a Nashville (Tenn.) man is accomp lishing this achievement for the South in a much shorter time than Mr. Edison's limit, and it will be less than two years before fertilization from this source is an absolute fact. Mr. Frank S. Washburn of the Muscle Shoals Hydro-Electric Pow er Co. and also president of the American Cyanamid Co. has devoted years of study and experiment to the subject, with the result that the pany he represents will place in op eration a plant with the capacity of 20,000 tons initial capacity as soon as the Muscle Shoals power plant is ready for operation. This plant will represent an investment of $1,000, 000, It is already well advanced in construction, and the South is practi cally ready to cope with one of the greatest problems of the day in ag riculture. The question of using this nitro gen from the air for fertilization in volves the food supply of the whole world, and the immensity of it is staggering even to the most ad vanced scientists. The first cost of putting this substance on the mar ket is difficult to estimate, though it has been assured that the price of the commodity in marketable form will be much less than that of the regulation ammoniates now in use. The product will be manufactured in Alabama, though the brain power behind the work belongs to Tennes see, Mr. Washburn being a resident of Nashville, with office in the Cole Building, where the permanent head quarters of the American Cyanamid Co. will be located. The bulk of the factory's output will also be used in this State. When Mr. Edison discussed this subject he said that he expected to see atmospheric fertilizer on the market in this country within the next 10 years; that such a product would soon be absolutely necessary, and that every shipload of corn and wheat which goes abroad leaves the United States so much the poorer in nitrogen. He further said: "Until recently the utilization of atmospheric nitrogen was regarded as merely a laboratory demostration. Business men said it would never be obtained cheaply enough to sell the farmer as fertilizer. In Norway a plant has been established with such good results that I expect to see at mospheric fertilizer on the market in this country within the next 10 years." The wizard of electricity did not know at the time that much nearer home than Norway a company had been formed and had purchased the exclu sive American rights for the manu facture of atmospheric nitrogen and to have the exclusive use in America of the machinery for this purpose, which anticipates an output of 40, 000 tons of nitrogen annually, to be increased gradually to 220,000 tons per year. Mr. Washburn, president of the company, will address the Board of Trade on this interesting and impor tant subject at the membership meeting June 27. Muscle Shoals, where the plant will be located, is one of the few spots which offer ad vantageous ground for this industry, which requires a large amount of hydro-electric or other natural power that is cheap. In discussing the topic and the causes that have made its present manufacture a pressing need, Mr. Washburn said: "The increase of population and the decrease of plant food in the soil create a danger of cutting off the food supply of the world a fact that has been recognized by scien tists for some time. Vat sums of money and incalculable time have been spent in determining exactly when the world will feel the pangs of huger from this cause unless other sources of supply are discovered be sides the existing stores of nitrogen ous deposits. Depleted soils must j be supplied with the food supply of which they are robbed by the succes- When the baby is teething it is cross and restless; it becomes feverish, and in many cases vomits a great deal and oftentimes cannot even keep cool wa ter on the stomach. All the delicate little organs of the stomach are effec ted, bringing on colic and diarrhoea. Cascasweet for babies and children makes the stomach right and allays in flammation and prevents irritation. Gascasweet makes the baby happy and well. Sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co. sion of crops. For a number of years there have becri three plant I foods which have constituted plant (fertilizer. They are nitrogen, phos- phorid nr.d potassic compounds. The 1 only natural source of nitrogen is i in Chili, and is called Chilean r.itro'- gen. These deposits are being ex hausted, the quantity exported is in creasing and the price per ton ad- fi vancing every year. j "In this country the by-products j of packing-houses and cottonseed meal are used for their nitrogen more than the Chilean product, but all of the nitrogenous compounds, wherever found, are restricted ?n production. "For 100 years scientists have bet n trying to obtain nitrogen from the atmosphere, and during the past 16 years the situation has been such com-ithat investigation has been re doubled. with the result that a ni trogenous substance suitable for fertilizer has been developed. The cost of production is considerably less than the present price of other nitrogenous compounds." , Astonishing, But Trne. (Selected.) Twenty-five years ago you could not telephone a friend; ride on the trolley cars; cool the rooms in hot weather with an electric fan; turn on the common electric light; send a wireless message to your relatives on ship-board; set your watch by an electric clock; purchase an electric automobile; walk in safety in the city streets in the glare of arc lamps; cook by electricity; ride be hind an electric locomotive; do the family ironing out of doors without fire; drive all machinery with mo tors; live in a house without a chim ney; keep warm by electric heat; de velop out-of-the-way water-power and transmit that power to the cities; ride on an electric elevator; listen to the telharmoniuin; take an electric message or listen to an electric phonograph. To Calculate Longevity. (New York I'ust.f "Bacon took a deep interest in longevity and its earmarks," said a physician, "and Bacon's signs of long life and a short life are as true to day as they ever were. "You won't live long, Bacon point ed out, if you have soft, fine hair, a fine skin, quick growth, large head, early corpulence, short neck, small mouth, brittle and separate teeth and fat ears. "Your life, barring accidents, will be very lengthly if you have a slow growth, coarse hair, a rough skin, deep wrinkles in the forehead, firm flesn, a large mouth, wide nostrils, strong teeth set close together and a hard, gristly ear." When there is the slightest indication of indigestion, heart burn, flatulence or any form of stomuch trouble take a little Kodol occasionally and you will be n Honied prompt relief. Kodol is a compound of vegetables acids and eon tains the juices found in a healthy stomach. Kodol digests what you rat, makes vour food do you good. Sold by E. T. Whitehead it O.. Dean Swift is credited with"Bread is the staff of life." Talk about your breakfast foods. A thousand you can see; I would not have them as a gift. But would have Hi eky M nmtaiii Tea. E. T. Whitehead A Co. The Baptist University For Women, RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA. High-grade school for women. Thirty-four officers and teachers. Di . plomas given in the Arts, Sciences, and Philosophy, and in Music, Art, Ex pression, and Business. Excellent equipment for teaching and illustrul ing the Sciences. Distinct School of the Bible. Full Business School, in charge of a competent instructor. Art School, including Oil, Applied Design, and China painting. Regular Normal Course, elective for A. B. degree. Special short course for Public School teachers. School of Music, with ten teachers and giving instruction in Piano, Voice, Violin, and Pipe Organ. Comfort of students looked after by a lady physician, nurse, lady principal, and matron. Board, furnished rooms, literary tuition, he:-:t, hatha, arid fees for physician, nurse, gymnasium, and library, Slul.OO a year: in the Club, $30.00 to $."j.00 less. Next session opens September 4, 11)07. For catalogue and all information, address G-20-4t R. T. VANN, President , THE NORTH CAROLINA State Normal and Industrial College. Regular Courses leading to degrees of Bachelor of Pedagogy, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, and u new course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Music. Board, laundry, tuition, and fees for use of text books, etc., 170 a y a r. For free-tuition students, $w2. Tin: Xoiimai. Dr.i'ARTMKXT gives thorough instruction in the subject- taught in the schools and colleges, and special pedagogical training lor the profession of teaching. Teachers and haduates of other colleges are otl'eyi 1 a one-yi ar sjiccial course in Pedagogy and allied subjects. Tmk Co.M.MF.uriAi. 1 )k;'. iitm knt oilers practical instruction in Stenography, Tyiewriting, Book-keeping and other bu.-ine subject. The Departments of Mantm. Ai:ts and Domestic Science provide in -iruc-tion in Manual Training and in such subjects as relate directly to the lanne and family. The Mt'sic Department, in addition b the degree ronr.se, offer.-, a o-itiii'-ate course in vocal and instrumental music. To secure board in the dormitorie , all free-tuition applications should be made before July . The fall term opens September is. pin7. For catalogue and other information, ad. Ires-. .1. I. FOUST, Pkksidext, 6-2o-4t riKEKXSBURO, N. C. Is Your i Hair Sick? I That's too bad! We h'ad no ticed it was looking pretty thin and rough of late, but naturally 8 1 1 - t 1. - rni1r Jit it 1)w i GJU nOl llC IV )talv n. i-jr me way, Ayer's H5ir Vip.or is a rceular hair grower, a per fect hair tonic. The hair stops! coming out, "grows faster, keeps soft and smooth. Ayer's Flair Vigor cures sick hair, makes it strong and healthy. Tho bast kiml of a testimonial ' 3old lor over sixty years." fads b J. C. Ayr Co.. loweu, uta. I Alio maunrn'jiurcru m 9 MKSAPAK1LLA. I I! I S. u:t'.u:Y PECT0RU.. yen fertilizer Fro:fl the Air. (Cliai l..tte I i.H'iiii'li .) In a recent interview Th-mius A. Edison predicted that within ten years the farmers would be ferlili:'. ing the soil with the tu;e of nitro.'eu from the air. At J.luui-! Shoals', near Nashville. Tenn. a company is actually completing a plant to nN.u ufacture this fertilizer from the aif The Banner says to the prospect: "It is diliicull to estimate the first cost of putting on the market tin? nitro genous substance which the air con tains in limitless quantities and which has proved so elusive of s?iences grasp. But the price of th i commodity in marketable fmm will be much less than that of th regulation ammoniates in use to day." Great things are predicted for the new fertilizer an 1 the pro jectors of the enterprise exjxct to revolutionize the' agricultural inter est.? of the world. A Mun:rali!e Day. One of the days we remember with pleasure, as well as with profit to our lieallh. is (lie one on which we b'-cum.- .K-iMiunteil wil'.l I)!' I'i.M.:V N"W bh'e Pills, the painle.-s purifier (bat cure headache and billioii-ne-s, and k-rp the bowels right. . at !:. T. White head fc Co.'s drug store. As long as the earth U inhabited men an women will continue t stir up trouble for each other. MOTI 1 i:R GRAY'S SWiilOT ! "J W DERS FOR CHILDREN, Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children's Home in New York, Cure Feverishnes.-', Bad Stom ach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowel.- arid Destroy Worms. Over .'W,00 testimonials. TIIKY NKVKK KAIb. At all Druggists, 2-jc Sample Free. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. It was Keats who said, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." Long Live tnc King! is the popular cry throughout Kuropean countries; while in A met ican.t lie cry ol the present day b" bong li v Dr. King'.-; New Hi-covery, King of Throat and. Lung Remedies!" wbi h Mrs. .''ili Ryder l'aine. ofTmio, Ma-v., say-: "li. never fails to give immediate reiiel cai to quickly cure a eoiigh or o.ld.' ' rs. Paine's oii(iii in U .-bared ! v a maj r,ty of the inhabitants ol' this country. New Discovery cures w al; Inn.-' end or: throats after all other remedies have failed ; an 1 for coughs and cold it s the onlv sureenre. (iuar.iiib I oy H. T. Wl.ilehead and $1.(10. Trial Co.,Iin; ottle free, -l-t-. . mncra A i- ( If li t a. i- 'i r 1 :i ! I i - -' . : i ill : i ! i ! n: Whitehead & Co. I V I