ood Advertising, Is to Business what Steam ia to Machinery, that great propelling I ovor. This paper gives results.' Good Advertisers Use thee columns for results. An advertisement in thi paper will reach a good class of eopltf. 0 E. E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. "Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. ! VOL. XXIII. New Series Vol. 10.-6-18 SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1907. NUMBER 30. I )0 YOU GET UP I WITH A LAME BACK ? lidncy Trouble Makes You Bliserable. I Almost everybody who reads the news papers is sure to know of the wonderful , cures made by Dr. J the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy. ji It is the ereat medi- f?S cal triumph cf the nine- ' Kciwi tcniury; c.3 covered after years cf rciint.'(; i i -Qn8 Dr. Kilmer, the emi nent kidney and blad der specialist, and is 'wr-nderfully successful in promptly curing Ja.r.e hack, kidney, bladder, uric acid trou bles and Bright's Disease, which is the worst fem cf kidney trouble. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is not rec 0z mended for everything but if you havekid iit ;, liver cr bladder trouble it will be found ju..t the remedy you need. It has been tested In S3 many ways, in hospital work, in private 'pr-t -lice, among the helpless too poor to pur-Jcl-.ise relief and has proved so successful in 'e fry case that a special arrangement has fcc-'n made by which all readers of this paper Jw'-. 3 have not already tried it, may have a 'sample bottle sent free by mail, also a book te'u-.g more about Swamp-Root and how to fini cut if you have kidney or bladder trouble. V.'. c.i writing mention reading this generous .or r in tnis paper ana send your address to sD:. r.Umcr S: Co.,Bing-,h.- -.r.in, N. Y. The Itt. ul;.r fifty Cent and Home of Swainp-Roct e:..-r sizes are so;a by an good druggists. 1 IV-n't make any mistake, but re-5iT.-.-:tiior the name, Swamp Root, Dr. K 'ni' i-'s Swamp Hoot, and the address l'in''h:imtn, X. Y., on every bottle. A f. SMITH, M. D. Physician and Surgeon, Scotland Neck, N. C. i(X'iro in the New Bank Building. 1)3. J. P. WIMBERLEY, Physician and Surgeon, Scotland Neck, N. C. OlTiee on Depot Street. m. fl. c. LIVERMON, DENTIST. jp2lj -aCG "P stairs in Wlute- il head Building. O'Tioo hours from 9 to 1 o'clock and 2 to o o'clock. Mi W MSYHM Refracting Optician, "Watch Maker, Jeweler, En graver, Scotland Neck, N. C. I NcBRYDE WEBB, Attorney and Counselor at Law, 2! 0-221 Atlantic Trust Building Norfolk, Va. Notary Public. Bell Phone 374 3WARD L TRAVIS, attorney and counselor at Law, Halifax, N. C. !.I mey Loaned on Farm Lands if. JOSEY, ( i enkral Insurance Agent, Scotland Neck, N. C. foOffiESSi hair' BALSAM . fv1-'SSt31,r:mt lniuriant growth. . -iVik-; "-&3 Eat.- to its Youthful Color. Cutca ifalp .ee9 & buir fulling. y'','vfrj y? gc,nM (I.Wt PrugsUfr Day & Hedges, Livery Buggies Harness "Whips Robes Tarboro, North Carolina iic-Gky Mountain Tea Nuggets A Mpinli-.a for Eukv Peonle. 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Wherever you turn at a postoffice, a news stand or any other place where reading matter is in evidence you see numerous publications of which you had not heard before. Who writes them all and who is to read them all? And yet we have now and then heard it said that we are not a reading people. We may not be a people who read wisely but a great quantity of reading matter of one kind or another is scattered about the land. To be sure, some of it is bad and worthless, but much of it is good; and whether or not we are strictly a reading people, one sometimes wonders if all the printed matter that is sent out will ever be read. An editorial writer in Collier's compares the farm, the city and the vil lage, and asks if the farm and the city are not more diserable places than The Village the Poorest. a load of wood. But we give the article as it appears in Collier's: "Is the average village the most difficult place in which to 'bring up' a boy? The farm boy is sent alone with the team into the wood lot two miles back in the hills, and told simply to get wood. He deals with broken harness, a balky horse, trees new-fallen across the road; fails, gives up, cries, arises, and two hours late for dinner comes out with a load of wood and an incre ment of character good for life. The city boy sees every one doing some thing intensively, feels, like the farm boy, the isolation of his own person ality, and finally takes off his coat and goes in to play the game. The vil lage youth, however, is likely to lean on one foot for years in a group of his kind, wondering what they would say if he made a move. Having the farm's cloddiness, without its daily call to the individual mastery of prob lems, and the city's social closeness without its incessant urge to achieve ment, is not the village in special need of revivification and healthful stimuli." Where is that fellow who, jsome months ago when we were in the grasp of a chilly spring season, predicted that we would have no summer this We Have Had Some Summer. yea? t. is" Men glibly make declarations and predictions concerning the weather and what not, but they know previous little about; it. The prediction that we would have no summer this year has "panned out" about like most of the predictions of the kind. We remember when it was so cold last spring a good lady observing that the Bible says the time will come when we cannot tell one season from another except by the budding of the trees, turned to us and. asked if we did not think the Bible was about to become true. Being a believer in the Good Book, we answered that we rather thought it was, but we did not link our conclusion to the weather conditions at that time or the prediction of the fellow who said we were to have no summer this year. And if that good lady's faith in the Bible depended upon the likeness in the summer's temperature to that of the cold spring, she will have to look up a new instalment of faith; for every body in these parts knows that the thermometer for July has registered in quite a different altitude from what it did in May. If that man who predicted no summer this year has been within a reasonable radius of this point during the past four weeks, he might as well own up that he has lost his reputation as a weather prognosticator. Both branches of the Georgia Legislature passed a bill prohibiting the manufacture and sale of spirituous liquor in that State and Governor PrcSiiuiiion in Georgia. of the Piedmont Hotel, one of the largest in Atlanta, will lose fully sixty thousand dollars by reason of the prohibition, but he favored it from the first and promptly signed the bill. The Atlanta Georgian, Mr. John Temple Graves' paper, had been singularly free from "taking sides" on any question, but when the prohibition question sprang up the Georgian said: "A great question has arisen. It has come suddenly. It is not a question of men. It it not a question of politics. It may be a question of sentiment. It may be principle. It may be fanatacism. The Georgian doesn't care what it is called. It is an effort in the General Assembly to prohibit the manufacture and sale of the State of Georgia. The question duty of The Georgian to lay aside every rule or policy that interferes with advocating and supporting the measure, and we now and hereby give all the energy, support, and power that in this paper lies to the end that the prohibition legislation now pending in the State shall become a law. Continuing that paper gave the following reasons for supporting prohibi tion: "First, we believe it is the best for the people. Second, because we believe that from three to five million dollars a year in Atlanta goes to the the saloon that may in part go to the dry-goods store, the builder, and traptnr. One million in this five the other way. Third, we believe m rpo-ulate the negro who commits his mnet. vpnal aDDetites are importance to try the experiment if there is no negro population had Deen aosomu; u. believes that the acts that brought on the Atlanta riot were committed laro-elv because of the aid of liquor. The Georgian and the people know . ,:f darted bv men from the saloons on that Saturday night. The Georgian believes therefore that, nrohibition has been effective in any iNortnern oue wnaC . : ,fl.f nrohibits in Georgia, where there are nearly one and a quarter million negroes, or a negro untold benefit." Hundreds of people yearly go through painful operations needlessly because ihov never tried' Man Zan Pile Remedy. It h vui up in such a form that it can applied right where the trouble lies. U Sieves th'e pain and knatgn. It is for any form of piles. 1 nee oOc. E. T. Whitehead to. the village. With accuracy the writer de scibes the farm boy's half day experience after Hoke Smith promptly signed the bill. It is said that Governor Smith, as one of the owners intoxicating drink as a beverage m is so great that it seems to he the direction would be better tnan the it is best because it would do more greatest crime because of liquor, urea oy it. mis aione oj. eui all experiences in other States where regardless of the degree to which to every white person, it will be an Oh! my stomach's a very uncertain thing, I suffered the torment that costive - ness brings, hnppv. normal and free, A miracle wrought by Hollister'a Bocky Mountain Tea. E. T. Whitehead &. Co. Hour Adulterant from Greensboro. George T. Angell in "Our Dumb Animals" writes as follows: We take the follow' ng from the Boston Evening Transcript: The high price of flour has led to the use of a new adulterant which has been detected in the Ohio mar kets by the state authorities. It is made of white clay pulverized and is called mineraline. It cannot be di gested and is accordingly very unj wholesome. It costs a cent a pound, but as flour costs about three cents a little mixture of mineraline is prof itable. Luckily it is easily detected under a microscope. Food Commis sioner Blackburn has sent out a cir cular, of which this extract follows: "A chemical analysis shows that it is a siliceous mineral resembling talc in physical properties. It is in soluble even in the strongest sul phuric acid, and is totally unfit for the purpose for which it is made. It seems to be a kind of clay, dried and powered very fine, and is shipped from Greensboro, N. C. You are hereby notified to be on the lookout for flour adultered with this sub stance, take samples and leave them with the nearest chemist for analy sis. 1 he smallest per cent, oi adul teration with this substance can be easily detected under a microscope." The St. Paul Pioneer Press says great efforts are being made to in duce millers to mix this article with their flour. Many years ago we spent as read ers of our Autobiographical Sketches know hundreds of dollars in money and thousands of dollars in time in investigating and exposing through the press the wide sals of poisonous and dangerous articles of food, drink and other poisonous and dangerous articles, among which as stated on page 50 was the fact that several mills were grinding white stone into fine powder of three grades, called soda, sugar and flour. In a paper which we read before the American Social Science Associ ation, and which wa3 published in fall in most of our Boston daily papers, we showed that the only sufficient remedy was the formation Public Health Associations composed of influential citizens, supported by voluntary contributions, employing chemists, microscopists and officers, who could not be removed by any outside influence, and which should prosecute offenders and send out widely over the country the facts as certained. "The result was the en actment of the new laws, and that our city and State Boards of Health have done much good work, but not a twentieth part of what ought to be done and might be if these Boards could be provided with twenty times the money they now have, and their officers (like our judges) be elected for life or otherwise placed beyond the political interference of corpora tions and individuals who are engag ed in the manufacture and sale of these articles. Mosquitoes and White Stockings. (New York Sun.) The recent discovery that army posts are thriving places for mos quitoes because these insects breed in old cannon and in the piles of old cannon balls may be supplemented by another discovery which women attached to these posts made in the Philippines with regard to mosqui toes. An officer's wife at Fort Slo- cum told about it the other evening when some men visitors wearing low shoes and black hose were slapping their shins. "If you were here long you would notice," she said, "that every woman around here wears white hose. It isn't because it is the fashion, but because mosquitoes rarely bite through white stoekings. We learned that in the Philipines. Black hose seem to attract these. There is something about white that repels them. Tell your women folks that when they visit an army, post in mosquitoe time and expect to be out of doors to be sure to put on white stockings. It will save them a good deal of annoyance. - A woman rub bing her ankles together because of the misery of mosquito bites is not altogether attractive." For Over Sixty Years Mrs. Winslow,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 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, 1000, Serial Number 1097. The Farmes Feeds Them All. (Author Uukown.) The king may rule o'er land and sea, The soldier ride in pomp and pride, The sailor roam o'er the ocean wide. But this or that, whate'er befall, The farmer he must feed them all. The writer thinks, the poet sings, The craftsman fashions wondrous things; The doctor heals, the lawyer pleads, The minor follows the precious leads: But this or that, whate'er befall, The farmer he must feed them all. The merchant he may buy and sell, The teacher do his duty well; But men may toil through busy days, Or men may stroll, their pleasant ways; From king to beggar, whate'er be fall, The farmer he must feed them all. The farmer's trade is one of worth; He's partner with the sky and earth; He's partner with the sun and rain; And no man loses for his grain; And men may rise and men may fall, The farmer he must feed them all, God bless the man who sows the wheat, Who finds us milk and fruit and meat; May his purse be heavy, his heart be light; God bless the seeds his hands let fall, For the farmer he must feed us all. "Fear Words" to be Avoided. (Success Magazine.) "In the dictionary of fools we find 'I can't' very often, plenty of 'ifs,' lots of words like 'luck' and'destiny,' and phrases like 'if I only had time or a chance like other people!' " Did you ever think that many of the words and phrases which you constantly use are your real enemies, that they leave their hideous pictures and black shadows in your mind? How many times have you been kept from doing a good deed by such phrases as: "Oh, I can't do that;" "I am afraid that that will not turn out well;" "Oh, I know that I can't do that;" "Somebody else can do that a great deal better;" "I am afraid to try;" "I haven't the cour age, l tear i snail take cold or catch some disease if I do this or that"? I believe that those two words "I can't" have ruined more prospects, and have kept more ability doing the work of mediocrity than any other two words in our language. "I am afraid of this or that" is a terrible hinderer, a terrible blighter of ambition, a cooler of enthusiasm. All achievements and all efficiency depend upon initiative, and that is easily killed by the fear words, the words which express doubt and un certainty. "By thy words thou shaltbe justi fied, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned." Every person indicates his strength or his weakness by the preponder ance of strong or weak words in his habitual vocabulary. Negative, weak words, words of doubt, uncertainty, or hesitation, predominate in the vocabulary of a negative man; while the positive, plus, creative, vigorous progressive words, which indicate mental domin ion, prevail in the vocabulary of a positive, vigorous, progressive char acter, as they did in Webster's vo cabulary. The man who never wants to give a decided opinion, who always wants to reserve his judgment, or who says he doesn't know, or that he is afraid, the man who does not dare to begin things, who shrinks from responsi bility, or who always thinks he can not do this or that, is not the man to undertake great things, is not the man for great responsibility. But the man who says, "I can do the thing," the man who believes in himself and in his ability to carry through what he undertakes,the man who feels his strength, is the mast erful man--the one who will do thing3, not dream about the. Summer coughs and colds yield at once to Bees Laxative Cough Syrup. Contains honey and tar but no opiates. Children like it. Pleasant to take. Its laxative qualities recommend it to mothers. Hoarseness, coughs, croup yield quickly. E. T. Whitehead & Co. Wigg "Tiilie Topnotes says she is saddest when she sings." Wagg "Wrong. The people who have to lis ten to her are sadder." Philadelphia Record. Keep the pores open and the -skin clean when you have a cut, burn, bruise or scratch. De Witt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve penetrates the pore3 and heals quickly. Sold by E. T. White head & Co. Charged $5.00 for "Sass A story is told of Fanny Kemble, whose favorite summer resort was ; Lenox, that on her first season there she employed a self respecting vil-: lager who had a comfortable turn-; out to drive her about. He, feeling j it to be his duty to make the drive j as entertaining as possible,- began to ; call her attention to the beauty of ! the scenery which she wished to! enjoy undisturbed and to tell her ' who lived in certain houses as they j passed along, until finally Mrs. j Kemble, being unable to stand it any j longer, said in the high tragedy J manner somewhat peculiar to her, "I have engaged you to drive for me, sir, and not to talk." The driver ceased talking, pursed up his lips and in all their subsequnt drives his only remarks were such as he found necessary to address to his j horses. At the end of the season he handed in his bill for the summer ser vices. Running her eye down its awkward columns she paused at an item that she didn't understand. "What is this, sir? I cannot com prehend it." With equal gravity he replied: "Sass, $5.00. I don't often take it, but when I do I charge." She paid the bill without comment and continued to employ the same driver during many summers she spent there. Settled the Question. I was In a German barber shop in Stockton," relates a railroad man, "when a nervous and excited Ger man fellow dropped in to be barber ed. He was very nervous indeed. I suspected that he wanted to catch a train. At any rate.he was so nervous that he couldn't keep his seat. He be gan pacing up and down the floor, waiting his turn, and as thi3 did not seem to calm his nerves he stepped outside and began pacing up and down the sidewalk. He came back in a moment and discovered, much to his horror, that some one had got ahead of him and had taken the first vac?nt chair. The nervous man stalk ed up to the head barber blustering ly and said: " 'If a man gomes in und goes oud, has he vent?' "The head barber looked at him searchingly and replied with dignity and emphasis: " 'He vas, but he ain't.' "Whatever that means, it ended the dispute quite effectively." Home Magazine. A London Fog. (Selected.) Nothing has such a bewildering ef fect as fog. Only animals which find their way by scent can get about in it with any certainty. Birds are entirely confused by it. Tame pige ons remain all day motionless and half asleep, huddled up, either in or just outside their pigeon houses. Chickens remain motionless for hours during heavy fogs. No bird sing3 or utters a call, perhaps be cause it fears to betray its where abouts to an unseen foe. During one very thick fog a blind man was found wandering about a certain district of London. This man was in the habit of coming up every day from a suburb carrying notes and parcels, and had scarcely ever lost his way before. Asked why he had gone as tray (for he was quite blind, and it was supposed that weather would have made no difference), he said that in a fog the ground "sounded quite differently." A Question ot "Character." There is a story about a company promoter who advertised for an of fice boy. He received one hundred replies. Out of one hundred he se lected ten, and with the writers of these ten replies he had a personal interview. His final choice fell upon a bright youth, to whom he said: "My boy, I like your appearance and your manner very much. I think you may do for the place. Did you bring a character?" "No, sir," said the boy. "I can go home and get it." "Very well. Come back tomorrow morning with it; and if it is satisfac tory, I dare say I shall engage you." Late that same afternoon the finan cier was surprised by the return of the candidate. "Well," he said cheer ily, "have you got your character?" "No," answered the boy; "but I've got yours, an' I ain't coming." Ar gonaut. Tincules for the kidneys strengthen these organs and assist in drawing poi son from the blood. Try them for rheumatism, kidney, bladder trouble, for lumbago and tired worn out feel ing. They bring quick relief. Satisfac tion Guaranteed. E. T. Whitehead & Co. Is ItYour Own Hair? Do you pin your hat to your own hair? Can't do it? Haven't enough hair? It must be you do not know Ayer's Hair Vigor! Here's an intro duction ! May the acquaint ance result in a heavy growth of rich, thick, glossy hair! Use this splendid hair-food, stop your falling hair, and get rid of your dandruff. The best kind of a testimonial "Sold for over sixty years." 4Xade By J. C. Ajar Co., Lowell, Mm. Aiao maauiaoiurtra or yers SARSAPAR1LLA. PILLS. CHERRY PECTORAL. Summer Deserts. (Woman's Home Companion.) PIES FOR SUMMER If you must bake pies, make them in this way through the summer: Bake several lower crusts or shells, and put away until you wish to uso them, they will be good for several days if placed in the oven a few min utes to freshen when wanted. Then fill with stewed fruit, which has been sweetened and thickened to the de sired consistency with corn starch; cover with a fluffy meringue, brown slightly, and there you have it a fresh pie with a crisp, flaky crust. Mrs. W. N. Y., Iowa. muskmelons with ice cream Select melons with thick, orange colored meat, wash, and place on ice for several hours. Then cut in halve:?, remove the seeds, and fill each half with ice cream. Chopped nuts may be sprinkled over the top. The stones of halved peaches and the cores of large, ripe pears may be removed and the fruit served with ice cream. Nothing is more delicious and cool ing than fruit served in this way. Mrs. M. 0. C, Michigan. OLD-FASHIONED FPwOZEN CUSTARD One quart of new milk, four eggs, one cupful of sugar (one half pound), one tablespoonful of vanilla, two tablespoonf uls of corn starch. Place the milk over the fire in a double boiler; use enough cold milk to moist en the corn starch, add this to the hot milk, and stir until it begins to thicken slightly; beat the eggs and sugar together until very light, then pour in the hot milk, and cook one) minute. Take from the fire, and when entirely cold add the vanilla, and freeze. Serve in saucers, and to each portion have a tablespoonful of preserved pineapple or a few candied cherries. E. G. L., Maryland. ENDORSED BY THE COUNTY. "The most popular renifdy in Otnego County, and the- lc.-;t frifud f ny fam ily," Wm. M. Di;tz, editor and pub lisher of the! Otscg Journal, GiUc.Tfa vilk N. Y.f "is Dr. King's New Dis covery. It has proved to bo an infal lible cure for roughs and colds, making short work of the worst of thorn. Wo always koop a bottle in the house. I believe it to be the most valuable pro scription known for bung and Throat diseases." Guaranteed to never disap point the taker, by E. T. Whitehead & Co's Drug storo. Trice GOe and .$ 1.00'. Trial bottle hoc. A professor of the University of Chicago says that the future of tho world lies between Russia and China, and that the coming great nation of the world is China. Well, so it don't come in the form of another barbaric Mongolic invasion, let it come.1 Richmond News-Leader. "Wc never repent of eating too little," was one of tho ten rules of lifoof Thoina JoilV rson, president of the United States, and the rule applfes to everyone with out exception during this hot weather, because it is hard for food, even in small quantities, to be digest'-d when, the blood is at high temperature. At thirf season we should eat sparingly and properly. Wo should also help tbo stomach as much as possible by the uso of a little Kodol For Indigestion and Dyspepsia, which will rest the stomach by digesting the food itself. Sold by E. T. Whitehead t Co. "What's that you're so busy writ ing? You're regularly perspiring over it." "My wife is giving and ad dress on 'Woman's Righto' tomorrow and I am preparing it for her. Lus tigc Blaetter ' 'REG UlXiVas" THE SUN" is an expression as old as the race. No doubt the rising and setting of the sun is the most regular performance in tho universe, unless it is the action of tho liver and bowels when regulated with Dr. King's New Life Pills. Guaran teed by E. T. Whitehead Cq,, drug gists. 25c, 1 it;