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Good Advertising Is to Business what Steam is to Mach'-.-.ery, that great propelling power. This paper gives results. COMMONW Good Advertisers rr 17 vi H H Use these columns for results. An ail vert isement in this paper will reach a good class of people. . E. MILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. "Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. VOL. XXIII. New Serie Vl. 11..-6-18 SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1907. NUMBER 3 4. EKU. DO YOU GET UP WITH A LAME BACK ? KJdaey Trouble Makes You Miserable. Almost everybody who reads the news papers is sure to know of the wonderful cures made by Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder remedy. It Is the great medi cal triumph of the nine teenth century; dis covered after vein nf V w-vjliy scientific research by KvS Dr. Kilmer, the emi- -rr w. aim I A 'onderfuIly successful in promptly curing lame back, kidney, bladder, uric acid trou bles and Bright's Disease, which Is the worst frm of kidney trouble. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is not rec ommended for everything but if you have kid Key, liver or bladder trouble It will be found Just the remedy you need. It has been tested In io many ways. In hospital work, in private practice, among the helpless too poor to pur--hass relief and has proved so successful In tvry case that a special arrangement has Veen made by which all readers of this paper v ao have not already tried it, may have a f nmple bottle sent free by mail, also a book t-UIng more about Swamp-Root and how to ( nd out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. When writing mention reading this generous r.'fer in this caper and erK send your address tog Dr. Kilmer & Co.,Bing- S ronton, N. Y. The r-ular fifty cent and Horn, of flwmj-noc. c?iiar sues are sold by all good druggists. Don't make any mistake, but re- 1 1 timber the name, Swamp Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, and the address Jnighamton, rs. 1., on every bottle, 0, P. SMITH, M. D. Physician and Surgeon, Scotland Neck, N, C. Office in the New Rank Building. )R. J. P. WIMBERLEY, Physician and Surgeon, Scotland Neck, N. C. Office on Depot Street. )R. A. C LIVERM0N, DENTIST. Office up stairs in White head Building. Office hours from 9 to 1 o'clock and 2 to 5 o'clock. l W. MIX0N, Refracting Optician, "Watch Maker, Jeweler, En graver, Scotland Neck, N. C. ! McBRYDE WEBB, ii Attorney and Counselor at Law, 213-221 Atlantic Trust Building Norfolk, Va. Notary Public. Bell Phono 374 DWARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Halifax, N. C. Money Loaned on Farm Lands ILL H. J0SEY, General Insurance Agent, Scotland Neck, N. C. PARKER'S u a i n r A l AM CImum and fcewtlflM th hrnlz. Hair to itm Youthful Color. Cum tnlp diMw hir tolling. )r,nif l."J Draft! Day & Hedges, Livery Buggies Harness Whips Robes Tarboro, North Carolina HOLLISTER'5 Bocky Mountain Tea Nuggets A Baiy Kedltlas fbr Bmj PocpU. 2riap Golden Health and Rnwod Vigor. specifle for Constipation, Indirection- Uv ;n KMimy Troubles, Pimples. Eczema, Impure Kori, Bad Breath, Rhljytfsh BowpU, Hwlrijf r..l UnckarTte. It's Rooky Mountain Tea in too-l'-t form, 3S cuta a box. Oenuino nindo ojr I'LiKTicR Pu Company, lladison, wis GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE KILL the COUGH AND CURE the LUNGS r. King's WITH Mou Diseovory FOB foocH8 . Jg. WULUB I rial DOUW riov AND ALL THROAT AND LUMP TROUBLES. GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY i. if nn THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS. Observations of Passing Events. Andrew Carnegie has made sufficient achievement in the world for his counsel to any class of persons to be valuable. But young men especially Carnegie to Young Men. ought to become a of hnancial success, but of philanthropy as well. He has not forgotten the moral side of life, and his observations on morals are full of good counsel and wisdom. He recognizes the age. Recently in an address to most seductive peril, and the destroyer of most young men, is the drink ing of liquor. I am no temperance knows and tells you what observation that you are more likely to fail in your career from acquiring the habit of drinking liquor than from any or all You may yield to almost any other and, if you recover lost ground, at maintain a respectable position." The two great mediums through which the world does business are money and confidence. Money is current value with every one for what is want- The Value of Confidence. or what is desired t0 be done and confi" aer.ee is with all who exercise it and can afford people place the proper value on confidence, either that which they place in others or that which others placa action of business is concerned, more some form or another than on the basis of cash. But apart from the financial consideration of confidence, people do not place the proper esti mate upon it. Confidence sustained, everything will have a chance to move on well ; but confidence lost, nothing can do so well. Every young person starting out on life's course should mark well the true and proper value of confidence. The young men or young women who begin to disre gard things in early life in such way that confidence in what they say, pro pose or promise will be shaken, will sooner or later find that they made a great mistake when they first allowed themselves to fall into any error which would cause their confidence to be discounted. Many times engage ments or promises which in themselves seem to indicate little whether kept or broken, prove to be an index of what may broaden in after life into great breaches of promise which may be fraught with fearful conse quences. All persons should be caret promises, and when once made they virtue in the breaking than in the-- keeping. The latter proposition may sometimes be true, however paradoxical it may seem. Many a profes sional career is blighted in the life of one who promises well simply te eause some one has lost confidence in the word or the promise. With til confidence maintained amongst all people this world would be a different place, many a life would be multiplied into success a thousand times over, and many a home would be transformed into a scene of intense happiness instead of a humdrum and aimless inactivity. Oh, that all could be able to maintain the confidence to which every good and noble life is entitled, and with which every such life might It has been stated that Ole Bull, the held thousands more than spell-bound as they listened to the matchless strains n's music nad practice constantly What an Editor Reads. to keep hig skm equal to the demand3 upon it He has been quoted as saying that if he neglected his practice one day he felt it and realized it before an audience; if he neglected to practice two days in succession a skilled musician, like himself, could detect it; and if for three days in succession he neglected to practice, a general audience could detect it. An editor's experience relates to his reading. If he neglects the news of the times day by day, he events, and sensibly feels it when the nnon what to write for the next issue a tri-weekly, a semi-weekly or a weekly. And if he does not read closely tWe who are skilled in the art of newspaper making, for it is an art in many respects,- will soon discover his of the times. And if he is not careful to read about what is happening in news circles and what other editors and writers are saying, his readers will soon feel that his paper is dull, perhaps without knowing the cause; nrl if this netrlect is allowed to fasten itself upon the editor too long he will lose his readers, for they will turn to something more interesting. BWnpnnlp. in a eeneral way, have amount of reading an editor has to do world " as we say; and no one who has not had close observation or experi ence in the work, has any conception of the "grind" there is in this read ing If you should peep into the uJa aA him rapidly opening HOt UJ " changes-papers and magazines-you in the shade Nine times out of ten ne is as mucn iaugueu a ui man has been following the plow or shoving the plane. And should you chance to peeping his study at his home some night when most men's work is over for the day you would think he is just revelling in ease, with his hooks on one side and his papers piled about himjbut even then he perhaps has just commenced a three hours' task of preparing copy for his printers with a tired brain and an aching brow, while most people are turning hi to pleasant dreams and refreshing slumbers. THE LIMIT OF LIFE. The most eminent medical scientists arc unanimous in the conclusion that the generally accepted limitation of human life is many years below the attainment poBHiblo with the advanced . , . race is nowpoh- scrtscd. The critical period that de termines its duration, seems to be be termim.it proper care of K?r ifter 50 is Electric Bitters, the be glad to listen to him, for he has shining example in this acre not onlv that liquor drinking is the curse of young men he said : "The first and "lecturer in disguise, but a man who has proved to him ; and I say to you other temptations likelvto assail von temptation and reform mav brace un f j- y least remain in the race, and secure and current value for the same things it from a financial standpoint. Few in them. So far as the world's trans is done on the basis of confidence in ui about making engagements and should be kept, unless there Is more doubly bless the world ! great violinist, whose magic stroke is something like this to-day, as it to read pretty carefully and closely losses the connection of current moment comes for him to decide of his paper, whether it be a daily, want of touch with the current events the faintest conception of the vast in order to "keep in touch with the editor s sanctum some sweltering and scanning the columns of his ex- , . . , . would perhaps envy him his ease ENDORSED BY THE COUNTY. "The most popular remedy in Otsego County, and the best friend of my fam ily," Wm. M. Dietz, editor and pub lisher of the Otsego Journal, CJilberts ville, N. Y "is Dr. King's New Dis covery. It has proved to be an infal lible cure for coughs and colds, making ' short work of the worst of them. We ' always keep a bottle in the house. I ! believe it to be the most valuable pre ' scription known for Lung and Throat diseases.' Guaranteed to never disap- point the taker, by E. T. Whitehead ' & Co's Drug store. Price 50c and 1 f.1.00. Trial bottle free. Hearing In New York. The hearing of the Southern Rail road rate case is being held before special master, Judge W. A. Mont gomery, in New York and some in teresting features of railroad inter est have been brought out. The fol lowing spicy paragraphs appeared in a dispatch to the Baltimore Sun: George E. Evans, fourth division superintendent of the Louisville and Nashville Railway, the first witness of the day, testified that he began his railroad career as a telegraph op erator and advanced through thirty six years of hard work to his present position. The Southern's general counsel, Captain Thom, asked Mr. Evans whether he could testify as to the cost of operating a railroad as interstate as well as intrastate, and also a through-state line. Mr. Evans nodded in the affirmative, but James E. Sheppard, who appears in the in terests of Governor Glenn and the State authorities, objected. "The witness, I believe, has not yet qualified as an expert," said Mr. Shepherd, "and I want that answer stricken from the record." The special master decided against the State, letting the answer go in, to the evident satisfaction of the Southern's attorneys. SAYS ROAD COULDN'T OPERATE. Mr. Evans then said that with -the enforcement of the 2 1-4 cent a mile rate, a road constructed so peculiarly as the Southern in North Carolina would practically have to give up operations. The witness said it costs more for local traffic than to carry through traffic, corroborating the testimony of Mr. Barr, the North Carolina lumber merchant, who at one time was president of the "Seaboard Air Line. Asked on what he based his ob jections to the following out of law regarding passenger traffic in North Carolina to 2 1-4 cents a mile, Mr. Evans answered: "On information I have received." "Be specific an tell us on what in formation," said E. J. Justice, who is Speaker of the House of Represen tatives of the State, and the witness frankly admitted that he could not say. "Don't you know," asked Mr. Justice, "that the gross earnings of the Southern Railway last year from operating trains on all lines in North Carolina were $1.98 a mile, and don't you know that the total earnings on all its lines in all States, when oper ating, were $1.58 per train a mile, and don't you know that the total expense on all its lines was $1.12 per train a mile?" Mr. Evans appeared to be dumb founded, and Captain Thom jumped to his feet. "Where does the counsel get the fact? I want that book," said Mr. Thom. "You can't have it," said Mr. Jus tice, "and I will not be catechised by you." ADMITTED HE WOULD BE MISTAKEN. Mr. Evans said if the statement by Mr. Justice was correct, then he himself was wrong earlier in the day, when he said a 2 1-4 cent rate would bankrupt the Southern Rail way. "You still insist," said Mr. Justice, "that your experience entitles you to give an expert opinion on all matters pertaining to railroading and to the Southern Railway Com pany in particular?" "I do," was the reply. "Then tell us why, if I should ship hardware to Greensboro, N. C, the last 114 miles of the journey should not be cheaper than the first 114 miles of this same journey, if, as you say, longer hauls with full cars are cheaper in operating than empty cars on short runs?" "I can't answer that question, for I don't want to sit here as an ex pert." At this the members of the State committee, with Mr. Justice, smiled, and the special master asked the witness if he did not want to with draw his earlier statement of being an expert, and Mr. Evans said, "No; let it stand." Cross-examined by State Senator Walter E. Daniels on behalf of the State, Mr. Evans wa3 a3ked: "You have said that local traffic service costs more to maintain than general State traffic. Is that so?" "Yes;" was the reply, "and I mean it costs more to stop a train at every station than it does to make a run. say, of 100 miles." "Well, if you didn't stop your trains at all way stations you would lose patronage"both from the pas senger and freight traffic; isn't that so?" and Mr. Evans had to admit that this was true, Abuse of Borrowing. (Southern Agriculturist.) It is one thing to be neighbors, and another to be near-by dwellers who borrow, ui an the practices oi a country neighborhood, I think that the greatest abuse I? the habit of bor rowing. And on certain streets, in intimate neighborhoods, in most towns the custom amounts to a posi tive evil. Solomon, the wise man, declares that "the borrower is ser vant to the lender," and Shakespeare does not hesitate to advise against either being a borrower or a lender on the ground that borrowing dulls the edge of friendship and interferes with the proper management of do mestic affairs. Think a minute, and you will agree with me that a bor rowing neighbor is a nuisance. To be interrupted at all hours and when in the midst of any and all occupa tions by a voice at the door begging the loan of a cup full of this or a little piece of that, or the use of your scissors or jour patterns or your latest magazine, does not always put you in a pleasant frame of mind. And when it comes to borrowing a quarter or a dollar or five dollars, the test of friendship is strained. No matter how friendly we are, we don't like to be eternally called on for the use of our goods or our money. So, I say, the habit of borrowing is bad in the extreme. The need must be a pressing one, indeed, before I will ask a friend to lend me anything, even for a moment. I suppose if I should lose my purse or get caught out in a hard rain, I should borrow a car fare or an umbrella; or if I should be taken with a pain in the midst of me when I had no one to go for the pain-killer, I should ask the one nearest to me for a remedy; but nothing short of an emergency will induce me to borrow of my neighbors. I read in a paper the other day where some one was giving advice on this subject, and three rules were laid down for those who must bor row. They were these: First, do not borrow unless it is absolutely neces sary; second, return promptly; third, return in as good condition as you receive. It is best to do without what you need until you can send to the store and buy; it is unkind and in excusable to keep others from the use of what belongs to them by keep ing their property over time; and it is disgusting to return a borrowed article in a torn or soiled condition, or to crimp the measure. As examples of the borrowing neighbor, I will recite a few instances which have come under my knowl edge. One young woman met an other on the street and invited her to a fashionable refreshment place for a treat. When the eatables and drinkables were disposed of she bor rowed the price from her friend's purse, and that was the last mention ever made of the matter by the bor rower. Another sent a servant to ask for a few minutes' inspection of a pretty hat just sent home from the milliner's. She kept the hat over night and wore it to a place of amuse ment, just as though it were her own. One woman made a practice of bor rowing a thimble every day for a week, although it was known that some of her family went to town every day and might have bought her a thimble. Another sent over at bed time on many evenings for a scuttle of coal to start the fire in the morn ing. One invariably waited until she was all ready to make a cake before seeing that she possessed the neces sary ingredients; then had to borrow something in a hurry. I know a girl who borrowed another's skirt to wear to a funeral, and kept it all winter and wore it out. As to books well, I grow wrathy when I begin to say what I think of people who borrow books. Some in dividuals seem to think a book com mon property, and therefore not to be returned. If you are a borrower, my friend, let me insist that you be a careful one, and return your neighbor's prop erty at the right time, and in proper condition. If you are a sufferer at the hands of others, take warning, and do not fall into the evil way. If you must borrow, do not abuse the privilege. "Wo npwr renpnt of catinc too little." was one of the ten rules of life of Thomas Jefferson, president of the United State?, and the rule applies to every one with out exception during this hot weather, because it is hard lor looa, even m small quantities, to be digested when the blood is at high temperature. At this season we fhould eat sparingly and properly. We should also help the stomach as much a.s possible by the use of a little Kodol For Indigestion and Dyspepsia, which will rest the stomach by digesting the food itself. Sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co. His Mother's Songs. Beneath the hot midsummer sun The men had marched all day; And now beside a rippling stream Upon the grass they lay. Tiring of games and idle jests, As swept the hours along, They called to one who mused apart, "Come, friend, give us a song." "I fear I cannot please." he said; "The only songs I know Are those my mother used to sing For me long years ago." "Sing one of those, " a roueh voice cried, "There's none but true men here; To every mother's son of us A mother's songs are dear." Then sweetly rose the singer's voice Amid unwonted calm: "Am I a soldier of the cross, A follower of the Lamb? "And shall I fear to own his cause?" The very stream seemed stilled, And hearts that never throbbed with fear With tender thoughts were filled. Ended the song; the singer said, As to his feet he rose, "Thanks to you all, my friends; good night, God grant us sweet repose." "Sing us one more," the captain begged The soldier bent his head. Then glancing 'round, with smiling hps "You'll join with me?" he said. We'll sing this old familiar air, Sweet as the bugle call, 'AH hail the power of Jesus' name Let angels prostrate fall.'" Ah! wondrous was the old tune's spell As on the singer sang; Man after man fell into line, And loud the voices rang. The songs arc done, the camp is still, Naught but the stream is heard; But, ah! the depths of every soul By those old hymns are stirred, And up from many a bearded lip, In whispers soft and low, Rises the prayer the mother taught The boy long years ago. Our Dnmb Animals. Over-Eating. (Selected. The stomach may justly be com pared to a furnace and foods we eat to the fuel which is burned. We eat in order to supply our bodies with nourishment, or in other words, to make blood, as that is the life-giving fluid; hence the quality of our blood depends upon the kinds of food we eat and their proper digestion. The stomach should be quite as carefully guarded as the furnace, not only as to the kinds of food used but the quantities as well. There is much greater danger of eating too much in most cases than too little, for the best stomach, like the best furnace can be over-stocked, and when an excessive amount of food is taken, even if it be the proper kind, it clogs the system and bad results follow which may easily become serious. I verily believe that more ill-health comes from over-eating than over drinking of intoxicants. I am leav- j ing out the moral question entirely, j for the gourmand docs not become the moral degenerate that the drunk- j ard does. No absolute rules of diet ; can be made to suit all conditions, js we are not all situated alike and what might be quite healthful for one might be wholly improper for another, and, moreover, various oc cupations require different foods. The purely brain worker needs some thing of a different diet from the outdoor laborer; the hearty wood chopper need.-? different rations en tirely from the lawyer, the author, or the bank manager. "REGULAR AS THE SUN" is an expression as old sis the race. No doubt the rising and setting of the sun is the most regular performance in the universe, unless it is the action of the liver and bowels when regulated with Dr. King's New" Life Pills. Guaran teed by E. T. Whitehead & Co., drug gists. 2(x He married money, didn't he? He thought he was marrying money, he merely married something else that talks. Philadelphia Press. Get a free sample of Dr. Snoop' "Health Coffee" at our store. If real coffee disturbs your Stomach, your Heait or Kindcys, then try this clever Coffee imitation. Dr. Shoophas close ly matched Old Java and Mocha Coffee in flavor and taste,, yet it has not a single grain of real Coffee in it. Dr. Shoop's Health Coffee Imitation is made from pure roasted grains or ccrea's. with Malt, Nuts, etc. Made in a minute. No tcuius wait, l ou will surely like it. Sold by W. T. Tyler, ! i i i Ncrih Carolina Expensive Frr Eai! roads. New York August 17. John M. Daley, of Chicago, an accountant, was a witness today before former Judge Montgomery, who has been appointed by Judge Pritchard, of North Carolina, to take testimony that will determine the constitution ality of the 2 1-4 cents Passenger Rate law of North Carolina. Mr. Daley gave various figures showing the cost of running a rail road. He said it costs three times as much for local hauling trains over a direct one hundred mile stretch or a longer distance. Fprmer Congressman Woodard, one of the representatives of tho North Carolina Corporation Commis sion, cross-examined Mr. Daley, who said that North Carolina was one of the most expensive States in which to operate a railroad. He said there were few large cities in North Carolina, and, consequently, there was no very large volume of business either from freight or passenger standpoints. Mr. Daley said that in Illinois, 80, 000 pounds of grain or 100,000 pounds of coal were loaded on a car, while in North Carloina 1.G00 pounds of to-, bacco constituted a car load. Thu witness said he thought about 70 per cent, of railroad business in North Carolina was in hauling lumber. Pearls At Panacea Springs. The Enfield Ledger of last week said: "The county read hands have been employed at Panacea Springs seme days and recently whi'o opening a ditch leading from the spring Mr. Cal Braswell noticed a mussel r.hell and decided to open it to look for pearls. Upon doing so he found seven small pearls in side. Others were opened as they were dug up and other pearls of considerable size were found. Somo of the pearls have been sent to Tiff any, New York to polish and appraise. The stream below the springs is said to contain many mussel shells and if the pearls found are of sufficient value Dr. Harris, the owner of the land, will have it systematically work ed." WcldGn's $f00,GG0 Cotton Mill. Friday's Raleigh Evening Times gave the following item of news, which will interest all of Halifax county: "A $100,000 cotton mill, located at Weldon, was chartered today, the name of the corporation to be known as the Shaw Cotton Mills. This con cern, besides manufacturing cotton goods, may manufacture wool, silk, hemp or other fibre substance. Tho corporation may begin business with $25,000, which has been subscribed by W. T. Shaw, Pierce, 100; A. C. Daniel, 50." f0 shares; W. A. House, 50; W. E. DCr Wood's Grass Ciover Seeds. Best Qualities Obtainable and of Tested Germination. Fall is the best time for nowine. You rest and improve your land, aud rest yourself, by putting fields do.vn in permanent grasses and clovers. V.rrite for Wood's Descriptive Fall Catalogue, telling best kinds to row, quantities to sow per acre, and giving full information about all seeds for fall -planting, both for the Farm and Garden. Catalogue mailed free on request. T. W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen, Richmond, Va. Ths Largest Sttd House li Tba Sooth. (X Berlin reformers now have a "race suicide" agitation another instance of how closely Imperial Germany watches and patterns after the American President. New York World. DoWitt'a Little Early KU-rs don't sicken or gripe. Small Tills, easy to take. Sold by E. T. WhiU heud 6c Co, It is the cheery worker that suc ceeds. No one can do his best, or even do well, in the midist of worry or nagging. Wherefore if you work, work as cheerily as you can. If you do not work, do not put even a straw in the way of others. Selected. If you suffer from lr:itiivg Ik Idling, sour stomach, Indigestion or I)ysjepsia, take a Rings Dyspepsia Tablets after each meal, and overcome the disagree able trouble. It will improve the apjte- ! tite, and awl uigestiyn. .b. 1. lute- aid digestion. head & Co. 0. pa KONEY REFUNDED. gists. . ow
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