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tr Good Advertising I to Business what Steam is to ry. that great propelling This paper gives results. Micnir power. E. . HiLUARD, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXIII. New Series Vol. 11. ..6-18 COMMONWEALT 'Excelsior" is Our Motto. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1907. Women as Wei! as Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble. Good Advertisers I'se those column for result. An advertisement in this paper will icieh a gout I elss ,,f pop!i. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. NUMBER -9. - MVlyfc Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, dis ;urages and lessens ambition; beauty, vigor mu i-iicenumess soon disappear when the kid neys are out of order or diseased. Kidney trouble has Is V V- V,iT Clllll-lca witn weak kid tjMife r.eys. If the child urin- urine scalds the flesh or if, when the child reaches an age when it should be able tc control tne Passage it is yet afflicted with hed-wetting depend upon it. the cause of the dii.iculty is kidney trouble, and the first :j i.u'ai'.i uc lowaras th THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS. Observations of Passing Events. It is often the cas? treamrnt 'mo i.ivj'aiu orrans. tv; of : u-' "iscasea condition cf the Kidneys and bladder and not to a habit most people suppose. women as ib! :id both rhe mild u a naoit as "d as men ae made ml.. and bladder the same great remedy! . . - bllCLI I 1 I .-wamp-oot is soon realized. It is sold .'.gg:si3. in istty- ft."-',Vyv' eab!s with kidney need ar.d and its, in one dollar I 'e, also pamphlet tell- z all auout : i.:es. 1 ou may have a Qttfe-MBHWS&Hr1 y.imple bottle by mail SiaitftUi Home oi Swaom-Rnnt i a.i wui u, inciuains' m.ir.v r.f -.. thousands of testimonial letters received from sufterers cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer v. -o.. o.ngnamton, jm. y., be sure r.er.tion this paper. an; Don't i make any mistake, hut. rn. the name, Swamp Hoot, Dr Swamp Root, and the address 'truamtoii, IS. ., on every bottle. : 1 o ! i 1 1 e Kilmer Qf P. SMITH, M. D. Physician and Surgeon, Scotland Neck, N. C. i :!;..' in tlie Xew Bank Building. J. P. WIMBERLEY, Physician and Surgeon, " Scotland Neck, N. C. OfTiee on Depot Street. 2. A. C UVERMON, DENTIST. OlQce upstairs in White head Building. Office hours from 9 to 1 o'clock and 2 to 5 o'clock. I W. MiXON, Refracting Optician, Watch Maker, Jeweler, En graver, Scotland Neck, N. C. s McBRYDC WEBB, that when a m?n wishes to dpfin timCoif 4-: san he will say, "I am a So-and-So Democrat or Republican," meaning to What iS a Party ? Say that So"and-So are his ideals of his party. , Uncle Remus' Magazine gives the following mterestmg editorial on the subject: "John Sharp Williams recently de fined a Democrat as aThan who occupies a safe (and sane) middle ground between plutocracy and mobocracy. This addition to the crop of answers that has sprung up since the New York World's enquiry does not help ZTl m,t0 Pple. We never met a man who i , Lnac ne nact any affiliation with either mobs or plutocrats. But whtle the patient and pathetic Democratic ass has been backed into a fence corner and compelled to confess that he doesn't know but that he oe a zeora or a spotted gyasticutus after all, it seems unfair not to call attention to the fact that the other parties likewise have many men of many mmds within their organizations. Is it easy to answer the question, What is a Republican?' If President Roosevelt, who chops down a trust every morning before breakfast (letting the chips fall where they may) is a Republican, what then is Senator Aldr.Vh? if T.... .- " vuuuiiuia ux iuwa. is a Republican, what is Uncle Joe Cannon, to whom H.p vp I ... ' --J nwugilk Ul Laiiu revision ,s a monstrous one? If Secretary Taft, who would like to see the rmpinos nave an American market for their products, is a Republican what, are the representatives and senators who oppose that just policy Democrats, Republicans, Populists, Socialists-so far as we can make out they have all chewed up their tas. John Temple Graves, who is a Prohi- ouion.st, -,vs Mr. Roosevelt looks like a pretty good Republican-sort-of-a-Dem. to him. Tom Watson opines that the Populists are the only real blown-m-the-glass Democrats in existance; and if you don't believe him he will prove it to you by Thomas Jefferson, who was the Tom Watson of his . y. xx. uaumLj,, uiiiiKs mr. ttoosevelt is a Socialist and an undesira l- 1Ja" 0 w:rais win ten you that such men as Alton a. rarker and Grover Cleveland are a great deal more like Republicans tnan most Kepubhcans are. And the Hearet-Familv-Briabane. whioh bred in San Francisco but in Boston it is beans, has described itself at divers times and places by divers sweet and lovely names, has been de scribed by every edged adjective in the political thesaurus. There is even some doubt concerning Mr. Fairbanks, for while he admits that he is just like Abraham Lincoln in most respecta, yet Lincoln told stories that even -it winsome, naughty, cut-up Mr. Bok of the Ladies' Home Journal, -would hesitate to print. It U becoming almost as pertinent to ask, 'What is a party?' as it is to ask, 'What is a Democrat?' " Tarn !iis Guns Back on them. Time out of mind the world has been terror stricken whenever thor,. has been a suggestion of any proxmity to leprosy. Those who have read Leprosy Delusion. "Ben IIur" remcmber the dreadful aspects of leprosy there presented. Collier's prints- the following interesting editorial on the delusion about leprosy. " "Tis not li ii ii -.. oni iruw mat crushed to earth will rise again. Popular error, especially husband, the brotW (SmithfieJd Herald.) Since the temperance people be came active all over the county in their work for temperance there has been a great deal said against them by the drunkards and liquor sellers. It has been said that the temperance people were trying to take away the liberties of the people and interfer ing with things which did not con cern them and that they were insin cere and hypocrites. Why were these charges made? To try to hinder good influences, and for no other reason. If thev would admit it, the liquor advocates know that the temperance people are work ing for nothing except general wel- tare of the public. They know, or at least most of them do, that these charges are absolutely false when they make them. The time has nov come when false charges should be resented and the guns turned back on the liquor crowd. J. hey, by "upholding liquor, cause most of quarrels, fusses, fights, mur ders and law suits. They ruin indi viduals, destroy or paralyze the good influences, of the home, the school and the church. They kill fathers and make orphans, many of whom we have to support. They do the main work which fills to overflowing our asylums with insane people to be supported by heavy taxes levied on the masses. They fill our iails nnd penitentiaries with criminals, there by imposing burdens and shame on our civilization. Sometimes one mur der trial caused by liquor costs the tax payers four to five thousand dol lars. This is the kind work which the drunkards and liquor sellers are doing. Who will be foolish enough to say that such men are entitled to the respect 111 a community as others? Who will say that they are entitled to patronage in business when their influence is to break doown instead of building up civilization? Who is there to stand up and defend their cause in this day of enlightenment and progress? The time has come to call a spade a spade. It is now in order to class all criminals together. The man whose influence or whose business debauches the father, the THE OLD HOME. A Man Has Failed ThouQh Rich. A Drunkard's Soliloquy. (Success.) When he is coarse in his manner and brutal in his Instincts. When he is constantly reminding others that the brute still lingers in (Selected.) Backward, turn backward, 0 Time, in your night, And make me a man again, just for him. to-night; When there is evidence of mental Let me shake off these vile rags that penury in his conversation 1 wear, When he radiates soul poverty. uieanse me irom all this foul stain When he is a moral pauner. tnat t Dear, When he does not carry a hie-her Oh, let me stand where I stood long wealth in his character than in his pocketbook When he is narrow and bigoted in his opinions, When he is living a mean and stinery Iile so far as his charities nnd mag nan:m;ty are concerned When he has fed others on hopes in- Freed from these sorrows, unknown to this woe; T7 . 1 P Ti ,. n eeu irom a nie mat is cursing my soul Unto death while the years of eter nity roll. Can Cancer Be Cured? It Can. We want every man and woman in the United States to know what wa are doing We are curing Cancers, xiimors and Chronic Sores without the use of the knife or by X-ray, and are endorsed by the Senate and Leg islature of Virginia. WE GUARANTEE CUR CURES. KELLAM HOSPITAL, No. 1615 West Main Street, Richmond, Virginia. Backward, turn backward, O fast- st?,a f n a(Wi"ate salaries or just flowing stream, Would that my life could prove only a dream ! Let me forget the black sins of the past; Let me undo all my folly so vast; Let me live over the dark life that is gone; T : . 1 i 1 . , . xjiiug uacK. me aarK, wasted years that have flown. Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, And make me a man again, just for to-night. Back ! Yes, turn backward, ye swift rolling years ! dues When he does not in his prosperity help those who helped him in his adversity. When he goes on the principles of getting all he can and giving as little as possible. When he carries about his business a vinegary face instead of a sunny one. When he has not enriched the lives of others and made the world a little better for living in it. When ho has not helped to push civilization a little higher. When he over-emphasizes dress and pleasure gives them his first .Jose j Co Undertakers' Supplies. Full and Complete Line. Why does your memory bring forth thought, his best time these hot tears ? Why comes this vision of life lost in sin? Why am I thinking of what might have been ? Where is my home, once so happy and bright? ? . il 1 1 vnerc is mat iacc wnose own pres ence was light? Where arc the children who climbed on my knee ? Back, flowing tide! Bring them Attorney and Counselor at LA, 210-221 Atlantic Trust Building Norfolk, Va. Notary Public. Eell Phone 374 gDWARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Halifax, N. C. Money Loaned on Farm Lands WiLL H. J05EY, fJcxHR.L Insurance Agent, Scotland Neck, N. C. -rT PARKER'S I HMR SALS AM l?firK E9 Prtfmct" laxumnt growth. I iri r'" JRJiJeFtr Pail a to Hsstore Gray; '!y'"SSta to t8 Youthful Co! jr. I tv 'Var"-ir.r3 v.ureB pca:p a i went Be nair laiung. r J fric.asd ;i.(rJat t Har ay & Hedges, Livery uggies :ness Whips Robes Tarboro. North Carolina koluster-c Rocky fountain Tea Nuggets A Easy Hedioias fct Busy People. Brin?3 Golden Eoalth and Renewed Vigor. ,A, f,?.Ti(!c f Consiirtation, Iri'lie-sf ion. Live yi 1 Ki'incy Troubles, t'imples. K7em , Impure J ; tSre.ifb, Pluffgish Bowels, Ilendorrhe I' '"rm, ir cnfs a box. Gfnuino made by i-'uukteji Dara Company, Mauison, Wis WUSHN Si'JGCETS FQH SALLOW PEGPLS ILL THE i AND CUI? THE LURSCS WiTH r, m s PLOUGHS Bft?raoo. i OLDS Trial Bottle Frea 13 ALL THROAT AND LUNG TROUBLES. GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY 5 MONEY REFUNDED. u ancient enough, has the same buoyant faculty. When the discovery of a case of leprosy in a poor young Russian servant girl in Boston was an nounced recently, the papers of the land flared with headlines and a wave of horror and dread swept over the community. Frenzied space-writers gloated over the appearance of "the dread scourage in our midst," and wondered copiously what the health officers would do when the crop of infected victims began to show itself. Similarly, last year, when a Syrian exile was found to have a mild case of leprosy, great commonwealths vied with one another in the savagery with which they drove him from their 1 W n VC '1 ri A A I j fin Via mnn of 1 U J ,J J i? 1J t I ,. ujiu, miui ys.o av iciigiii iuunu ueeiu ui com ana starvation in the half-ruined hut into which he had been driven at the muzzle of rifles with an occasional bullet sent through the roof to keep him in order, everybody breathed a sigh of relief and said: 'Poor fellow ! best thing that could happen to him.' These are but exhibitions of the cruelty which is born of cowardice and founded upon the terror of abysmal ignor ance. Few things are more utterly unfounded than the popular dread of leprosy. The prevalent conceptions of the disease are as grotesquely mic- aken as the famous definition of a crab given by one of Agassiz's students: 'A little red fish that walks backward.' The great professor, you re member, smiled quietly and remarked: 'Very good, except that a crab is not a fish, is not rod until it has been boiled, and does not walk back ward, but sidewise.' The three features in the prevailing idea of leprosy that it is intensely congtagious, absolutely incurable, and inevitably fatal -are almost as thorough inversions of the actual fact. Leprosy is one of the least contagious of all diseases known to be due to bacillus. Ten cases of leprosy at large would be a lesser source of danger to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts than one case of ordinary consumption. In th great European hospftals cases of leprosy are kept for months and even years in the open wards, with thirty or forty other patients, to be exhibited to students and visiting physicians, without the slightest fear of contagion. White men living upon civilized diet seldom contract the dis ease even in the tropics, but when they do, and return home with it, they almost invariably recover, and never have been known in a single instance to communicate the disease to others, not even to members of their own family. Osier relates the case of an eminent clergyman vho was a leper for thirty years without it ever interfering with his work, or any one save his physician suspecting the fact. A civilized community, properly fed and housed, is in no more danger from a case of imported" leprosy than it would be from one of beri-beri, or scurvy, or cancer, or club-foot. The leper-house or colony is a'survivor of barbarism and medieval ignorance pure and simple, and as unnecessary as it is cruel. more harm to the community than the petty theif or the common liar. The people need to go upward and not downward; they need to do for ward and not backward, they need improvement and development in stead of destruction and debauchery, and the man or men who undertake to block the wheels of progress should be kicked off and made to stand back. once more to me ! let the tide rustics on, this wild flight of years, And the days only deepen my sor rows and fears. I call, but no answer comes back to me now, Naught but an echo as weak as my vow: or thr ?nn rlnoo ! TT.. iU ji i , . , . . ux ncaui uit: sciu cypress n ee, low in the sod, Lies, the body whose soul has gone back to its God, And out of the silence no child voices come, As in days long ago in my sweet, happy home. Backvvad ? Nay time rushes onward and on ; 'Tis the dream that comes back of the days that are gone : May a Girl Work Her Way Through 1 yielded my strength when I could College? have been strong. I would fly, but alas ! I had lingered "Undoubtedly it is possible for -a I too long, girl to work her way through col-1 The hell-hound had seized me my lege," writes Margaret E. Sangster I " was not rnino' in the October Woman's Home Com- Degtruction was born in the spark panion, "if she have exceptional . lmg of wine! ' brainpower, exceptional pluck and : So' in wea!aiess 1 totter, through exceptional health. To accomplish gloom to the grave, this difficult task without pecuniary ' A sovereign at birth, but in dying aid from relatives or friends is a I a slave. OUT OF SIGHT. Out of bight, out of mind," is an okI Siivinsr wiucn aiiuc- " 01.v.. to a pore, burn -or wuuim uwi treated with IJuoklon's Arnica Salve. It 's out of siclit, out ot nnnii mm out of existence, riles too mm n""' Guaranteed by E, druggists". 2og. T. Whitehead it Co., ThP father's virtue is the child's best inheritance Chinese Proverb. Stomach troubles. Heart and Kid ney ailments, can be quickly corrected with a prescription known to druggists everywhere as Dr. Shoop's Restorative. The prompt and surprising relief which this remedy immediately brings is en tirely due to its Restorative action up on the controlling nerves-of the Stom ach, etc. Sold by A. C. Peterson. If von take De Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pills you will get prompt re lief from backache, weak kidneys, in flammation of the bladder and urinary troubles. A week's, treatment 2o cents. Conceit may puff a man up, but it can never prop him up. Ruskin. Don't get out of patience with the baby when it is' peveish and restless, and don't wear yourself out worrying night and day about it just give it a little Cascaswcet. Cascasweet is a cor rective for the stomachs of babies and children. Contains no harmful drugs. Sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co. very formidable undertaking, and it is rrardly wise to attempt it unless one is sure of having the requisite physical capital and of being able to stand the strain of a long, hard and wearisome pull. Girls have done this, girls are doing it now, and girls will continue to do it, but the race is encumbered by heavy weights, and the rowing is upstream. "In college there are many open ings for earning money, and it may be remarked that nobody loses caste or is treated with condescension be cause she is frankly poor. A girl with a knack for sewing may use her needle and receive pay from students who do not wish to sew or mend. She may make shirt waists, trim hats, mend stockings, sew on but tons, repair skirts and do a number of useful things that will help her along. "In a Western college I met sever al young women who had paid their way by sweeping, dusting, washing windows and cleaning paint, by tak ing hold, in short, of anything that offered, jyhether it was hard or easy. In this particular college the expen ses were less than in more luxurious institutions in the East, and I al most thought that the students had a more insatiate love of learning and an intenser personal ambition than I had seen elsewhere." When his wealth has left others poorer. When he has robbed another of op portunity; when, in amassing his wealth, he has cramped, dwarfed or minimized another's chance. When his career has not an up ward as well as an onward tendency. When he has piled up books, paint ings and statuary with his wealth, but is a stranger among them, knows nothing of their meaning. When his soul has shriveled to that of a miser and all his nobler instincts j are dead. ' When the best part of him has I gone to seed. When his brightest brain-cells have gone out of business and he only lives in the base of his brain, down close to the brute faculties. When his wealth is obtained at tl:c sacrifice of character. When he has never wiped a tear from a sad face, never kindled a fire on a frozen heart. When there is a dollar in his pock et dishonestly gained. When the blood of youth or orphans or spoiled years of precious lives and lost opportunities of others stick to his millions. Coffins and Caskets Burial Robes, Etc. Hearse Service any Time N. B. Josey Company, Scotland Nock, North Carolina Administrator's Notice. Having qualified as Ihe adtninir trator upon tin: estate of Mrs. Pattiw I'. JianiK-t, l.v.;;i.sil, Int.-,f H;difn county, N. C, 1 hereby notify ail pei wn-. j.;:vi;ig cinims :i;:iin.st th; estate of said deceased lo present; them for payment to nie on or be fore the 7th day of August. l!MS, or this notice will bo pleaded in bar of! their recovery. All pcr-sons indebted to .said estate will please make im mediate wllleniont. P. C. Ham: :t, Administrator, MSCt A weak Stomach causing, dyspepsia, weak Ileni! with palpitation or in termittent pulse, always mean weak Stomach ne ves or weak 1 feint nerves. Strenghten these inside or controlling nerves with Dr. Shoon's Kosforative md see how quickly the.-o ailments dis appear. Dr. Shoop, of Itacine, Wis., will mail samples free. Write for them. V test will tell. Yourhenlth is certain ly worth this simple trial. S:ld by .A. Peterson, Administrator's Notice. Having qualified as administrator of the estate of Pom II. liryan, de ceased, late of Halifax county, N. C this is to notify ail persons having; claims against said estate to exhibit them to the undersigned on or he fore the 22nd day of August, P)8, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons in' debted to said estate will please make immediate settlement. This August 20, P)07. G. W. Bryan, Administrator.' 8-22-0t We Keep on Hand 1 r mim leases: ? c Fire Cut cf Ifie Water. HIS DEAR OLD MOTHER. "My dear old mother, who is . now eight v three vears old. thrives on VAw. trio Pitters" writes W. IJ. Purnson of others were fishing in Turkey Creek jjuuiiii, tii. rne nas taken tnem lor one mtrnc lascweeK witn nets, a r.-e- ! t ' - ..it nine, ,yi., j ... - - , While Messrs. Patrick Baily, Frank 'All KlUOS ail tllC 1 JHIC Wmdburn, Buddie Windburn, and about two j-eai-s and enjoys an excellent appetite, feels strong and sleeps well." That's the way Electric Bitters effect the aged, and the same happy results follow in all cases of female weakness and general debility. Weak, puny chi dren too, are crcatlv strengthen bv t them. Guaranteed .also for stomach, liver and kidney troubles, by E. T. Whitehead fe Co., druggist oOc. Color and Light. You never have any trouble to get children to take Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup. They like it because it tastes nearly like maple sugar. Ken nedy's Laxative Cough Syrup is a safe, sure and prompt remedy for colds and cougli3 and is good for every mem ber of the family. Sold by E, T. Whitehead & Co. ' The peculiar simplicity of the country darky in the South is illus trated by a story told by Representa tive John Sharp Williams. An old negro had gone to a post office in Mississippi and ollcred for the mail a letter that was over the weight for a single stamp. "This is too heavy," said the post master. "You will have to put an other stamp on it." ' The U d-jrWa astonishment. "Will anudder stamp it, there couW have been no flame! make it any lighter, boss?" he asked, j without an explosion. j culiar occurrence happened that frightened them and made them leave off fishing unceremoniously. While Mr. Bailey was wading In the water up to his neck and taking fish out of the nets, fire was seen to come up all around him which he says felt warm, and Mr. Bud Wind- burn, who was close to him, say3 he felt the heat. The party is of the opinion that the fire was caused by dynamite which the railroad com pany had been using in the creek to kill fish, but others are of the opinion that it was a mass of phosphorence in which Mr. Bailey stepped, and ris ing, settled upon him and ihe water around him. Of course, if he had stepped on a lot of dynamite and it had exploded, he would not have liv ed to tell the tale. Though dynamite would hardly explode in the soft mud from the jar of a man stepping on Also Complete Outfit. Hearse Service any Time Day or nilit vro are ready to accommodate our friendH and the Public (ieiierally. M. Hoffman &Bro. Scotland Neck North Carolina I) Seed Wii Gats, 9 The effect of Scott's Emulsion on thin, g pale children is magical. g It makes them plump, rosy, active, happy. fa It contains Cod Liver Oil, Hypophosphitea - jg, V- uiiu vjijridJii7, iw inane uamwa ciiju LUlic, a and so put together that it is easily digested uy XllllG 1U1IV. ' Q ALL DRUGGISTS; 50c. AND $t.OO. Wood's Seeds. eat, , Rva and Barley. We are not only the larjrent ilcul-C crs m Seed r:nn m the outli, luit wo s il the Ix-st, clean st and heaviest Urties. Our hloekHurt: secured from the best and lartfcet yicl'ling crops, and o;r warehouse are fully cjuipped with the ltht and most improved machinery for Cleaning. If you waul bupeiior crops Plant Weed's Seeds. Prices quoted on request ") Descriptive Fail Catalogue. if-..:..:. . r, 4 : . . .. l . . . . .. 1 1 seeds, niailod free. T. W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen, Richmond, Va. 1 a.- ip- it1 it I. MS- 1 1 ' 1 m ( L ' 5 ) K 5 It r ' ,- .M ' ' i -. " I I'' ! . 1 i '1 i I- ''I ' M '4 .11 Hi :-!: iv ih- Ar Ml--si .-it j 1!! k I: 1 Sold by E. T. Wniteiieaa a vo.
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