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Good Advertising Is to Dtriiiefia vlwit Sttwan Is to M-aehinery. th.it great proposing powor. This paper gives results. Good Advertisers Tie llirv o..hirani fvir rEultff. A.i :!.!truv!innt in thia.papor will r-mh :: wood e!y, f ioi,',. t. E. M'LLIARD, Editor end Proprietor. 'Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price il.00 Per Ytur. NUMBER 51. VOL XXIII. New Series Yo!. 1I.--6-1S SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 1908. 1 HE LOMMONWE MP Women as Well as Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble. Kii'ney trouble preys upon the mind, did c: -Tzgss and lessens ambition; beauty, vigor .. i i cheerfulness soon 0' . -Jr disappear when the kid- 'tf'uViA. :&r or diseased. 'T.tySj '-- Kidney trouble has V.b .-v j- j tnat it is not uncommon , I H for a chili to be born VvVW v'5 afflicted with weak kid- t WXzH'i---1 revs. If the child urm- ITi---"6-" "r ales too often, if the ir.ina scalds the flesh or if, when the child n.,v;hes an age when it should be able to ;-.ntrol the praae. it is yet afflicted with bej-ws'tif.g:. depend upon it. the cause oi t'-.i difficulty $s k'dr.ey rrr ur ic, and the first :-p should bs toward hs treatment c' tn-.-s i-Tiportarit organs. Thi.s unpleasant trouble is cue to a diseased condition of the Kidneys and bladder and not to a habit &z j.-est people s-jppose. Women as well t.s men are made mis e; b' with kidney and bladder trouble, ::d both need the same great remedy. 1 he mild and the immediate effect of i' v. amp-Roc-t is soon realized. It is sok' I druggists, in fifty- fZfgZp iiiis. You ma havo a settle by mail -vi, also pamphlet tell- Rnm ,- smnvR. ing all about it, including many cf the thousands cf testimonial letters received from sufferers cu:ed. In writing Dr. Kilmei Co.. Binghamton, N. Y., be sure anc ' r.enticn this paper. Don't make any mistake, but re njonilicr tlie name, Swam;) Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, and the address IMinghamton, T. Y., on every bottle. r! MILLS Land Surveyor Scotland Xeek, X. C. ll-2-?-tf Q p. SNiTi!, fl. D. Physician and Surgeon, Scotland Xcck, X. C. ( ,T:ee in the Nov.- Rank Rui'.din.ar, )K. J. P. WlfkLCY, Physician and Surgeon, Scotland Neck, N. C. O.Tiee on Depot Ptreet. ER. A. C LIVERMON, DENTIST. Oinee up stairs in White GVe& head Building. ( ftlce hours from 9 to 1 o'clock and 2 to 5 o'clock. 7. nixoN, IvEFK ACTING OPTICIAN, "Watch Maker, Jeweler, En graver, Scotland Neck, N. C. Mc3YDE WEBB, Attorney and Counselor at Law, 219-221 Atlantic Trust Building Norfolk, Ta. Notary Public. Bell Phone 374 DWASDL TRAVIS,' Attorney and Counselor at Law, Halifax, N. C. Money Loaned on Farm Lands YiLL f! JOSEY, General Insurance Agent, Scotland Neck, N. C. Day & Hedges, Livery Buggies Harness Whips Robes Tarboro. North Carolina n?i3 s tup (firmd-i a u Ma warn -mr - - SAND GV&B "THE WITH 3 mm FC Trial Botue rrea ! AS ALL THROAT AND LUNG TROUBLES i GTJASAHTUEO SATISFAOTOSYj OB MONEY KEFUNDED" R1MGS DYSPEPSIA "WBLETS Relieve Indlgettlon itnd Stomach Trouble. W?0&i HAIR BALSAM ftsr?i X'j3 fncicse and t-e&auflea tin bait .;".fcS:SK?:evri Fails to licstore Gray fa-- Curst "".'! Cni ha" UKiug. f THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS. Observations of Passing Events. i Now that leap year has come, how many of us have experienced a change of feeling? Has there been any change of atmosphere? You old batche- Leap Year. you think your burden of love-making will be lightened? Do you believe the blushing maiden will be less modest than before? Any way, we single men hail 1908 with a great deal of pleasure. Now we can shift responsi bility and permit the fair ones to assume the aggressive. If at the end of the year, one of us is yet single it will not be our fault. We sit in palpi tating silence and await the appeararce of "the leap year girl." From time immemorial her coming has bee hern Mod with each approach of leap year, yet how many of us have seen her! She i3 ever coming yet never ar rives. Most of the talking is done by the girls. They contend for their leap year rights and dare us timid fellows, yet continue to leave the job to us. Now let "her" come! In reality let her come! Ordinarily there is little reason in that foolish custom of society which forbids a girl3 aggres sion in love-making; extraordinarily that is, during leap year there is absolutely no reason. Then why not carry out the joke (if joke it be)? why not fulfill the tradition? We hunger for her smiling face and winning ways, her wooing words and bold manner! We assure her of a hearty reception! ! When this reaches our readers 1907 will have passed rway. As we turn j from place to place to-day, we are reminded of the passing of the old ! Th8 Old acd tbe New. u A" d f expectancy has I filled the human heart; and even though unex- pressed, it is transferred from one to another of us in some inexplicable way and we know that it is there. Each heart, with seeming ungrateful- ness has turned from the hoary passing year, whose strength is nearly j spent, to the cherubic face of the coming year. And why? It's one of the curious qualities in the make-up of man; and fight it as he may it, like murder, will ever out. Uncertainty, change! The desire for something ! new, the possibility of the unexpected! God in the creation of man, saw j this germ of unrest, and wisely withheld the power of divination. Even j heaven and the future are left to . the imagination, for "it doth net yet I appear what we shall be." And thus with the years! With joy we "ring ; out" the passing year and welcome the coming new. Man must have ' change. So deep-rooted is this principle that it appears in every phase of 1 1 me. ciop tne current oi tne nowing r ri , i i r , 1 a ! pond! Cage the singing bird and it sickens and dies! Stop the action of a muscle and withers. Tax the mind with but one thought and man be i comes a monomaniac. Change and the future! So closely are they allied, they become inseparable. Through them together, comes the thought of S something new, which is the very life of man. It is the buoyancy of youth, the strength of manhood; and when man is nearing the grave the thought is transferred from himself to his children, and he continues to cling to life for their sake3. Even when death is about to close the eyes and : stiffen the limbs, man looks beyond the grave to a brighter future. Thus throughout life we tire of the old and welcome the new. Scarcely has ! an anticipated pleasure been realized than we look for another; scarely j have ambititions been fulfilled than we are striving for more. Thus it is, : has been, will ever be. We are not less grateful of the past, but more i hopeful of the future. The happiest man is the one who quickly forgets ; unpleasantness of the past, labors in the present, and looks to the future. I Thus we turn with beating hearts to the youthful year and look for all that it can give! As I sat in my study on New Year's eve and watched the slow-moving hands as they marked'off the passing minutes; and then counted the New Year Resolutions. into silence; and listened to the ringing of bells and the burst of merry voices, I thought of the coming year with all its possibilities.. This solemn prayer filled my soul and formed itself upon my lips: "Give me, O my God, the charity to champion; the bravery to befriend; the pity to protect; the sincerity to shield; the tenderness to be true; thelovingnesstobeloyal; the courage to be candid; the magnanimity to be merciful; the recitude to reveal my brother's good points and to dwell on his virtues!" Yesterday I discarded last year's calendars, and placed a new one upon my wall. There it hangs intact, every leaf present, with but a single day gone! It is the symbol of the coming year, as it slowly unfolds itself day by day. All that lies beneath the surface is unseen and unused. It is to us a closed book. We have not time to think of the past, we cannot look into the fu ture, we must use the present! Let us then face each day, as we faced the New Year with the "turning of new leaves," the making of resolu tions. It is a beautiful custom this making of resolutions, which are soon forgotton! The tender year too soon becomes mature. Man is prone to grow indifferent. We should live our resolutions over day by day. Each morning they should be rehearsed, and thus remembered and practiced during the day. In this way they will have meaning, and at the close of the year our lives will have been shaped thereby. For no thought so brief, no wish so vain, but that it affects to some extent the human heart; and as the heart is, so will the face be, and finally the whole man. God does his work by the slow process of evolution, and so must we. Rome was not built in a day! Neither can man fashion a vast fabric of resolutions, t ) the practice of which his life has been unaccustomed, and bring himself with but a moment's thought to keep them. They must be written down and rehearsed daily. God has placed within our hands tools we know not of and given us possibilities we do not realize. To man every thought, every momentary wish is but the indication of a possibility. The human f of that which, to it, is entirely unknown. Thought must be preceded by the jotting down fragments; their joining is sometimes desire There must first be a soul wan some capauun, uVl when desire comes it can be fulfilled, if man will only develop that capac ity -whether little or great. This is always true. Man can have any vnnr ifhewill only pay the price. Emerson's law of compensation is 8 i Thus with resolutions. There eternal, and ever present in resolution. when the resolution IStTrtrf dlt upon and a part of us and can then be realized. Rings Little Liver Tills wakf UP Uvew clean the system and clears the kin ' Try thenfor bilUousness and eick headache. Price 2oc. bold by i,. T. Whitehead & Co. lors and timid youths, do you feel any nearer the married state than you did last year? Do i r a j i . , . stream, anu it oecomes a stagnant twelve strokes and heard them echo and re echo through the vacant rooms and sink in the brain of thousands of little called thought creation. Thus with lived over and over, it will become It depends upon the pill you take. Pe Witt's Little Early Risers are the best pills known for constipation and sick headache. Sold by E. T. White head & Co. Just a Smile, (The Cotton Plant.) You can drive the clouds away With a smile, Just a smile; Turn the darkness into day With a smile, Just a smile; Oh, there's nothing, when a man Feels the weight of sorrow' yoke, In this whol wide world that can All distress and g rief reyok, As a smile. Just a smil. How the way is brightened up By a smil ' Just a smile; Sweetened is the bitter sup By a smile, Just a smile; Oh, the world may frown at you, And your spirits try to blight, But the skies are ever blue, If you always have in sight Just a smile, Merry smile. It's a simple little thing, Is a smile, Just a smile; But 'twill joy and gladness bring, Will a smile, Just a smile; Many hearts will dry their tears And go singing on their way, And they'll put away their fears, Thinking of the glad to-day, By your smile, Gladsome smile. How the heavy burdens fall, By a smile, Just a smile; Hope again beams over all, By a smile, Just a smile; Lonely live3 are cheered each day, Duties lightened .hearts made glad, Heaven's beauty fills the way. If to kindly words you'll add Just a smile, Happy smile! By E. A. Brininstool. "Blest Be tea Tie." Not one in a thousand of those who sing that good old hymn, "Blest Be the Tie That Binds," knows tho history of its homely origin. According to the Church Eclectic, it was written by the Rev. John Fawcett, who in the latter part of the eighteenth century was the pas tor of a poor little ckurch in Lock shire, England. His family respon sibilities were large; his salary was less than $4 a week. In 1772 he felt himself obliged to accept a call to a London church. His farewell sermon had been preached, six wagons loaded with iurniture and books stood by the door. His congregation, men, wo men and children, were in an agony of tears. Mrs. Fawcett and her husband sat down on a packing case and cried with the others. Looking up, Mrs. Fawcett said: "Oh, John, John, I cannot bear this! I know not where to go!" "Nor I either," said he; "nor will we go. Unload the wagons, and put everything back in its old place." His letter of acceptance to the London church was recalled, and he wrote this hymn to commemorate the episode. Save tne Trees. (American Farmer.) Any fool can destroy a tree, but it takes Mother Nature a century or more to make one. The famous temple of Diana at Ephe3us, costing untold millions and one of the won ders of the world, was set on fire by a fool that "wanted to get his name in the papers." Those that fell trees seldom plant them. During a man's life only saplings can be grown to : take the place of the centuries, old i tree3 that have been destroyed. It took more than 3,000 years to make some of the trees in the Western i woods and to build up the noble primeval forests, which the greedy sawmill men ruined in a few years. Nature preserves the tress for een turies, saving them from drought, disease, avalauches ane a thousand straining leveling tempests and floods but she can not save them from the fools. If we could kill off all the fools j we might save the trees, but the population would be dreadfully re duced. Uncle Sam has undertaken the job of saving our remaining for- ests from tne roots ana tne irauas. : OtrCIlSLIl IAJ llio tiauu, A DANGEROUS DEADLOCK, that sometimes terminates fatally, is tho stoppage of liver and boTvel functions. To quickly end this condition without disagreeable sensations, Dr. King's New Life Pills should always be your rem edy. Guaranteed absoluteiy tatiafac- i m .run nr mnnAT Vmp.lr. at E. T. Whitehead Co.'s drug store. 25c. i MARCH Or NEMESIS. Preachers Drank a Hundred Years TIMES HAVE CHANGED. ( American Farmer. ) In 1811, nearly one hundred years ago, there was at the present site of Brooklyn, Indiana, a curious combin ation in the way of a man. He was preacher, farmer, distiller and bar keeper all rolled in one. He had come into the then territory in 1797, and was the first Methodist minister among the early settlers on the Whitewater. The town of Brooklyn, in Franklyn county, near the Ohio border, was laid out in 1807, just a century ago, and this preaching whiskey seller was main actor in starting the place. On Sunday he preached regularly to his congrega- toin of surrounding settlers, mostly small farmers, and after services "set up the liquor" to the "sin-sick souls." Everybody drank in those days, what they called "drams," the white and water-clear product of the old-fashioned copper still. In fact, the first industry in every pioneer community was a distillery, being regarded as equally important with the mill that ground the grain. The preachers were all tipplers and many of them drank to excess and the very first of all the temperance reform movements in this country was or ganized for the express benefit of the clergy. Times have changed. We want our readers, especially the farming class, to take note of the contrast presented between 1807 and 1907 and the eventful century interven ing. Take note of Parson Man waring, mixing his sermons and whiskey in the same log cabin, where entertainment was furnished "for man and beast," then look around in the rural community where you live and count up the farmers who drink liquor in excess or even in moderation. A drinking preacher, of course, would no longer be toler ated. He is as extinct as the dodo. No liquor is served on the sideboards as it was in 1807 in every home. Drinking has become unpopular and unfashionable. No farmer thinks of serving whiskey in the harvest field, as was universal a hundred and even fifty years ago. The churches are now all standing in solid column be hind the temperance movement. The W. C. T. U., the Y. M. C. A., the Endeavorers and other Christian as sociations are all working heroically against the universal curse. The advance has been great and no class has benefitted more from the reform than the tillers of the soil. There is not a strictly farming community in the United States where the saloon ha3 a particle of show in a standup vote. The farmer has become sober. He finds better use for his com than to run it through a still; better use for his fruit than to convert it into the brain-maddening "apple-jack." Nemesis is marching on! This goddess, sacred in the old Greek cal endar to revenge, is coming into her own. The fight has been long, the battles have been bloody, the cen turies are strewn with millions of men dead from drink, with countless homes wrecked and ruined, with blasted reputations, with seared consciences, with that hope deferred which maketh the heart sick. John Barleycorn, generalissimo of the hosts of evil, the beasts of prey, the legions of devils, the fiends incar nate, is being driven to the wall. The scorpion is being surrounded with fire. The bounds of the hunted tiger grow less and less. The hosts of hunters press on, remorselessly, mercilessly, armed with argument. Don't neglect your cough. '."''X",';' Statistics show that in New York City alone over 200 people die every week from consumption. And most of these consumptives might be living now if they had not neglected the warning cough. You know how quickly Scoff' fy Emulsion enables cough or cold. ALL DRUGGISTS business reasons, moral .suasion, de cency, self-preservation, the hopes of civilization. At this beginning of the eighth year of the twentieth century, we can report progress. The temperance movement is sweep ing the country in an irresistible wave and soon, it is avaerLcd, i:o whiskey will be sold in the Unitel States except in the lai gcr civile.-, in- to which the criminal elements of the country will flock. Tho trend U toward enforced abstinence and the makers of liquor are plainly alarnJ. Nearly 40,000,000 people, about half the population of the country, now live in temperance territory. All the eleven Southern States have not as many saloons a3 the one city k,1 New York. Georgia has full prohi-; bition; Alabama, majority of tho counties already diy; Arkansas, l-.o- thirds of the counties dry; Flori hi, thirty-seven cut of forty-fivo coan- ! ties dry; Kentajky, ninety-nine out of 119 countiesdry; Louisiana, sevci.- eights of the country districts dry; : : Mississippi, seventy out cfsevent-l;e 1 r countiesdry; Texas, two-thirds dry, and so it goes all along the The North is falling into line rapidly j -and the great red dragon is on il.ej run everywhere. Whoever you : . 1 i 1 tl . n i j wnetner you can yoursoit Kf?.' ',n Justice, Morality, Sanity, Patriot i.-:n, Decency, Civilization, hasten to e n roll yourself in the g. oat army of freedom co as to be in at the of the Blatant Boast. death Gi:r Lanycr. (.-'omlif j n Aj;ri-ii!t uriM.) One who has been induced to o:-n- vey property by fraud may oi!'.;."r have the conveyance set aside, un!r. v.; the property has pasfeod to a pur- chaser without 'iotice rf the fiw.id, ' or he may allow the conwyanct' to i i i i BiailU &UU !)IIC iOi UdlliJUt'S. Tho possession of pvopot ty mvnt- ly stolen does not warrant the icS.-i ence that the person in v,ho?e p : session such properly is found is guilty of Itrcny. It is the unex plained poe.'.sion which constiti'L.'s pri.;a -?vla:.;f of Ihr . .7- -. if-,, t!l ineimpii-ca power ot a wiJo bind her husband for r necessaries where it 63 ists, is for her own bene fit, and not for the benefit of the.:;; with whom she may deal. The Supreme Ccurt of Iowti ;-.n-nounces the rulo of law that a per son who can read who .signs a con tract 'without reading it or having, it read to him i.s bound by it. ai- - tVinno-1-i itts ni-nvliicn! I !iTfi.-rn f- , from what he supposed them to be. ; It is a well settled principle of the ! w of agency that a principal who ! law acceps an order for good.-J obtained by an agent is bound by the agent'. act in obtaining it, though he v;, ed tlie principal's instruc tio:-".. Western Manufacturing Co. v. C ton (Ky.) 104 Southern Rep., 73H Where a deed is evidently crawn i by one not sKineu in sucu woi greater latitute is permitted and 11- s attention paid to teclmk'-a1 wor'ls i i construing the instrument thiin would otherwise ba the eane. A trustee of a'school district vh":o school had been abandoned cannot be compelled by mandamus to fun; ish a conveyance for pupils toanoth-; er district school! When you want the le-t, ;;i ! I Wilt's C:uhi!iz(l V it. h I!;ii'i Sa' It is good for little or hi."; en', I i ! -bruises, anrl ii e?iieeiallv r nenen- f'r iHOa. Co. Sold hv K. T. V'hilc!i'e "What would you do if your daughter had a talent for pir.no play ing such as mine has'.'" "Well, I'd try to be res'gnc-d." Cleveland Leader. 1 :f 3 you to throw off a .0. f 50c. AND $1.00. 4 JOURNEY is Many in unit Li W .1 . I. vv I'Ui'.lrn t Wit';.! i i . i i - .:. n N. Ti "f.; a hvk . , t!,.- ,r : .m.l l , ;!:.:. i : th.- -, ; , . -v.; i ; i : 1 1 y !! . r T T-, ilir.Itti,i. 'V i.' ':-.-y i!!. ki i.. y i'.'N lriicw mill mr ;.':.!. hi -.;). li ickl;tyi .f '. ' l iiiillo; ' i X. ('., iiy : . U; I -U'i'i'lV I with il I m ..I ;!. ::''' '!ly lu" i (ii.-or.lors nf !';, 'I'll'' MTp'li'Ml-1 WCi'f Jill ' 'A' !:M k ilMtl full .i ,s.'.! i ;!.! '!' I ..:'. Ki.',,fy WU i 'in ,ii ii li'ii:4 !:v, .nii'l !;;ii :';.. i. . 'i iri.-d. They ix-.ti.-,l ; t iln-ir ituturol color, i!. t'..:i i norm.;! unit ! ::i ' ii i 'k til it it o.'. ' In Ui'.'t I Iimvo not !! !,i I t'M 'l t!i ivnicily.'' ! ; :i tit.iWy. Vvcv ;. !'. i :i!!..nni Co., Cutl'.ilo, !. : : (or tli. Unit. -I ,., I 1-Vr Y. i?cn5cn!;cr Kic nartic Doon's oS!:cr. cn Har.U f) ij U'.v-A - All 77 4 si ilie Time. Li, '3 ( '.'IT '.V:.' (""; : Lie - - f . ii?3F5C SS,V!C Gfiy ilHIC !y i AV.' ;!!( V.C MI" l'f'fKlV :ihi$(3 one frir-TViS i'di.ik' (Jonornllv. Vi ;Jii 1 ' : . V 5. f? 0 v$ . r S otlan. North 'arolina P C?.ic Be Cured? f K hi Can. We want every man ar.d woman in the United Suites to know what wo on: lo)vr - -. are corin.'j (Mincers, i timor.s .'ir.il ( r. route oros wilnout the i:-:t i rf I knife or by X-ray, and y ihe Senate and Log- are endo t'O '.'i : i'tf! ! : I't . V GUARANTEE CUR CURES. PI? A W T- IT A I " L'JOl 1 1 IL., Ko. 1C15 V,'tst flain Street, r:' i r' vr.... -.u, v irnu, 112 -11 POSTED : Paving l-'-'.-e:l fiorn the owners Uio NICHOLS' h; Iiy aci!ii'-i:-; here' y !! " (' '; ) i i I. J lltACJ' of kmd.lhere- eyhisive control, I etif-o t" ALL l'KKSONS NT, lilAP oi: TIU1S iivnner or form, under i.iw, n this tract of ! v t ihed heiow, and known ;!,-m Lrin-j;" 'i it.; ' of the lr.u cx ori'dnal rem l L.J I- : 7 c! 1, o'inded on the i by Gyui.s gut, en '.r!;'.s ce.nal and Roa- nr.it h :vvl east by J. Davis Keid's and land, containing acr- s r.i jre or lees, .i. P. Ft'TItlXI.. !e '.-.) ICeiiaedy's t? V C 0 COrJTAIMJ HONEY AND TAR Hclicvcs Cdds by workinjj them out cf t'..3 fjVjm through a copious and h:-:!thy action cf tha bowels. Cy:?.. by cleansing the rr.'Jco :3 n:nbnr.cs cf tha taroat, chest and Lrcnr'-b.l tubes. 4 A :.X ta the taste a Like It For -al - by L T. Whitehwul & Cr. ' V.'h- 11 (';" :,!"!:;. h. II. art or Kid ' ny n- ; v,i ;.k, :l.e;i 1 1 . si' ora.iis i iJu-jy-- lai!. 1- 1 t ! ;-i th- weak Stoni ; arh. nor :l imn!;(" 1h( Heart or Kid ney. That is . "1:1;. ly a inake.-liift. (i( t i !i lix .'-iij'ti":i l.'iio'Mi to lniits eveiy ; wheiv a l)c. Si 1. .; f.- i;e.Jil:iive. Tlie j !!itor.i! iv; is ii!"j!iii( i cxjirei-ly for ' t!ie?e w.t'x i.i-i!e !,ei t . Strenghten ,-the.-e i! ;'-, l-niid theiu r.p 'with Dr. Shoo-' i;. -t'.iativ tahk ts or liipiid i and see how 'piiokly h !p will eonie. i Free'-it ij te.t sent on re(piO!t by j Dr. SiKx;, Ilacine, Wis. Your health . i surely worth th:.-? mplu tet. A. C. i ret-cr.on.
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