North Carolina Newspapers

Good Advertising Is to Business what Steam is to Machinery, that great propelling power. This paper gives results. COMMOI Good Advertisers Use these columns for rMUlfet. An advertisement in this ptpr will reach a good class of peopl. E. E. MILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. "Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. weal: I .,1 I f 1 VOL. XXIV. New Series Vol. 11.-6-18 SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1908. NUMBER 17. I J i 4f 1 I I I Women as Well as Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble. Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, di courages and lessers ambition; beauty, vigor , .ji- i an cheerfulness soon t-j .-jH disappear when the kid I1T7, nes are of order -wmMttr or diseased- 'Wl&MfQJ Kidney trouble has -" t, 'C-f -n beor,,Tie so prevalent Xibi,. f that it is not uncommon AVJllj' for a chili to be born Vp aiicted with weak kid- HJiVi'Uir- leys- If the child urin- b2sr-r-'''-T" ates too often, if the urine scalds the flesh or if, when the child reaches an age when it should be able tc control the passage, it is yet afflicted with Lfd-vetting, depend upon it, the cause of the diii'ieuhy is kidney trouble, and the first step should be towards the treatment oi these important organs. Thi? unpleasant trouble is due to a diseased condition of the kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as most people suppose. Women as well as men are made mis erable wiih kidney and bladder trouble, and both need the same great remedy. The miid and the immediate effect o: SwampRcot is coon realized. It is sole. cent and one dollar rf5S5fsS sizes. You may have a fl;pj?Ja sample bottle by mail 1 ("e. also pamphlet tell- Home oi' Swamp-Root. ing all about it. including many of the thousands of testimonial letters receivec from sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer t Co., Bir.ghamton, N. Y., be sure am 'rer.tion this papsr. Pon't make any mistake, but re member the name, Swamp Hoot, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, and the address Bingham ton, X. Y., on every bottle. f)R. J. P. WIMBERLEY, Physician and Surgeon, Scotland Neck, N. C. Office on Depot Street. j)R. i. C. LIVERMON, DENTIST. Ollice up stairs in White head Building. Office hours from 9 to 1 o'clock and 2 to 5 o'clock. y w. mxoN, Refracting Optician, Watch Maker, Jeweler, En graver, Scotland Neck, N. C. I ilcBRYDE WEBB, Attorney and Counselor at Law, 210-221 Atlantic Trust Building Norfolk, Va. Notary Public. Bell Phone 7C0 jpDWARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Halifax, N. C. Money Loaned on Farm Lands ILL H. JOSEY, General Insurance Agent, Scotland Neck, N. C. PARKER'S n hail, j t . X . . i v i , i ; .... , 13 r. in nil 4U liiV- t HuvtT Fails to Kestore Ijrrayi .fTSS HM? to its Youthful Color. I tf-ivyw.-- Oua c!p liwam & hair tn.uivj. 1 P!s&f$5 and $1.00 tt nmr$i 1 i jk Kr.mM.a a luxuriant w.l: lose Undertakers' Supplies. Full and Com Line. 1 3 tUJ!t 1 i JH- Coffins and Caskets Burial Robes, Etc. Hearse Service any Time N. B. Jasey Company, Scotland Neck, North Carolina Strength Heart Strength, or Heart Weakness, means Nerve Strength, or Nerve Weakness nothing more. Fo itively. not one weak heart in a hundred Is, In 16. plete Heart self, actually niseasea. ib . iu ,r bidden tiny little nerve that really is all at fault This obscure nerve the Cardiac, or Heart Iierve simply needs, and must have, more power, more stability, more controlling, more governing strength. Without that the Heart must continue to fail, and the stomach and kidneys also have these sam3 controlling nerves. . This clearly explains why. as a medicine. Dr. Shoop's Restorative has in the past done so mucft for weak and ailing Hearts. Dr. Shoop first sought the cause of all this painful, palpitating, suffocat. Ing hrart distress. Dr. Shoop s Restorative this popular prescription is alone directed to these weak and wasting nerve centers. It builds; ifstrengthens; it offers real, genuine heart help. If you would have strong Hearts, strong CU gestion. strengthen these Lnerves re-establisa them as needed, with Dr. Shoop's Restorative A. C. PETERSON. THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS. Observations of Passing Events. To the wage earners in the cities the panic means much more than it does to the same class of persons in the smaller towns and in papers Panics in the Cities. concerning the condition of those "out of work" in the cities. Many times over do they answer advertisements for laborers only to find that they are crowded out by those who have an swered before them. Many times, it is said, persons are allow ed to work "on trial" for a day and at night only a very few of the more efficient are employed while the others go away disap pointed with no return for their day's labor. People in the small towns and in the country have no conception of the situa tion where the people are crowded together in hundreds of thousands. It is so much better in the country where laborers can find employment almost anywhere. Even if they cannot get as high wages as before the panic, it is better than to be thrown out of employment altogether. A dollar is a dollar, one says, everywhere and every time, no more and no less. But sometimes a dollar is more than a The Hard Times Dollar. and in that sense a dollar is more than a dollar. Perhaps the people of this community have not seen the time in a score of years when a dollar was so valuable as now. And this is doubtless true of many other communities. This being true,it is highly important that during these hard times every dollar should be in circulation and doing its full share in relieving what with many is down right distress. It is therefore the duty of every person who owes money to pay it as promptly as possible. A dollar paid to one man to-day will enable that man to pay his dollar debt to another man, and so one dollar in one day may do the work of five dollars. Holding money from those to whom it is due works a hardship on perhaps a dozen persons. Pay your bills promptly these hard times and so keep all the money in circulation possible. If prohibitionists wish and expect to carry the State for pro hibition on May 20th, they will have to "get busy." The Salis . bury correspondent to the Greensboro Liquor Interests Busy. Industrial ew8 recently gave the fol. lowing concerning the activity of the liquor people about Salis bury: "To give an idea of the agressiveness of those opposed to State prohibition, it can be stated that their State headquar ters, in a "suite of offices in the People's National Bank Building, in this city, is at present probably the busiest place in the State. A force of clerks, stenographers, mailers, etc., is busy day and night, and great cartloads of mail sacks, loaded down with campaign documents, are sent to the postoffice every day. So great is this end of the business that an additional clerk has been put on at the postoffice to handle this work. Then, too, lobbyists are covering territory throughout the State, and it is safe to say that every hamlet in the State will be visited by agents sent out by those in charge of the campaign. These headquar ters are in touch with every sympathizer of any influence in the State, and special articles are being run in a number of the State papers under the guise of news matter, when in reality they are paid advertisements. Then, too, the aid of the Nation al Liquor Dealers' Association has been invoked and its press agents have been furnished with the names of thousands of voters throughout the State, with the result that a constant stream of whiskey literature is floating into North Carolina from Chicago, New York, Milwaukee, and other cities. A little pamphlet called "Farm and Home," which is sent out as a farmers' periodical is going into the rural districts. It contains much good farm news, but also contains an abundance of liquor articles." Head-gear is head-gear, no matter whose head it adorns. And seeing is seeing, no matter who sees. But whoever sits in church, lecture room or where-not be TilOSe KatS OB, Well! hind Qne of the au.out-of doors women's hats call them "Merry Widows" or Avhat not will see nothing of a speaker unless he stands on "Tom-walkers" as high as the boys in old Buck-horn township in Harnett county used to walk on as they strode up and down the "mill path" along by "Sam's old shop." A year or two ago it was quite common for every one to threaten anything he did not like with an "in junction." Oh, how we-wish that fad were still f adding and that every mother's son, husband and brother would stand out for their rights in proclaiming-an injunction against the half acre hats that literally put "in the shade" every man who goes to church, lecture or where-not! It seems as if the evil genii had concerted together against the effects of public speaking. Everybody knows that one cannot fully take in what a preach er or lecturerer says unless the speaker can be seen. Truth is, it takes a mighty good man, or woman either, to listen well even to a preacher if he is hidden from view by half -acre hats. The hats themselves are bad enough, but the manner of their use is unnamable. One is worn with a level set, another . .-4.U c'iAc opt nnnthftr with a left side set, an- W It'll Cl tiv v, other with a back set, another with a tip-tront set and the balance each with a separate set apiece. Now just bunch 'em (and they bunch) together a right side set, a left side set,-a back set, a front-tip set, and hen sit. behind mat bunch and you'll go to sleep if the silverest-tongued orator on the face of the earth were speaking or preaching in his most eloquent strains. But the poor little children have to wear hats under whichthey lose their own idenity. "A cat under a col lard" is no adequate expression for it. Oh, well! After all it may not be the fault of the women. They have to wear "new hats " and the season would be over before the style could be "iniuncted" and a new one could be sentjout. It's prohibition year and some evil genius may have sent out the style to keep men from hearing what is said. But we serve notice on the style makers that next year will not be prohibition year in North Carolina, for that question will be settled on May 26th. So we hope that even next fall there may be some relief from the present situation. " ' . - ; 5, r ' Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bit ters is a cleansing blood tonic. Makes you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear-ekinned. the strictly rural districts. The and magazines give sad stories dollar. That is to say, sometimes a dol lar will do more erood than at others, . Stop earache in two minntes ; tooth ache or pain" of burn or scald in five minutes; hoarseness, one hour; mus cleache, two hours ;. sore throat, twelve hours Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil, mon arch over pain. SWAMP LANDS. As Well to Reclaim Them as to Reclaim Arid Lands. f VALUE OF SWAMP LANDS INCREASED. Their Reclamation Is a Yery Impor tant Consideration. (Ralrprh Times.) Having made good progress in the policy of reclaiming the arid lands of the west by the construction of irri gation works out of the proceeds of public-land sales the p-overnment is that much nearer the day when it will undertake the redemption of swamp lands. The area of the public do main naturally available for agricul ture will soon be fully occupied by settlers. Only by artificial means of irrigation and drainage can it be ex tended on "a large scale. In a recent report to the senate by Secretary Wilsoc it is estimated that there are 79,005,023 acres of swamp and overflowed lands in several states which may be reclaimed for agriculture, exclusive of coast lands overflowed by tidewater. These wet lands in area about equal the entire territory of New Mexico or the six New England ststes, New York and New Jesey taker together. "About one-fifth of the vhole amount lies in Florida and one-eight in Louisiana. Arkansas, Minnesota and Mississippi have each over 5,000,000 acres re quiring drainage to be fit for farm ing purposes, and California, Geor. gia, Michigan, North Carolina and South Carolina aterage approximate ly 3,000,000 each. The total increase in the market value of the swamp lands of the United States by reclamation, it is estimated, would be nearly $1,600, 000,000, with an annually increased production of about $275,000,000. This would be an immense addition to the nation's Svealth. It would mean 160,000 farms on an average of fifty "acres each of great fertility, representing honv:s for perhaps 1, 000,000 people and giving lucrative employment to a vast army of farm laborers, who in turn would feed and draw on a large city population for supplies. In 1850 congress granted to the states in which thsy were located all federal swamp ani overflowed land3, but states admitted after that date did not receive the benefit of the act, Of the whole amount in the United States, according to Secretary Wil son's estimate, about four-fifths have been covered by daims of the states and patented to them. f .This is an ob stacle to action by the federal gov ernment, but witl the growing scar city of cheap faming lands and with rising values, it seems reasonable to suppose that a wiy will ultimately be found to reclai.n this immense un productive area. FOREST PRESERVATON " RECLAMATION IN CAROLINA, AND SWAMP NORTH The following has just been receiv ed from Washington : North Carolina is another state which is showing an'interest in prac tical forestry. Between 1892 and 1900 the North Carolina Geological Survey investigated the forest re sources of the State. The wide spread popular interest in forestry, the fact that the State Board of Edu cation owns 750,000 acres of wild swamp land has shown the need for further work in foresty in the State. The North Carolina Geological Survey and the Board of Education are cooperating in an investigation of the swamp lands and at the same time will carry on educational work showing the need of forest manage ment with the object of securing the adoption by the State of a perma nent forest policy in managing the public lands, and in giving assistance to private forest owners. The work will be in charge of W. W. Ashe, who is at present in the office of services, United States Forest bervice. and will be conducted under the direc tion of the State Geologist. The lands of the Board of Educa tion present two problems: first, to determine the portion which is suit able for agriculture and eliminate it for farms, second, to devise means for replanting the open lands, which are of large extent. In addition to the public lands the private forests are so extensive as to rank among the State's most important natural resources, a large part of them be ing on mountain land suited only for forests, and protecting mem uum fire. : . xhe forests interests of North Car olina rank third among its industries. The necessity for perpetuating the lumber and furniture manufactur- ing business of the State, and the relation of the forests and the de nuded lands of the Piedmont Plateau to the water power and cotton man ufacturing interests will make the adoption of a permanent forest pol icy by North Carolina a very impor tant step in its commercial history. Putting Life TntTworh. (By Irine Gardner.) Let me tell you about two women I have talked with lately. One is something over 50 and looks every year her age, because, having passed the half century mark she has made up her mind that her life work is about accomplished and all she need do now is to take a back seat and watch the procession move by. The result is, this woman is unin teresting and unhappy. She has no strong hold on anything, feels that the world does not need her, and, to uphold her pessimistic view.of ten re efers to the Osier theory than which nothing could be more absurd. The other woman is well along in the 60s, and when I met her one day last week it was in her own studio, which is one of the most famous of its kind in the world. From it every week are sent out photographs that astonish even the most critical, so ar tistic are they, so plainly the work of a skilled and inspired hand and brain. And it is this woman who poses every subject, finishes every picture. I saw one of the great Rodin that made me catch my breath, so strong and true it was, showing the man's marvelous genius as well as his fea tures. The grav-haired woman who had taken that photograph and finished it held it from her with a look on her face that fascinated me. "No won der I feel young," she said, "for I find my life in my work the vitality of work is inexhaustible. Grow old? I never think of it. I would that I might live forever, to forever catch the beauty I see in human beings and reproduce it in my pictures." "Ye3," in reply to a question I had asked, "I am married and have quite a family. Some way they have always been woven into my work as a part of it, although, apparently, my home and my studio are separ ate. But they and I know that this is not so. "There, how do you like that?" She handed me a picture of a mother standing looking out of a window, her face half turned away. A boy was standing by her side while a lit tle curly-haired girl of three, or thereabouts, stood on the window seat, her back turned to the room, also looking down into the street. The sun came flooding through the window and bathed them all in a glorious light. Oh," I exclaimed, "It is wonder .r.,i wcf bountiful Thotorranh T wi,m AiA v taV it?" C V CI OS fwv" " "Only a day or two ago, and I must say I enjoyed finishing it. Aren't the children little dears: 1 love to take the picture of the little ones. And so she went on, this woman of near 70, and as she talked I thought of that other woman, who, having passed the half-century mark, feels that there is little need for her in this world. There is no calendar except that marked by achievement for this ar tist I have told you about. But for the other woman, life seems nothing but years, made up of months., days, hours, minutes and seconds. Newspaper Business. (New Bern Su n.) Considered as a manufacturing en terprise, newspaper making is enor mously hazarduous and absurdly un remunerative. With the very many other manufacturing concerns all over the country, the rule is that if they don't make profits they are shut down, but that is not so with news papers. They always have moral and political reasons for clinging to life, long after there has ceased to be anv neeuniarv warrant for it. A newspaper in these days is about as r - likely to clear a dividend as a church is. Competition between papers is intense and the prices of nearly all of them is too low, the cost of paper manufacture is too high, and they Ani f rvr mneH for the . i . i. meagre one cent or two cents wmcn seems to be the standard prices novv charged for the daily issue of news papers. A Certain Core for Acnlng Feet. ci,.,i-a mtn v-inv s'noes Allen's Foot- . ,1 t nm-ns TiiWl Xoh fcase, a powuc. ";' T." iriT CallOUS Sweating, SWOiien ieet. ing, taiious, oniaiH fc, : P :-i A ci,,. Cf-oa n l- -c..-. ll(n S Olm if on i riivi' isi.p Mini k. : 1 1 chviv . v campie sted, LeRoy, ST. Y. MAMMOTH MAPS. Two Specially Prepared for The Forest Service. THE GREAT WORK OF FIFTEEN MEN. Only One Room In Forest Quarters Large Enough for Them. (Cor. to The Commonwealth.) -Washington D. C, May 1, 1908. Two unique map3 of the United States will be used at the coming White House conference on natural resources. They are perhaps the largest detailed maps of this coun try made by mechanical process. Each map without its frame meas ures twelve feet in height and six teen feet in length, and is to all practical intent, a mammoth photo graph. The only room in the quarters of the Forest Service large enough to accommodate the maps was the of fice of Gifford Pinchot, the Forester, who was accordingly driven out by the workmen to make a place for mounting the monster maps. The maps will be framed and set up in the East Room at the White House, on either side of the platform to be used by the presiding officer and the speakers. The platform will be set against the east wall midway be tween the north and south walls, and both it and the maps will be in plain view of all who attend the confer ence. These maps, which are now being completed by the Forest Service, represent the labor of fifteen men. The time required in the manufac ture of each was six days and four nights, the draughsmen working three shifts in order to complete the work in time for the big White House meeting. Each is a counterpart of the very complete map made and used by the Forest Service. The method of manufacture was very unusual. The reproduction was done by photography. The regular Forest Service map, which measures five feet by teveu, was divided into sixteen sections, and a photograph was made of each of these sections. Each negative measured eleven by fourteen inches, and from each was made by the bromide process an en larged print measuring about three by four feet, of these prints there were sixteen, which were assembled and mounted upon strong linen. Three men were required to handle each sheet, and it proved a difficult task to accurately match the sec tions. After the photographers had com pleted their work, the map was turn ed over to the draughsmen, for whom a special draughting table had to be made. On either side of this table was a heavy roller, by the use of which the map was moved across the table at the convenience of the draughtsmen. On the maps all the natural resources are graphically shown and the. features of special in terest to the Conference have been brought out boldly. King Cotton. (R. H. Edmonds, in The Youth's Companion.) The South is producing an average of about twelve mil'ion bales of cot ton a year. The time is v rapidly coming when this must be increased to twenty million bales or more to meet the world's requirements. The gain in consumption will re quire an average of half a million bales a year. At this gain it would require but ten years to make it nocessary for the South to raise seventeen million or eighteen million bales annually. There is no reason why the world will not eventually need forty million j w" ' . . . .! or fifty million bales or more of , Southern-grown cotton; and with good prices and an increase in the labor supply, even this would not be the limit of the South's ability. j The practical monoply of cotton production is a potential power fcr : the South as great as would be an j equally strong domination of the world's iron-ore supply. Sooner or later, when this section tuny comprenenub li.i it will make the world pay tribute to its coffers, just as would ERgland or any other country which owned tV,o mrld' iron ores the world s iron oies. ry reason ui mio wv.wn Limrars nnnrlit. tft hfl the mOSt PrOS- ; f - the world, and in j me they doubtless will be. NOTICE TO OUR CUSTOMERS. We are pleased to announce that Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs, colds and lung troubles is not affected - 1 hv the. National Pure Food and Drug T' u fn; rt nnintcs or other lnn, rto iv wui. - , - , j..,, Q.,fi recommend it 'ri.irmfu druff?. ana we recomiuemi u - . ...... - as a safe remedy for children and , T -h4tplieail Company, I adults "Constancy." (F. L. Stanton.) It is something, Sweet! when th world goes ill, To know you are faithful and love mc still; To feel when the sunshine has left the skies, The love-light shining in your dear eyes! Beautiful eyes more dear to me Than the tenderest eyes of earth could be! It is something, dearest, to feel you near. When Life, with its sorrows, Beems hard to bear; To feel when I falter, the clasp di vine Of your tender and trusting hand in mine. (Beautiful hand! dearer to me Than the beautiful things of earth could be!) Sometimes, dearest, the world goes wrong, . For God gives grief with His gift of song, And poverty, too! But your love is more To me than riches and golden store. Beautiful love! until Death shall part It is mine, as ycur are, my own sweetheart! Itcliinp: )ilcM provoko profanity, but profanity won't euro tlieni. Doan's Ointment t ines itching, l)locdin; or protruding piles after yea re of imfier hi. At any drug xtore. Prudent Swain If I were to steal a kiss would it scare you so that you would scream? Timid Maiden I couldn't. Fright always makes me dumb. Baltimore American. Kidney complaint kills morn jooplft than any other disease. This i. due to the disease heing so insidious that it Rets a good hold cn tho system Ix-fore it is recognized. Foley's Kidney Cure will prevent the development of fatal disease if fciken in time. K. T. White head Company. "I hate to call on a girl, "said Tom, "who can t do anything but indulge in small talk." "Yes," replied wise Dick, "especially if what she has to say is a very short no." Washing ton Herald. MnnZan Pile Remedy comes ready lo use, put uj in a eollapsilile tule w itli nozzle attached. One Application pro von its merit. Soothes and heals, reduce inflammation ami relives soreness and itching. For all forms of Piles. Price 50e. (luarantccd. .Sold by R. T. Whitehead Co. Miss Coy I know, George, why you firemen are usually bachelors. George Why? Miss Coy Because you have so many flames that you can't settle down with one. Boston Tran e r ip t Weak women should read my "IJook No. 4 For Women." It was written expressly for women who arc not well. The Book No. A tells of Dr. Shoop' "Nifd't Cure" and just how these soothing, healing, antiseptic supMi toiies can be successfully applied. The book, and strictly confidential medical advice is entirely free. Write Dr. Shoop, Kacine, Wis. The Nip;h Cure is sold by A. C. Peterson. "Life at best is but a gloomy pris-. on," said the moralizing bachelor. "So much the worse for men who de liberately choose solitary confine ment," remarked the girl who had a trap set. Bohemiam. There is a Pink Pain Tablet made by Dr. Slump, that will positively stop any pain, anywhere, in L'O minutes. Druggists everywhere sell them as Dr. Shoop's Headache Tablets, but they ntop other pains as easily as headache. Dr. Shoop's Pink Pain Tablets simply coax blood pressure away from pain centers that is all. Pain comes from blood pressure congestion. Stop that P're with Dr. Ship's "dache Tablets and i;iin is instantly gone. JiJ T1)k.t V- Sold lv A. C. Peterson. : : rrr. Mrs. Crimsonbeak I see by this paper that in the British Museum there is a huge rope of hair weight-' ng nearly two tons. Crimsonbeak Those American women traveling abroad are so careless, aren't they? Yonkers Statesman. . T , ; " , Tired m-rvw, with that no umU- tion lceinig mat is t-oiiiuioi.i) i n m . . . .,..... .. t. easily an(1 ,"IIH.kly a'it0rcd ,y taking what is j known to druggists everywhere as Dr. Shoop's P.estorativc One will abso- Mutely note a changed fef ling within IK l)(,inmn,, to uli(t the v t ....... 'i ie bowels get s-Iugguli in Ul. ;mn ll, -r,-iA tun nffrti up Uk" are iai tiVe, acd J rven t0 nP:irt in many eases gnms decidedly weaker. Dr. Shoop Kestc rative is recognized everywhere as a cenuine tonic to these vital organs. Jt builds up and strengthens the worn out weakened nerves; it sharpens the failing appetite, and universally aids digestion. It always quickly brings renewed strength, life, vigor, ami nm- j bition. Try it and be convinced. Scld j by A. C. I'eterson. -