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Good Advertising Commonw: Good Advertiser Use these columns for rttfoka. An advertisement in this psper will reach a good class of poplt. Is to Business what Steam is to Machinery, that great propelling power. This paper gives results. . E. HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. 'Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. VOL XXiV. New Series Vol. 11.-6-13 SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1908. NUMBER 10. EAh. OverWork Weakens Your Kidneys. Unlicaliby Sidneys Make Impure Blood. All the blood in your body passes through ycL.: kidneys once every three minutes. ,a,T;!i , me Kidneys are vour Diood puntiers. they fil ter cut the waste or impurities in ths blood. If they are sick or out cf order, they fail to do their vork. Pair.s, aches and rheu matism come from ex cels cf uric acid in tht L - O bleed, due to neglected V.ivr.ey trouble. Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady h?x.rt teats, and makes one feel as thougr ihty hii heart trouble, besauss the heart k over-working in pumping thick, kidney poLcned bk-ed through veins and arteries. !: u;;..d to be considered that only urinar trcc'-iies v. erc to ba triced to the' kidneys. no HiCdirn rcier.ee proves that nearly constitutional d-.Leases have their begin ning in kidney trouble. If you arc sick you can make no mistake by fin.: doctoring your kidneys. The mile er.i the era'.dinary effect cf Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidne remedy is s:--n re:i!i?.cd. it stands the highest for it: wanderful cures cf the r.-.ost distressing cases at: i is zAd on its m ;r:'s fT-'!V'v' by r.U crr.gguts ir. fifty- rCltt cc-r.t a:: :i one-dollar siz- f&S'$&'TV4&r&i-. e. Yc.i may have a Ufg Lol:!e by mail n.,me of s.-.-amKoot. frcs. a '.so pamphlftt telling you how to find oui i vcu have kidney or bladder trouble. Ml .Mien this papsr when writing Dr. Kilme: & Cr. . Blr.ch-rntcn, N. Y. 1'on't make any mistake, but re rn : i'er the nani Swamp Root, Dr. K'i u. i 's Swaiiip Root, and the address I".!'; r'l-'inton, N. Y., on every bottle. )"?. J. P. WiMSERLEY, Physician and Surgeon, Scotland Neck, N. C. Office on Depot Street. j)2. ft. C. LIVERMON, DENTIST. xfj!N Office up stairs in White iWr head Building. Office hours from 9 to 1 o'clock and 2 to 5 o'clock. H W. M1X0N, Refracting Optician, Watch Maker, Jeweler, En graver, Scotland Neck, N. C. j PIcBSYDE WEBB, Attorney and Counselor at Law, 219-221 Atlantic Trust Building Norfolk, Va. "Notary Public. Bell Phone 7G0 gDWASD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, Halifax, N. C. Money Loaned on Farm Lands LL H. JOSEY, General Insurance Agent, Scotland Neck, N. C. ii.D.josey Of Undertakers' Fall and Complete Line. Coffins and Caskets Burial Robes, Etc. Hearse Service any Time N. B. Josey Company, Scotland Neck. North Carolina I trz.:J in me neEU miu ohj vrnno, rain is congestion, pjuu is blood pressure nothing C1M U3Ually. At least, SO SHIS xir. auiaiv, prove il ho has created a little pink tablet, "ina tablet called Dr. Khoop's Headache tablet c.oy.xr;3 blood pressure away irom pain cumm-a. though safely, it surely equalizes the blood cxreue If you have a headache. It's blood presstrro. l ? . . - . . . . arm '-If ff If von r s'rr r.lpss. restless. nTVUS, it s blood cor, -.Hat ion blood pressure. That snrely is a certainty, for Dr. Shoop's Headache Tablets stop it in 20 minute?, and the tablets simply distribute tho unnatural blood pressure. . Bruise your finger, and doesn't it fret red, and svre'.l. and pain you? Of course it does. It s ton trwt:ci, blood pressure. You'll find it where paia It always. It's simply Common Sense. We sell at 1i ceata, and cheerfully rocomiae&a n. nrf I &, iH:i,KtjCltDfH and b:itil3 the nail, f'"?''" Qi3?zmrt!t a luxuriant growth. l--;'vu .-VSl.'evtr FailB to Eestore Gray U ';'?"-B-ai-' to Youthful Color, fev- t-Vi'T Cerc ca!p aitMwet Si hair falling. ''--:'-V5t?"1 g')?,andSI.jat Druggitfj Fl If Co Dr. Shoop's Headache ih... Tablets A. C. PETERSON. THE EDITOR'S LEISURE HOURS. Observations of Passing Events. A well informed farmer said to us this week that he believes corn is one of the greatest crops yet. And so it is. He said , . r almost every animal about the farm can Great is Corn. , , , J , ... . , be fed upo:i corn, and this is true. The people of the South generally have no true conception of the v alue of the corn crop. It has long been a wonder why the people in this part of the country will raise cotton and peanuts to the exclusion of all food crops for stock and team and then take their cotton and peanuts to market and trade them off for less corn than they could have made on the same land. Some will say that they can take the cotton and peanut money from ten or fifty acres of land and buy more corn with it than they can make on the same land. But where one man can work that plan with success and keep good and fat horses, ten will fail and keep common and poor horses. The time has not yet passed this season for planting more corn than usual. Only a few acres to the horse more than farmers have been planting will go a long way towards supplying the farms next year with corn enough to feed the teams, and the farmer who buys corn this year at the present high price ought to be able to appre ciate what such a condition means. Great is corn, and the sooner the farmers learn it the better for them. Tite Charlotte News makes the following timey observa tion concerning the prohibition campaign: "The fight which A Contest of Dignity. notable conflicts the people have ever been engaged in. Being as it is a non-partisan issue, men of all political persuasions have taken arms and entered the field against tha liquor traffic. The sweep of the prohibition wave throughout the Uuitel States is unparalleled. Scarcely a fight has been lost. Whether the issue was up for decision in the far North, or in the South or West, election returns have recorded victories of gigantic pro portions for the advocates of prohibition. No longer is the pro hibitionist looked upon as a long haired fanatic, for the pres ence in the fighting ranks of statesmen of national power and influence, governors, senators and men whose namss carry weight in the business world, has brought the personnel to that point where respect is commanded. Since the fight for white supremacy our own State has not witnesed such a battle as that which has been and is being waged. The leaders of the prohi bition movement are the most prominent men and officials of tho State, of all partie3. The good women, too, vhave done a noble service in moulding sentiment. In fact every influence has been cxeried, every stone upturned, evry moment of time vised, with the result that almost with one accord the people are demanding State prohibition." The prohibitionists have all good reasons for believing that they will carry the State for prohibition on May 25th. The liquor people have no idea of- defeating MaKe It Large. prohibition. Their leaders and workers are well aware that the people of the State have made up their minds to try prohibition. The evils of the liquor traffic have become so great and grinding in so many ways that the people have about reached the conclusion that they cannot stand it longer and nothing will satisfy them but a trial of prohibition, in the face of all the false reports about its failure in the States which have tried it. This the derstand, and so they have no against prohibition. But they do nssihlft in order to cut the prohibition majority down wherever thftv rnn.so that after the election has been carried and the State shall have gone under the prohibition law they may say that the majority was too small for the prohibitionists to claim sentiment behind it sufficiently strong to make the law effect ive and a success. Now, then, it behooves every friend of pro- lihit.inn to see to it that nothing sible radius'of his own influence bition majority a single vote. We want tue majority large, so !nv bot, no man can dare sav that the people of North Car olina have not loudly spoken on If we have thought the majority let us redouble our energies and for a maioritv of 11U V.' VLyv f W our diligence to make it seventy-five thousand; if we have tbnnfrbt. that nfiradventure with the prohibition majority may be errand effort during the next five c5 for those who are bound with the make the majority round up a hundred thousand. Yes, what ever may have been our estimates and hopes for the majority - . . i i i i up to this hour, let us see to it that it is larger man we uve yet planned. While there is certainty that the prohibitionists will carry the election, they need to mate me mujonty nnociWa tn make the victory all the more decisive now, and to forestall any claims by the that the temperance sentiment in the btate is not auugemtu sufficient to enforce the law. This feature of the contest is im portant and let it be urged all along the lines. To this end let every prohibitionist in the State be alert from now until elec tion day to bring every one to the polls and be doubly watch ful until the polls are closed to Tired nerves, with that "no ambi tion" feeling that ia commonly felt in spring or early summer, can be easily and quickly altered by taking what ia known to druggists everywhere aa Dr. Shoop's Restorative. One will abso lutely note a changed feeling within 48 hours after beginning to take the Res torative. The bowels get sluggish m the winter-time, the circulation often slows up, the Kidneys are inactive, and even the Heart in many cases grows decidedly weaker. Dr. Shoop's Resto rative is recognized everywhere as a genuine tonic to these vital organs. It 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, and am bition. Try it and be convinces, ouui J by A. C. Peterson. is now reaching its last stage, and its most intense, has been one of the most liquor people perfectly well un idea of carrying the election hope to muster all tiieir forces is left undone within a pos which can enlarge the prohi this question by their ballots. will be twenty-five thousand make it forty thousand; if we fifty thousand let us improve good work: all along tne line eighty thousand,let us make one days in tne cause ot ireeuom . -. n t ' 1 "1 shackles ot strong cinnh. ana liquor people after the election insure every vote pu33.uiC. Here comes the Spring winds to chap, tan and freckle. Use Pinesalve Car bolized (acts like a poultice) for cuts, sores, burns, chapped lips, hands and face. It soothes and heals. Sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co. Senor How did De Skip come to retire from the vauddeville stage? Senorita He said he thought he was a contortionist until he tried to dodge an automobile. Chicago News. ManZan Pile Remedy comes read ?o nee, put up in a collapsible tube witH nozzle attached. One application proves its merit. Soothes and heals, reduces inflammation and relives soreness and itching. For all forms of Piles. Pnc 50c. Guaranteed. Sold . by E. T. Whitehead & Co. ELD.HASSELL'S VIEWS Prohibition Principles Were Set Forth by God in the Decalogue. A DRUNKARD IS NOT FIT TO LIVE OR DIE A Convincing Argument in Favor of PronioitiOD In Ncrth Carolina. (Elder Hassell, in Gospel Messenger.) The prohibition of anything is the forbidding of it. The second law given by God to man was a pro hibition of his eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, it was a good law, and, if Adam and Eve had obeyed it, the fearful curse of sin and death would not, it seems, have befallen the human race. Eight of the ten commandments given by God to Israel at Mount Sinai were prohibitions (all of them except the fourth ar.d fifth, to keep the Sabbath and to honor parents). God says that these commandments were for the good of Israel (Deut 10:13): and, although our sinful na ture rebels against the law of God, Paul declared that the law is "holy, just and good." (Rom. 7:7-14). At present the word "prohibition" is generally used to denote the for bidding of the manufacture or sale of spirituous liquors. Without fear or favor, I shall present the certain facts on both sides of this subject, gathered from the latest and high est authorities, for the information and guidance of the readers of The Gospel Messenger. . The word rendered "wine" in the Scriptures means a liquor, either fermented or unfermented, made from the juice of grape; and the word rendered"strong drink"means a liquor made from any other fruit except the grape, or made from honey, especially old and powerful wine. Distillation is a product of modern "civilization," and was un known to the ancients and to sav ages. The excessive use of wine or strong drink is positively and re peatedly forbidden throughout both the Old and New Testaments Scrip tures, but their moderate use, both as a beverage and a medicine, is al lowed except to priests when about to serve in the tabernacle. (Levit. 10:9), and to those men or women who had taken the vow of a Nazar ite, a Separatist. (Num. 6:1-3); and it was entirely forbidden by Jonadab, j the son of Rechab.to all his descend ants, who were to be nomads or wan derers, living in tents, and not build ing houses, sowing seed, or planting vineyards (Jer. 35:6:10). The Re chabites were the descendants of Abraham and Keturah, and inter married with the Levites, and God blessed them to "stand before Him" or be His servants. They honored their ancestor Jonadab by obeying him, and they preferred their simple, free, sober, moral, healthful desert life to the unwholesome luxuries and ruinous vices of a corrupfcivil ization,"and they were the steadfast opponents of oppression, idolatry, and sensualty. It is an essential qualification of a gospel minister not to be"given to wine"(l Tim. 3-3; Ti tus 1:7). Wine and strong drink weaken and corrupt people physical ly, mentally and morally, and unfit them for. the service of God (Isa. 27:7). It has been said that greater calamities have been inflicted on mankind by drunkenness than by wars, pestilence, and famine; that 120,000 persons in Enerland and 100, 000 in the United States are killed every year by the drinking of spirit uous liquors; that the use of alcoho lic stimulants causes one-half of the pauperism and disease, one-third of the insanity and idiocy, and three fourths of the crime in "civilized" countries. Alcohol has been well called the "very genius of degrada tion;" taken in large quantities, it clots the blood, overworks the heart, dilates the capillaries, retards diges tion, ulcerates the stomach, substi tutes an unhealthy fat for healthy tissueschills the body, soon after being taken, two degrees below the normal temperature, so that its use has had to be discontinued in Artie expeditions, paralyzes the nerves, crazes the brain, debases the consci ence, opens the system to the attacks of disease, and propagates its evils to the third generation. It is a pois on, and more than twenty of the rankest poisons are used to adulter oto nnd color and expand it. The Baptists of the seventeenth century (who adopted the old London Con fession of Faith), excluded from their chuiches persons who sold spir ituous liquors, and those who drank to excesc. Elder William Gadsby, nf Ensland (born 1773 died 1844), author of the "Everlasting Task for Arminians'and of "The Perfect Law of Liberty," totally abstained from the use of spirituous liquors the last ten years of his life, though he never joined and Abstinence Society; and to a young man who waited on him in his last illness, he said, "Shun wine as you would shun the Devil." Elder Thomas Leland, of Massachu setts, (born 1756, died 1841), during the most of his life drank no spirits, but in his last years, on account of his advanced age and infirmities, he drank about a gallon a year, never taking more than a spoonful at a time, and that not often. My fath er, Elder C. B. Hassell, made, in his eighteenth year, five excellent reso lutions, to which he steadfastly ad hered through life to abstain from the use of intoxicating liquors, gam ing, and profanity, and to be strictly truthful, honest, and upright in all his dealings. I myself never go into a saloon for any purpose, and never drink spirituous liquors. O that all human beings would do the same ! It would make them far healthier, saner, calmer and happier, and en able them to improve their material condition, and to do more to relieve the widow and the fatherless, the destitute and the afflicted, and to devote more to education and reli gion. Societies, oaths, and laws are far les3 effective thn the knowledge and proper consideration of these momentous facts. It is said that there are 114,00 more saloons than churches in the United States, and that nearly two thousand million of dollars were spent last year in this country for alcoholic liquors more than enough to pay all the expenses of the Feder al government, executive.legislative, judicial, navy.army.postofnce, treas ury, and every other department. About fifty years ago a wave of pro hibition swept over many of the Northern States, but nearly all of these States after a while abandoned State prohibition, and adopted the license system or local option. A wave of prohibition, in the form of either State action or local option, is now sweeping over the South, so that, of the twenty million people in the fourteen Southern States, seven teen million in the North, or thirty six million people in the entire Union occupying two-thirds of the territory of the United States, are under pro hibitory liquor laws. Ten million have expelled the saloon by State action, and twenty-six million by lo cal option. It is claimed that con science, education, economy, and social peace and progress are the motives urging on prohibition in this country. Local option, being aided by public sentiment, is more effec tive than State prohibition. The Committee of Fifty(eminent sociolo gists) in New York have thoroughly investigated the matter, ascertained that rigid efforts to enforce prohibi tion laws generally lead to hypo crisy, bribery, curruption, and law breaking; and these evil results are likely to continue unless the laws re flect public sentiment, and unless Congress prohibits the importation of liquor from "wet" into "dry" territory, which the Judiciary Com mittee in the Senate thinks to be un constitutional, as restricting inter state commerce. But all the South ern States seem determined to try prohibition. If enforced, it may cause a decrease of drunkenness and of the poverty, disease and crime re sulting from drunkenness; but only the abounding grace of God in the heart can cure the thirst for strong drink and the love of other sin3, per fectly and forever. Temperance is not total abstinence, but is the mod erate and lawful use of the gift of Providence. All who can not use spirits temperately should never use them at all. A drunkard is not fit to work, to live, or to die; and a habitual mod erate drinker of alcoholic liquors is on the dangerous down-grade to dis ease, pauperism, degradation, crime and death. But let it not be supposed that total abstinence from spirituous liquors, though excellent in itself, will make a man perfect here on earth or prepare him for heaven. The Mohammedans are, according to the laws of their false prophet, total abstainers from alcoholic drinks, and yet they are hypocrites, thieves, robbers, debaunchers, and murderers. Every kind of virtue is good in its place; but true religion, the religion of God, is in the heart, and blossoms in the speech.and fruits in the life, reverences God, and bene fits man, and its possessor will be perfected in heaven. An honest man wishes to know "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" on any sub ject presented for his decision." S. H. DeWitt'8 Little Early Risers are emAll, safe, sure and gentle little pills. Sold by E. T. Whitehead Co. AUTOMOBILES AGAIN Directors of Office of Public Roads Conduct Some Experiments. MOTORS AT A MILE A MINUTE. Rubber Tired Vehicles Moving at High Speed Strip and Euln Soads. (Cor. toTh Ccmmon wealth.) Washington, D. C. A two ton racing autemobile mov ing at something in excess of a mile a minute, while an impenetrable cloud of fog-grey rock dust hung to the horizon and marked the speeding course of the big machine, was the sight witnessed by the travelers on the famous conduit road a dozen miles from Washington on Thurs day, April 23. The seemingly pronouced violation of the speed ordnances was counten anced by two of the Nation's feder al departments; Agriculture and War; however, the rushing motor car having been pressed into requisi tion by L. W. Page, Director of the Office of Public Roads, and Dr. Al lerton S. Cusham, Assistant Direc tor, in the effort to determine the efFects of automobile traffic upon macadam highways, and the stretch of thorougfare was placed at their disposal by War Department offi cials. While the racing car and others of various weights and types made many trips over the selected stretch of a mile and a half at varying rates of speed, from 5 to 65 miles an hour, a corps of skilled photographers, equipped with the most modern de vices for photographing vehicles at very high speeds, made accurate re cords of the various tests. It has long been known to high way engineers that automobiles were rapidly shortening the lives of the rock surface roads of the world, and many experiments have been made in the past six or seven years to de termine the actual cause of the dam age done. To understand how the soft broad tires of the modern motor car can work an injury to a surface that not only witstands, but im proves under the constant passing and repassing of vehicles with iron tires, one must be apprised briefly of the theory on which, first Tresauget of Limoges, and later MacAdam of Ayr, worked when giving such highways to the world. They reasoned that a road surfaced with bits of stone would improve under wagon traffic because the iron tires of the passing vehicles would constantly crush the stones and form rock dust particles; that those rock dust particles would not merely fill in all the interstices between the stones but would also form a surface dust binder; the wettings and roll ings tending to cement the dust into a shell-like surface and thus make the entire road one traffic-withstanding, water-shedding mass. They reasoned well and wisely. The macadam roads lived up to the theories of their inventors and im proved with the passing years until the advent of the automobile. It was but a short time after it came into vogue that highway engineers in all civilized lands learned that a new condition was confronting them and that established customs were being menaced. The trouble was quickly traced to the automobile and it was studied. It was soon noted that the soft rubber tire was the highway menace. It crushed no rock itself and therefore contributed no quota of the needful surface dust binder, while the tremendous trac tive force of the rear wheels drew up the dust made by the iron tired wagons and sent it whirling away over adjacent lands. Those who witnessed the experi ments of Thursday near the Nation al Capital could not doubt for a moment that the various road ex- I perts all over the world are correct in the opinion that very rapidly driven automobiles are rapidly tear ing up the surface of the macadam road, for not only were huge clouds of dust lifted into the air and blown off the road, but careful examina tion showed that the material under the wheel tracks of the machine was distinctly loosened and ravelled even during the short period of these tests. No such effects were noticeable after the passing of iron tired ve hicles; the series of tests beginning with the passing of a horse drawn vehicle. This was photographed as it moved along and also as the wagon tires passed a given mark. Then the automobiles were sent over the course. The first was a heavy weight touring car moving at five miles an hour. A series of pictures was made of that car on it3 many journeys at varying rates of speed until its max imum of 45 miles an hour was at tained. Then the work was taken up by the huge racer, which tore down the road first at a speed of 50 miles an hour, then at 55, 60, and finally at 65. It fairly lifted the road surfacing material as it sped along, regular ridges of rock dust rising in front of the rear wheela and floating away in blinding clouds. Other testa were made and other pictures taken of various types of heavy Limousine cars and runabouts. It is plainly noticeable and was com mented on that the automobiles when moving at the slow rates of speed equal to the speed made by horse-drawn vehicles made very little dust, the theory that fast speeding automobiles are responsible for road surface destruction being pretty thoroughly substantiated by these means. The results of this interesting bit of road work will be carefully studied and put together in a paper or papers to be presented to the In ternational Road Congress which will meet at Paris on October 11; for so far-reaching are the ravages of the automobile on the wonderful roads of France that that country has urged highway engineers of all lands to assemble at her gay metro polis in the fall to take up the prob lem and strive for a solution of it. Stops earuchn in two minutes ; tooth ache or pain of burn or pen Id in five minutes; hoarseness, one hour; mus cleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours Dr. Thomas Eclwtric Oil, mon arch over pain. One way to trim a hat would be to cut off about a foot all around. Toledo Blade Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples, rnshe, etc., arc due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bit ters is a cleansing blood tonic. Makes you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear xkinned. It has also been noted that the why-don' t-you-try type of questioner mighty seldom does himself. Puck. Weak women should read my "Book No. 4 For Women." It was written expressly for women who are not well. The Book No. 4 tells of Dr. Shoop's ".Night Cure" and just how theco soothing, healing, antiseptic supposi tories can be successfully applied The book, and strictly confidential medical advice is entirdy free. Write Dr. Shoop. Racine, Wis. Tho Night Cure is cold by A. O. Peterson. Mother You must not try to mo noplolize all the conversation. Ethel Must I wait till I'm married, mam ma? Yonkers. There is a Pink Pnin Tablet made by Dr. Shoop, that will positively stop any pain, anywhere, in 20 minutes. Druggists everywhere sell them as Dr. Shoop's Headache Tablets, but they stop other pains as easily as headache. Dr. Shoop's Tink Pain Tablets simply coax blood pressure away from pain centers that is all. Pain comes from blood pressure congestion. Stop that pressure with Dr. Shoop's Headache Tablet and pain is instantly gone. 20 Tablets 25c. Sold by A. C. Peterson. "Take home a box of candy or a bunch of flowers to-night." "What for? I'm sober." Louis ville Courier-Journal. A Certain Cure lor Aching Feet. Shake into vour shoes Allen's Foot- Ease, a powder. It cures Tired, Ach ing, Callous, Sweating, Swollen feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample Free. Address, Allen S. Olm sted, LeRoy, N. Y. "Don't be unscrupulous, my boy." I won't dad." "That is, don't be unscrupulous in a small way." Louisville Courier-Journal. NOTICE TO OUll CUSTOMERS. Wc are pleased to announce that Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs. colds and lung troubles is not a fleeted by the National Pure Food and Drug Law, as it contains no opiates or other harmful drug, and we recommend it as a safe remedy for children and adults. E. T. Whitehead Company. Fat Reporter Why was my story killed. Editor An act of mercy. You fell down on it first. Baltimore American. Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won't cure thern. Doan's Ointment cures itching, bleeding or protruding pile9 after yeara of suffer ing. At any drug store. "Don't you ever get Beasick?" asked the pretty Californian of the sailor. "Only when I'm ashore, miss," replied the tar. Philadelphia Ledger. Kidney complaint kills more people than any other disease. This is due to the disease being so insidious that it gets a good hold cn the system before it is recognized. Foley's Kidney Cure will prevent the development of fatal disease if taken in time. E. T. White head Company.